President Bush was only seconds into his State of the Union speech Tuesday night when we saw our first sign of blatant hypocrisy.
After Bush paid a lofty tribute to the late Coretta Scott King, Republicans and Democrats alike rose in applause. Behind the president, so did Vice President Cheney. He should have remained in his seat.
Perhaps Cheney would like everyone, including the TV viewers, to forget that as a congressman from Wyoming, his vote in 1979 against making Martin Luther King’s birthday a national holiday helped block the legislation.
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