I really didn’t want to watch President Obama’s Oval Office speech last night.

The last Oval Office speech I watched was the one George W. Bush gave on March 19, 2003 at the start of the invasion of Iraq. I remember thinking at the time, and telling others too, that he doesn’t care a whit about weapons of mass destruction or Saddam Hussein’s immorality or the dictator’s lack of regard for the rules of war. I don’t know whether it was his body language, or his facial expressions or tone of voice, but the impression he left with me is that he wanted very badly to invade Iraq, and all the rest was just excuse.

I was so disturbed by that speech that I refrained from watching any more Presidential addresses for the remainder of Bush’s Presidency, and, until last night, had refrained from watching any of Obama’s speeches, too.

However, I’ve been blogging (see here and here) lately about Obama’s incompetent and arrogant response to the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, so I thought I’d better tune in to the speech to hear what he had to say about it. Read more »