A blow-by-blow reaction to the State of the Union speech, just like real bloggers! (Keep hitting your refresh button.) [Note: This post was written in installments, appearing bottom-to-top. So if you want to read chronologically, go to the bottom and scroll up.]
7:03 pm - And he closes with a dramatic spreading of the arms. "Let us go forth..." Total theater, as was the whole thing. That's enough, this experiment is at an end.
7:00 pm - How long can this go on?
6:59 pm - From wars, real and threatened, he turns to international food aid. "Because we're a compassionate people." The American people are compassionate. It's Bush's policies that lack compassion. Or conscience.
6:55 pm - Here's the FISA bill. "If you don't act by Friday . . ." Calling out Congress. (More on FISA in a later posting -- interesting developments today.)
6:52 pm - We got about 30 seconds on Israel-Palestine then it's right off to Iran. And Iran. And Iran. Apparently, we have vital interests in their gulf.
6:43 pm - We're winning in Iraq! Predictably.
6:41 pm - The surge worked. Predictably. Interestingly, the surge wasn't an escalation, it was America rushing additional help to the Iraqis. Big of us.
6:36 pm - 9/11. Be afraid, be very afraid. "We will deliver justice to our enemies."
6:31 pm - OK, he's talking about faith-based intiatives, "armies of compassion" -- I'm going out for a smoke.
6:28 pm - Good lord, this is a boring speech. Here's something, though. Clinton has gotten two TV close-ups (by my count), Kennedy has one, and Obama has none, only a shared shot with Kennedy that came before the speech started.
6:20 pm - Actually, Cheney looks bored, as well. Probably anxious to get out of there and attack Iran.
6:19 pm - Hillary looks like she's bored. She looks like she's trying hard to look bored.
6:16 pm - He's talking about the importance of a balanced budget. This guy? The same guy who's gotten us in debt up to our ears with his criminal war?
6:14 pm - W warns Congress not to "load up" the economic stimulus package. Translation: no extension of unemployment benefits or expansion of food stamps.
6:07 pm - Obama and Kennedy are sitting together! How'd they arrange that?
6:05 pm - Elvis is in the House.
6:02 pm - Hoo boy. This isn't going to be easy. We haven't even started yet and Chris Matthews is talking about how much everyone likes Condi Rice and how she would be a great vice-presidential candidate. I thought political analysts were supposed to be paying attention.
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