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.

[Mo1]

OMG ... This speech just ROCKS!!!

[Maigrey]

An act of personal courage!

Tell Barb Boxer to Sit down!

[TADSLOS]

He's reading from a blog post on Iraqi elections!

[NautiNurse]

I call Biden " The Swami. " in honor of when he returned to Congress with his head swathed in white bandages, post hair plugs. I don't remember if he had a cobra in a basket, though.

ROFLMAO!

[BurbankKarl]

Was that Boxers talking to someone in that last shot.....she isnt giving the response is she?

[Wormwood]

ROFL!

[Dr.Zoidberg]

They don't need to fear purple fingers, they need to fear blackened faces with hemp ropes coming for them in the night.

Mullah Marionettes anyone?

[nicmarlo]

"Iragi's have earned the respect of us all"

[mylife]

fanfreekingtastic

[Ellesu]

The Dems will be passing the kool-aid tonight.

[silent_jonny]

Boxer was whispering to somebody: "Get the car ready!"

[onyx]

Right on.
That Syria stuff alone, nade my night!

[ChicagoRighty]

>> " in honor of when he returned to Congress with his head swathed in white bandages, post hair plugs. <<

Can you imagine that he thinks, occasionally, about running for Prez??? He would be haunted with those pics.

[SevenofNine]

Hey Doctor Zin where are you

Dubya just smack chat the Mullahs

[Aggie Mama]

Peggy Noonan I'm sure is saddened by his lack of softness. =) LOL.

[Fenris6]

Millions of Persians will be pleased with this speech...

"There is some justice in one charge that is frequently leveled against the United States, and more generally against the West: Middle Easterners frequently complain that the West judges them by different and lower standards than it does Europeans and Americans, both in what is expected of them and what they may expect, in terms of their economic well-being and their political freedom. They assert that Western spokesmen repeatedly overlook or even defend actions and support rulers that they would not tolerate in their own countries.

...But there is nevertheless a widespread [Western] perception that there are significant differences bewtween the advanced Western world and the rest, notably the peoples of Islam, and that these latter are in some ways different, with the tacit assumption that they are inferior. The most flagrant violations of civil rights, political freedom, and even human decency are disregarded or glossed over, and crimes against humanity, which in a European or American country would evoke a storm of outrage, are seen as normal and even acceptable.

...The underlying assumption in all this is that these people are incapable of running a democratic society and have neither concern nor capacity for human decency."

p104-5, The Crisis of Islam, Bernard Lewis

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

"Ah sh*t! He really is giving a great speech!!!!!"

Poor Senator Biden......HHehehehehehehe!

[missyme]

Why Purple finger? Although Purple and Pink are my favorites!

[DoughtyOne]

That's my read as well. How sad... and despicable!

[theDentist]

Dubya's getting Syrias!