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.

[HRoarke]

Bwahahhaahhaha! Now THAT is funny.

[silent_jonny]

Biden started clapping tap-tap-tap, but stopped when he realized he was alone HA!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

"Radicalism and ideologies of murder"

Are we talking about liberalism?

Sounds like it to me!

Got a book about the Leftists....

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Unholy Alliance
by David Horowitz
Regnery Publishing, Inc.; ISBN: 089526076X
Hardcover - 256 pages (September 2004)

In this tour de force on the most important issue of our time, David Horowitz, confronts the paradox of how so many Americans, including the leadership of the Democratic Party, could turn against the War on Terror. He finds an answer in a political Left that shares a view of America as the “Great Satan” with America’s radical Islamic enemies. This Left, which once made common cause with Communists, has now joined forces with radical Islam in attacking America’s defenses at home and its policies abroad. From their positions of influence in the university and media culture, leftists have defined America as the “root cause” of the attacks against it. In a remarkable exploration of the “Mind of the Left,” Horowitz traces the evolution of American radicalism from its Communist past to its “anti-war” present. He then shows how this Left was able to turn the Democratic Party presidential campaign around and reshape its views on the War on Terror.

Horowitz’s Unholy Alliance, writes John Haynes, the noted historian of American Communism, “is an insightful, brilliant examination of the mental world of the radical left. Horowitz shows how today’s radicals, unwilling to reflect on the internal flaws that destroyed Marxism-Leninism from within, have embraced an all-consuming nihilism in its place. This has led them to a hatred of American institutions and a solidarity with Islamic terrorists that makes the radical left more properly regarded as dangerous than loony.”

Unholy Alliance is an eye-opening book that should unsettle conventional assumptions and reveals why intellectuals and political leaders who applaud Michael Moore are no laughing matter. As Harvey Klehr, author of Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, writes, “The world Communist movement may be moribund, but its habits of mind and ideological fantasies have not disappeared. This is a fascinating and depressing account.”

Price: $19.01 - Click here to order:

[servantoftheservant]

...."in the coming years, we will add to that story." Someone in Damascus's bowels just emptied.

[highflight]

well it is now that we have a President with the courage to fulfill our Founders' ideals

[Volunteer]

"Wow! he just called out zarqawi!

Please God, let him end with, "Oh and we killed Zarqawi about 2 hours ago."

[lawgirl]

WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWO Mideast Peace!!

W has now eclipsed all I could imagine----he has all these ideas and they actually could happen. All clinton ever did was TALK- I listen to w and think "Yes it is possible!!"

[Terriergal]

ARE you listening IRAN...BE VERY AFRAID!!!

I'm sure theyr'e all in their little hovels gathered around the community TV in silent hateful dread.

[kellynch]

I can wait to get back to the debate with Mark Green

Mark Green???? He lives near me, and I see him on the street periodically. He's just as sickening in person as he is on TV.

[theDentist]

The DUmmies must be going mad over there....

[NorCalRepub]

Rummy always looks like he got the cogs working all the time......plotting and watching.....lol

[andrew2527]

There is a lot of purple on the right side of the aisle. Awesome!

[mtngrl@vrwc]

"That it is. Bush has truly turned out to be one of the greatest Presidents of our life-time. I love this guy. "

Dittos. I couldn't have said it better.

[July 4th]

$350 million for others to burn American flags...

[steveegg]

$350 million to support Palestinian reform and peaceful goals. whoa...

There better be a lot of titanium cables attached to that money.

[Howlin]

That's an impossibility.

[Soul Seeker]

OMG! Calling out Saudi and Egypt!

[cajungirl]

This man is no lame duck. I swear, he is incredible tonite. I have never seen him so strong, so sure, so honest and he has the "vision thing" down pat.

[cyborg]

Iran, Saudi Arabia,Sudan... SUDAN Mr.President... plus throw Taiwan a little bone.