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.

[winodog]

I sold rocks for a penny

pennys were called bumblebees then

because they had bumbleebees on them.

I had a skateboard but a boy named Devin stole it but he gave it back last week at lunch.

[sinkspur]

Brutal truth? You're just a run-of-the-mill, naysaying racist.

Trashing the Iraqis for their efforts during the war naturally follows from trashing Mexicans.

I'm Polish. I'm sure there's something in your hate-bag for me.

[Wormwood]

The Republicans are raising hell in the hall outside the studio---LOL!

[sam_paine]

Anybody that starts a speech with, "I was born....", is

Bet he ends it with "Bush is like Hitler" thus losing the argument according to FR rules!

[Dog]

Harry just dissed the President.

[woofie]

Very moving speech

[commonguymd]

yammering about groundhog day? I think. LOL.

[JohnBDay]

Hey, Reid watches movies!

[lawgirl]

That really was emotional. I am so glad to know I'm not alone because I work with a lot of demonrat animals that leave me feeling alone in my love for W. :)

[Fenris6]

"OH NOOOO The dems"

DEMOCRATS ARE BIGOTS

"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 between 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

[Terriergal]

GROUND HOG DAY LOL!!!!

[DaveMSmith]

It's Groundhog Day! ... whatta shlub

[HRoarke]

Did you know John Kerry served in Vietnam?

[Howlin]

He's saying that what we heard tonight was the same old ideology?

[Endeavor]

hand this sad old man a piece of cheese to go with his wine. Can't wait to see what "botox mama" has to say.

Can you believe Reid just said what we heard tonight was "Groundhog Day." You people are just d*mn ostriches, Harry.

[sweetiepiezer]

Ok where is the picture of the groundhog.

You know today is ground hog day Children.

[GW and Twins Pawpaw]

If Algore, who invented the Internet, had won the election in 2000, we would not be seeing this happen...

[Mo1]

It's best not to listen

Harry is telling Americans they are stupid .. but the Dems will save them

Because he grew up in a town call Search Light

OMG ... Harry say today is Ground Hogs Day and that this speech was like the movie

[Mr. Mojo]

Reid: "Democrats believe that all Americans should receive a first-class education."

You had eight years ('92 - '00) to accomplish that, or at least to put us on the road. Alas, you did neither. .....and never will.