Posted on 02/02/2005 3:43:44 PM PST by Timeout
The pre-spin: Bush will spend about 1/2 the speech on foreign policy, 1/2 on domestic, with heavy emphasis on Social Security reform. It's said he will provide a detailed tutorial on the SS system and its problems with a few details on his personal accounts proposal.
Laura's guests are said to be an Afghan voter and an Iraqi voter (too bad there's no Ukrainian wearing an orange hat!).
Should we start a drinking game on how many times the pool camera swings to Hillary? Hmmm. Probably not...it would likely hamper out typing ability.
Word on the blogs has it that the closing part of the speech is a hum-dinger. Set your VCR's.
Report here on outrageous MediaCrat spin before AND after the SOTU. Pictures and screen caps welcome.
No, Joe. I think you speak for people, who you don't *represent*. I NEVER want to be included in your *our*.
You live in a different universe.
Great idea! Ron, jr is Nancy's child and she adores him obviously..I would never get between a mother and her cub.
I just hate the fact he is only allowed on TV because he is who he is and is so overtly anti Bush. I hate it because I honor his father.
listen......there were two women who were kind of insulting her and after a couple of posts I simply asked them why they were still posting on her after a week.......that is all......and her history is very pro Republican and conservative.....just last week Larry Kudlow and another Repub were talking about how they disagreed with her comments but how wonderful and supportive she has been over the years and espeically after 9/11.....in my life I would like to be judged on my whole life then on the stupid small things that occured in it
LOL>......that she does!
David Frum: Bush at his Best [SOU Reaction]
It’s too often assumed that flowery rhetoric is powerful rhetoric. The reverse is more like it. A determined message delivered in clear, unmistakable words packs more punch than a namby-pamby message wrapped in fine phrases.
That's where I almost lost it. I was in the car, listening to ABC Radio. The news guy came on after the speech and said that the sustained applause was when Sgt. Norwood's mom stood up to acknowledge the President, and the Iraqi woman got up and hugged her, and they were both crying. THEN I lost it.
See if you spot what's wrong with THIS paragraph:
The emotional highpoint of last night's event came near the end when Bush introduced the parents of a U.S. Marine from Texas, Sgt. Byron Norwood, who was killed in the assault on Fallujah, Iraq. As Norwood's mother tearfully hugged another woman in the gallery, the assembled senators and representatives responded with a sustained ovation, and Bush's face appeared creased with emotion......
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Did you catch it?
(WHO did she hug?)
There will always be those on FR who come to the defense of those "loyal republican...LOL" who seek to destroy this president. I've been on this board for a long time, and I can remember a woman who was once here, who used to defend every "republican" who spoke up against this president. She defended them all. One particular night I got into with her about Bill Krystol who she was defending.
Agreed. Michael is more like Ronald Reagan than Ronnie Jr. is. Both of Ron and Nancy's children are off-center. Both of Ron and Jane Wyman's children turned out better.
Maybe this has been answered (I'm still working my way through the thread), but Mrs. Norwood gave the Iraqi woman her son's dogtags.
Maybe she just did like we all do a lot of the time--her thoughts just didn't make it to the keyboard like they were in her head! I would give her the benefit of the doubt unless she continues to go off on the Prez! Then......!!!!!!
Yes, way back. That was then, this is now;
72% of the population came off the sidelines and participated by voting in the election. 100,000 security forces are now training. 272 representatives have now been elected.
They are all risking their lives for their new found freedom. They are all fighting their fight.
Thanks :)
My baby turned eight today & we were out to dinner..her choice.
A friend who was watching the SOTU with an Iraqi friend writes during e-mail correspondence to me tonight:He's been ecstatic for days now. it's hard to explain what life is like for iraqis right now. i think it's full of overwhelmingly emotional moments like that one [the hug]. he told me of some of his aunt who lives in a very bad (read: terrorist-infested) area of Baghdad. she is a widow (and a Sunni)- her husband was killed by Saddam. All night the imam at the mosque was broadcasting not to vote, how it is against islam to vote. in the morning she got up and went to her neighbor's house and told her friend she was going to vote. These two women left together. When they came back with their blue fingers they could see their neighbors peeking out from behind curtains. Soon after, people started streaming out of their houses and soon everyone from their neighborhood went off to vote.he told me also how iraqis who before had been terrified of being identified as pro-American and therefore hadn't so much as looked up when passing soldiers on the street were suddenly handing out candies to them. they now get why we're there. i don't think they believed it before. so yes- the hug was amazing- and an important symbol of what is happening.
This guy just grows the longer he's in office. Amazing.
including in Washington
Are we supposed to hold hands now?
Good grief.
haha.....ya I wonder who these people are.....again you are not getting it.....I came to defense of not judging her for those comments but to look at her whole life in politics. And you are right, there are many here that only go with the party line........that is not me....I've criticized the Pres over immigration and his over spending...I've sided with McCain (who many don't like here) when I thought he was right. In fact, the thing I hate next to the liberal haters and name callers are those on here that do exactly the same thing against anyone that is not a the conservative they think they should be......calling everyone RINO's or traitors.........that crap is narrow minded intolerance and I hate that as much as the DUmmies
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