STATE OF THE UNION -- 2005 [Live Thread]

2/2/05

[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.

[RonDog]

C-Span is on now.

That would be:

http://www.c-span.org/watch/cspan_rm.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS

[section9]

Last year, Morris confronted Rice in a Fox Green Room about the 2008 race. She responded sternly, "I am not running".

Notice the present tense.

I submit to you that this individual's mind works on several levels, and as it is a feminine mind, it works on a spatial and intuitive relationship level that women understand immediately but men take some time to catch on.

Hillary Clinton is a prisoner of her age and her losing battle with gravity. I don't hold that against her. I do hold her ambition against her. She is simply not Presidential material, but her ambition allows her to surround herself with toadies and sycophants who want West Wing offices. Her husband could do the job. She couldn't.

Rice is another thing altogether. Her sense of timing and control is impeccable. She understands relationships as men do not. She understands that Clinton was probably behind the trouble she had two weeks ago. But she is patient, and she will work on several levels to achieve her objective. And she knows who her enemy is.

To Condoleezza Rice, her body and her sense of fashion are not simply assets, they are weapons.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[Next_Time_NJ]

502 posts already and he hasnt spoken a word.. my god.. lol

[mylife]

good luck

[SeaBiscuit]

Then you need a wireless router and a wireless nic.

[gopwinsin04]

Jumpin Jim Jeffords sits all alone at his desk looking at his notes..lol!

[maine-iac7]

I think I read somewhere that the Presidents speech will be repeated again at 11 pm EST?

[Howlin]

Matthews is so clueless; imagine hopiing people mock a POTUS who has been as victorious as Bush has.

WHAT IS THE OBSESSION WITH AN EXIT PLAN?????

I guess the "exit plans" for Bosnia, Vietnam, WWI, WWII, and Korea are all filed away with the homeless, the solvent Social Security, etc.

[BigSkyFreeper]

The mouse and keyboard I am using is from Micro Innovations.

[hispanarepublicana]

I just need to find a teeny Keyboard to integrate with my Ipaq so It won't look like my cat is doingthe typing.

[Txsleuth]

Both of my children are in their 20's and have 401Ks at work and would LOVE to be able to have part of their Soc. Security in private accounts, partly because they don't think there will BE any money for them when they retire from SS.

[Timeout]

I'm confident we're all dying to know one thing about the speech:

WILL HE REACH OUT TO THE DEMOCRATS?!

LOL!

[steveegg]

502 posts already and he hasnt spoken a word.. my god.. lol

The Over/Under on the number of posts before Word One is now at 795 (and I've got the over :-)

[mylife]

by the way.. my brother refers to MS as Microshaft as well!

[Choose Ye This Day]

I agree with bah. The Iraqis were the voters dodging mortars and potential suicide bombers. It's their freedom. Let's let them have their symbol.

[Miss Marple]

Here come the seantors to the house. Cheney leading the way.

[Howlin]

Don't I have a NIC card already?

[AVNevis]

"when they retire from SS."

They work for Social Security?

[silent_jonny]

Hillary Clinton is a prisoner of her age and her losing battle with gravity.

LOL--literally.

[bahblahbah]

The problem with that is that it may just turn into a lame partisan stunt that would take away some of the value of the symbolism away from the Iraqis. Its risky and I think it reeks of attention whorishness.