Posted on 01/20/2004 4:01:54 PM PST by Hillary's Lovely Legs
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President Bush will deliver the annual State of the Union this evening at 9:01pm (Eastern Time). The speech will be webcast live on the White House web site.
The President will discuss the extraordinary challenges our country has faced and the historic achievements we have made. Yet he will also stress that there.s much more for our country to do:
"America this evening is a Nation called to great responsibilities. And we are rising to meet them " "We have not come all this way through tragedy, and trial, and war only to falter and leave our work unfinished. Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us." He will also remind the American people that we are a Nation still at war, and our government is meeting its responsibility to protect the American people: "Our greatest responsibility is the active defense of the American people. Twenty-eight months have passed since September 11, 2001 over two years without an attack on American soil and it is tempting to believe that the danger is behind us. That hope is understandable, comforting and false."
"...America is on the offensive against the terrorists..." "As part of the offensive against terror, we are also confronting the regimes that harbor and support terrorists, and could supply them with nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons " "...Because of American leadership and resolve, the world is changing for the better " He will discuss the progress were making in Afghanistan and Iraq, and renew our commitment to ensuring those countries are free and peaceful: "The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror " "The work of building a new Iraq is hard, and it is right. And America has always been willing to do what it takes for what is right."
On priorities here at home, the President will discuss why hes optimistic about our growing economy, and call on Congress to take action that will help turn our economic recovery into a lasting recovery. He will call on them to help train Americans for the jobs of the 21st Century: "Americas growing economy is also a changing economy. As technology transforms the way almost every job is done, America becomes more productive, and workers need new skills We must respond by helping more Americans gain the skills to find good jobs in our new economy." President Bush will also discuss the importance of health care and the major cause for why Americans lack health insurance: the rising costs of health care. "On the critical issue of health care, our goal is to ensure that Americans can choose and afford private health care coverage that best fits their individual needs. To make insurance more affordable, Congress must act to address rapidly rising health care costs." Finally, the President will argue that in a time of great change in our country and world, the things that make our country strong should never change: "We are living in a time of great change Yet some things endure courage and compassion, reverence and integrity, respect for differences of faith and race. The values we try to live by never change. And they are instilled in us by fundamental institutions, such as families, and schools, and religious congregations. These institutions the unseen pillars of civilization must remain strong in America "
"All of us parents, schools, government must work together to counter the negative influence of the culture, and to send the right messages to our children."
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"The President shall from time to time give to Congress information of the State of the Union and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient." Article II, Sec. 3, U.S. Constitution • History • State of the Union - 2003
Q1. What President delivered the first State of the Union Address?
George Washington
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January 20, 2004
Communications Director Dan Bartlett discussed this year's State of the Union.
January 19, 2004
Author/Historian Richard Norton Smith discussed the history of the State of the Union address.
So nice for somebody to prove my point for me. Thanks!
Thank you Ray "Bubba" Sorenson
I'm glad I yanked your cranium from a chiropractic interanus nightmare. The rescue didn't give you a lick of any real intutiy, however.
Of course women are intimidated around here. This is like any other community, real life or online. Women have a heightened awareness of "stuff" in their contributions, responses and "security sense" than men do. Women have ideas, opinions and epiphenies ... OHHHHH MAMAMMMAAA do they have those things! Our everyday loving communiques say so with a QUICKNESS ... but they're not going to go into "enemy territory" as novices on a new website and share them.
This forum is chock full of male assholes right now. Everybody has a grievance, everybody's a victim, it's all a fellowship of screwy men who blame Bush. Great, not many insights gleaned from this moleman crew. The women have ideas and a HALF ... but are they gonna come out?
FR is severely lacking right now in that area IMO. We have amazing female professors, historically important Marine vets, marvelously successful business women, professors, world travelers, great moms and grammas etc etc etc who are NOT jumping into the fray when the 11th corncob suppositoried idiot says "Bush has betrayed America. There's no more America".
Yeah, it's online, but they're not going to enter some cyberspace milieu where dismal old men are engaging in bitter life workouts. They can hang with their mumbling husbands for that! :^)
Don't ever underestimate the import of security for women in cyberspace and life. It's our most sacred obligation as men to provide that comfort.
It's severely lacking on FR. Right now, IMO.
I am all for guestworker {{no applause}} I am against amnesty {{no one believed it}} {{no applause}}
Me too, I am still a conservative, I just look at him from a different 'angle' now
And better insults, like facts to the Dims, than hill and her crusty clothes, talk about being fed up with something on threads, damn like heard that for 6 years now -g-
Ok -g- your post is # 281 and the hill clothes are running like 100 + Hilliary's clothes 100 + worried about bashing I am glad I didn't join this live, because I would've laughed even more than I am now. I am still waiting for the 'relative' info about the SOTU from ALL sides.
What is so hard for people to grasp that anti-illegal/immigration is 'only' anti-Bush two ways: 1. Bush himself makes it so 2. All of you complain that it is anti-Bush and are wrong {{smiling}}
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