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February 06, 2005
Four More Long Winters?
Writing for the Argentine daily La Nación, Mario Diament notes that the 2005 State of the Union Address fell on Groundhog Day. He spends several paragraphs telling his readers about Punxsatawney Phil, the groundhog's shadow, and Bill Murray, etc., then concludes what is otherwise a light feature with a slap at the current administration (translated from the original Spanish):
Those who are accustomed to following statistics didn’t miss the fact that in the last four years the groundhog has seen his shadow every time he came out of his hole, and the winters have been inevitably long. A similar feeling must have been experienced by the audience that attended the State of the Union Address, which President George W. Bush gave that night in Congress. Nobody knows if Bush saw his own shadow, but all fear that what it predicts is an overly long winter.
Posted February 6, 2005 08:37 PM
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