Normally I would be glued-in but I gotta host a bingo show; I'll probly catch the late night replay on CSPAN before passing out in a drunken stupor.

Hee hee...if a camera hits you, shout out "Diggity!" or some shit.

i don't think he gets politics

Is anybody else snoring as much at this speech as I am....same old, same old....he's just trying to cover his ass

Yeah...I didn't hear too much of the speech, but I flipped over during commercial breaks in the Royals game 3-4 times. And I didn't hear ONE line that I hadn't heard before. It was all recycled stuff.

I sat there thinking "THIS is the speech that's supposed to bring the poll numbers back up?"

I was in and out of the room, but we're putting up a german co-worker for the week, and he watched the whole thing. I asked him what W said, and he paraphrased it excellently. I mean he was just spot-on. It was hilarious. We then had a discussion as to whether W's assertion that Iraq is the kingpin in a ring of evil over there (and if we fail in Iraq, the following day there will magically be WW3) could possibly fail internal Whitehouse comparison to the tragically flawed Dominoe Theory that got us into Vietnam.

Those germans are sharp. Homey had been off the plane for all of about 2 hours.

The other thing I noticed is that he really, really seemed to be pandering to the soldiers in the crowd. Which I found repulsive.

I woke up this morning to the MSNBC commentator saying Bush said something about "Sacrifice."

I LAUGHED.

I don't quite get where he comes off saying that our generals say we don't need more troops...everything I've read has said that they do. But then again, I don't have cabinet meetings and don't hear what he does.

His talk of "spreading tolerance" is funny while he at the same times supports discrimination against homosexuals.

Some of the speech was great though, particularly the ending. Somewhat inspiring for a Bush speech.

The over-under stated on here about the Iraq-Al Qaeda link was correct. He said it five times in 28 minutes. That is not only completely pathetic it is utterly hysterical. Though I would have liked to see one of the many classic Richard Nixon speeches with Sacrifice and comparing Communism to cancer over a Dubya speech too.

I was in and out during the whole speech, but did I hear him correctly, when he subtly encouraged people who were watching to join the military?

Oh, there was no subtlety about it. He said joining the military is the highest possible calling for any American.
Glad he straightened out the hierarchy for all the doctors, teachers and scientists out there who were a little fuzzy about their place in the order of righteousness.
What an ass.

I know that nothing productive will come of this, but here goes...



Pathetic and hysterical...how so?

because al-queda didnt supply iraq with chemical weapons.....the united states did

This was the only part I heard, and quickly turned it to something else. Since when did being a jarhead become the most meaningful profession? I've known plenty of guys in the military that learned to tie their shoes after boot camp.

Perpetuating a falsehood to exploit fear and ignorance in order to raise support for the war is a pretty shitty thing to do.