State of the Union Thoughts???

[chernmax]

Post your opinions...

 

[Pete]

I am sure Forestool will be here as soon as his handlers provide him the proper cut and paste material.

 

[ylexot]

Usual...some good, some bad.

 

[K_Jo]

I am sure Forestool will be here as soon as his handlers provide him the proper cut and paste material.

 

[Larry Gude]

Bush...

..much more Presidential than SOTU's past and less cowboy.

W looked rested. The Nancy thing is a great milestone in our nation.

 

[chernmax]

I am sure Forestool will be here as soon as his handlers provide him the proper cut and paste material.

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One day he'll be famous, DARWIN is a very prestigious award that only the top idiots are nominated for...

 

[chernmax]

Dick Cheney did look like he wanted to take Hillary hunting with that freakin face she made early in the Presidents address...

 

[SamSpade]

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One day he'll be famous, DARWIN is a very prestigious award that only the top idiots are nominated for...

Actually with Darwin, you not only have to die doing something stupid, you have to have left no progeny, hence the "Darwin" label - removing yourself from the gene pool.

Anyway, I thought it was among his better efforts. A little less drama, a little more realism. After having listened and been hopeful following Clinton's SOTU speeches - only to have all of the ideas vanish - I know that SOTU promises are like campaign promises. I think some of the weaning off of oil ideas are moving in the right direction. I'm not sure how the civilian thing with the military will work, but it sounds good initially - it frees up men from doing logistical work and doing what they were trained to do. Some other stuff that doesn't immediately spring to mind.

I think he acknowledged the fact that the war we're fighting now isn't the war we went in intending to fight. Recognition of that will help him. Whether or not this surge idea will work remains to be seen.

 

[chernmax]

Actually with Darwin, you not only have to die doing something stupid, you have to have left no progeny, hence the "Darwin" label - removing yourself from the gene pool.

Anyway, I thought it was among his better efforts. A little less drama, a little more realism. After having listened and been hopeful following Clinton's SOTU speeches - only to have all of the ideas vanish - I know that SOTU promises are like campaign promises. I think some of the weaning off of oil ideas are moving in the right direction. I'm not sure how the civilian thing with the military will work, but it sounds good initially - it frees up men from doing logistical work and doing what they were trained to do. Some other stuff that doesn't immediately spring to mind.

I think he acknowledged the fact that the war we're fighting now isn't the war we went in intending to fight. Recognition of that will help him. Whether or not this surge idea will work remains to be seen.

Well said.................

 

[Bustem' Down]

I didn't bother watching, it's always the same thing. Blah blah blah (stand up and clap) insert slogan here (stand up and clap). It's just more of a formality than anything. Besides, Dirty Jobs was new last night.

 

[chernmax]

I didn't bother watching, it's always the same thing. Blah blah blah (stand up and clap) insert slogan here (stand up and clap). It's just more of a formality than anything. Besides, Dirty Jobs was new last night.

The SOTU is a Dirty Job...

 

[punjabigyrl]

Sending extra troops is just not sitting well with me. One sect thinks they are above the other. The sectarian violence has been going on for 1400 hundred years. Heck infused in the genes so to speak and no policy or adding extra troops is going to stop that. I think this is a situation that the Iraqs' need to seriously deal with.

 

[chernmax]

Sending extra troops is just not sitting well with me. One sect thinks they are above the other. The sectarian violence has been going on for 1400 hundred years. Heck infused in the genes so to speak and no policy or adding extra troops is going to stop that. I think this is a situation that the Iraqs' need to seriously deal with.

Saddam tried, he picked the Sunni's and attempted to slaughter everyone else...

 

[ylexot]

The sectarian violence has been going on for 1400 hundred years. Heck infused in the genes so to speak and no policy or adding extra troops is going to stop that.

Ahmadinejad is blaming Bush for the sectarian violence :shrug:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3356154,00.html

"Sparking discord among Muslims, especially between the Shiites and Sunnis, is a plot hatched by the Zionists and the US for dominating regional nations and looting their resources," Ahmadinejad added, according to the report.

 

[punjabigyrl]

Ahmeddinejad is a certified dump azz. Anwyone that is out of touch with real world politics don't need to be in power and thrown in the deepest manhole ever.

 

[Bustem' Down]

Sending extra troops is just not sitting well with me. One sect thinks they are above the other. The sectarian violence has been going on for 1400 hundred years. Heck infused in the genes so to speak and no policy or adding extra troops is going to stop that. I think this is a situation that the Iraqs' need to seriously deal with.

The idea is to bolster the number of troops in Bagdad and make the entire city secure so that the Iraqi govt actually has time to get on it's feet and establish it's own control.

 

[chernmax]

The idea is to bolster the number of troops in Bagdad and make the entire city secure so that the Iraqi govt actually has time to get on it's feet and establish it's own control.

Looks like the Senate Armed services committee voted against the troop build up, thus threw a brick through that glass idea...

 

[punjabigyrl]

The Iraq govt are having thier own sectarian ho down. How is that going to stop the sectarian violence. We are not going to grip this extremely divided city. Unfortuanatley divided in every imaginable point.

 

[AndyMarquisLIVE]

For all you FOX fans:

11 PM P2+ (25-54)
Hannity & Colmes– 1,237,000 viewers (363,000)
Anderson Cooper – 853,000 viewers (309,000)
MSNBC Special Coverage – 978,000 viewers (491,000)
Mad Money– 142,000 viewers (a scratch with 44,000)
Showbiz Tonight – 298,000 viewers (141,000)

Is that MSNBC beating CNN AND FOX Nothing Channel at 11 in the 25-54?! FOX won in the nursing home demo :shrug:

http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2007/01/24/tuesdays-numbers-25/#more-4638

And a graphic of the 9-11pm EST ratings:
http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2007/01/24/sotu-ratings-comparison-chart/

 

[vraiblonde]

The Iraq govt are having thier own sectarian ho down. How is that going to stop the sectarian violence. We are not going to grip this extremely divided city. Unfortuanatley divided in every imaginable point.

We're fairly divided here in the good old USofA but we don't run around shooting people. Not most of us, anyway.