State of the Onion

[aoxamaxoa]

Poll: While preparing speech, Bush faces sour mood
"Americans see the president as likable, decisive and strong -- but also stubborn. Only a minority think he is honest -- 44 percent, down from 53 percent two years ago."

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/22/stateofunion.appoll.ap/index.html?section=cnn_latest

44%? Who might these people be? Nobody who believes in truth and honesty and the American way....
Definately, a few from around these parts. Strangely silent on these forums lately. Hell, they don't even bother taking my bait. No watching tonight. These fools use this annual opportunity to trick those 44%ers into kool aid drinking sheep.

Lame ducks? Dead dogs...

[aoxamaxoa]

sad but funny....
Bush's State of the Union Address to be Simulcast in English
President Hopes to Reach Broader Audience, Aides Say

For the first time since he was elected president of the United States, George W. Bush's State of the Union address tonight will be simulcast in English, the White House confirmed.

With the public unenthusiastic about the president's plan to send a "surge" of troops to Baghdad, the decision to simulcast the speech in English was widely seen as an attempt by Mr. Bush to make an appeal to a broader audience.

"The majority of people in this country are English speaking, and quite frankly, we can't afford to ignore them any longer," White House spokesperson Tony Snow said. "Hopefully, by doing the English simulcast, we'll be reaching out to a lot of those folks."

Once the decision was made earlier in the month to launch the historic first English simulcast of a speech by President Bush, then began the hard work of translating the text of the address from Mr. Bush's language into English.

Davis Logsdon, a professor of linguistics at the University of Minnesota, was one of several scholars approached to do the translation who ultimately quit in frustration.

"The problem is that the language the president speaks, by most measures, is not a language at all," Professor Logsdon said.

In his speech, President Bush is expected to downplay setbacks in Iraq and will instead highlight the accomplishments of his six years in office, including his historic decision to cancel the agreement between nouns and verbs.


sorry, no link....was sent to me by another concerned and loyal American.

[Steve]

Saw on the TV today that Bush's approval rating was down to 28%, the second lowest only to Nixon's 24% during the height of the Watergate affair.  I plan on watching the speech tonight, if only to see the reaction of Congress to his comments.

[Steve]

quote:Originally posted by aoxamaxoa

In his speech, President Bush is expected to downplay setbacks in Iraq and will instead highlight the accomplishments of his six years in office, including his historic decision to cancel the agreement between nouns and verbs.

Now that's funny, sad because it is so true, but funny.  I always thought Bush was the absolute most illiterate, inarticulate public speaker of any president we have ever had in my 50 year lifetime.

[Double A]

Can't wait for fightin' Democrat Senator Jim Webb to give 'em hell and deliver a knock out punch with the Democratic response.

[Chicken Little]

Man, Webb punches hard.  I suppose if I had a boy over there, I would too:

Transcript

quote: Like so many other Americans, today and throughout our history, we serve and have served, not for political reasons, but because we love our country. On the political issues ­ those matters of war and peace, and in some cases of life and death ­ we trusted the judgment of our national leaders. We hoped that they would be right, that they would measure with accuracy the value of our lives against the enormity of the national interest that might call upon us to go into harm's way.

We owed them our loyalty, as Americans, and we gave it. But they owed us ­ sound judgment, clear thinking, concern for our welfare, a guarantee that the threat to our country was equal to the price we might be called upon to pay in defending it.

The President took us into this war recklessly. He disregarded warnings from the national security adviser during the first Gulf War, the chief of staff of the army, two former commanding generals of the Central Command, whose jurisdiction includes Iraq, the director of operations on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and many, many others with great integrity and long experience in national security affairs. We are now, as a nation, held hostage to the predictable ­ and predicted ­ disarray that has followed.

The war's costs to our nation have been staggering. Financially. The damage to our reputation around the world. The lost opportunities to defeat the forces of international terrorism. And especially the precious blood of our citizens who have stepped forward to serve.

[aoxamaxoa]

^"If he does, we will join him. If he does not, we will be showing him the way."

Awesome. Now that is leadership!

[aoxamaxoa]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqE_baKKkRI

The real SOTU!

"If your net is not with us, it's against us..."

Perfecto!

"What goes around stays around...."

[Double A]

Move over Obama, there's a new rock star in town. His name is Jim Webb.

[aoxamaxoa]

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/01/30/olbermann-special-comment-fact-checking-the-president/

Fact Checking the President
4 lies during this years speech.....

"I am indebted to David Swanson, press secretary for Dennis Kucinich's 2004 Presidential campaign, who has blogged about the dubious 96 words in Mr. Bush's address this year and who has concluded that of the four counter-terror claims the President made, he went 0 for 4."