WASHINGTON D.C. (January 22, 2005) - Two days after the inauguration, the White House unexpectedly released a previously unpublished attachment to President Bush's inaugural speech. Scott McClellan, the White House spokesman, explained that the attachment was always "an integral part of the President's speech" but was not included in the "spoken" speech on Thursday, because of the "time constraints".
While President Bush's speech received high mark from the population for its "visionary and philosophical values," there were numerous complaints from different corners. The American mainstream media complained that "Iraq" was not mentioned, not even once. As far as the international reaction was concerned, the European Union has issued a strong statement immediately after the speech, denouncing President Bush's complete negligence of "Europe" in his speech. The statement said, Europeans, "whether we belong to the old or new Europe, the cultural or condescending, the mature or childish Europe," deserved at least one mentioning in the speech. Senator John Kerry expressed full support of the European Union in a phone call to the New York Times this morning. "Not only Europe," President Bush should have mentioned "especially France and Germany" in his speech. Senator Boxer told reporters "although I like John, Jacques and Gerhard", President Bush should have mentioned "California and the Ohio voter fraud" before anything else. In the latest development, Dan Rather of CBS News just reported that Kofi Annan, the U.N. Secretary General, has suspended all contacts with the U.S. government until President Bush agrees to mention the "U.N." at least five times in his next speech.
According to Scott McClellan, the White House spokesman, all the protests would be moot if people had a chance to study the attachment, which has been posted on the Internet. We have studied this giant document since last night, and found that "Baghdad" was mentioned 215,623 times, "My dear friend Jacques Chirac" 12,545,237 times and "sushibashibu" 235 times. We are still consulting with our Japanese language expert to find out exactly what it means.
