Address

Presidential Address

904- Stop smirking. Is that tie indigo? Someone put on too much blusher on him before the camera’s started rolling

905- Our tomorrow starts today. Hmmm…Taoist

906- That wrinkle between his eyes is getting very deep. Stress. I never noticed how much he looks like a bird

907- You can see his eyes moving as he reads the teleprompter

908- bored

909- Oh a truth! Yes, the troops are extraordinary. See new banner above if you agree.

910- Christmas time. How sentimental. One question: have you really accomplished everything you wanted to? We’ll get back to this later.

912- Return upon success. The more successful we are, the more troops to come home. Hmmm…OMG WTF are you saying???? That didn’t even make sense!

913- Engagement beyond the of Bush. (See below for when that ends.) Like Korea. Thomas Ricks actually thought this was an okay thing. It prevents the looming human rights disaster of major civil war and genocide. ... A free Iraq. A free Iraq. A free Iraq. Hmmm…smacks of MLK and “free at last free at last.” Bastard speech writers and their Civil Rights leaders allusions. (And illusions.)

914- Oo, there it was. September the eleventh evoking. I still don’t see how going into a country that everyone has confirmed has nothing to do with 9/11 has helped us be safer. Because it quite obviously hasn’t. It has in fact weakened us.

916- "Iraq neighbors- lemme gib u a shout out. Stay cool, yo. Keep enduring Iraqi refugees' influx due to my complete mismanagement. And the innahnashunuls-waddup waddup waddup. Ken a brothuh git a han’ here!"

917- "You are serving far from hom-ah." Like a preacher. Here comes the anecdote about a fallen solider. And then the letter from the parents. The way he read it, as if he were actually reading it. It was like a terribly staged play. And the parents who say, “Freedom isn’t free,” like a country song. I know a SHITLOAD more parents and family members of fallen soldier who are duly irate.

917- And it's over. The end. Number of truths: 1 (soldiers good services). Number of 9/11 references: 1. Number of countries in the coaltion: 37 (Really? Where? I'm sure the Amer military would like to know where those other countries are.) Number of lies: 10000000000, as ever.

And Democratic Response, from Jack Reed of RI (an army vet with a serious Rhode Island accent. Coooowafee .)

Anyway, here we go.

920- Here here! to everything you're saying. Yep, no real change has happened. Yep, only clear and achievable missions should be waged.

921- "Any foe on battlefield can be defeated by our soldiers. But our Iraq problems are POLITICAL." Excellent point.

922- Yep, in the middle of another civil war. Redefine mission in Iraq. Change course. Health care mentioned at 2 minutes in.

923- Diplomacy. Hm. Novel....Rapid redeployment---I worry about that. The ensuing chaos to follow and all.

924- Oh, join us. Oh, urging American people.

924- Missions worthy of our sacrifices. Yep yep.

MSNBC coverage

Keith Olberman just threw out the word: verisimilitude.

Chris Matthews has said ass three times in the last hour on MSNBC.

I missed the 37 country coalition mention. I was getting my pink lemonade martini. It’s the only way that I could tolerate the speech. Anyway, that is very stupid.

It’s kinda scary but sometime Pat Buchanan and I agree on things. Like tonight. He said Bush is relying too much on Petreaus for policy instead of the war effort.

Rachel Maddow commented that Bush said Anbar peeps don’t fear beheading. “Yeah, now they fear being blown up,” because one of the Anbar leaders was car bombed today (and not in the Guinness, Jameson and Bailey’s way but the horrible death way.)

Joe Biden is just all yelling and being Biden-y: angry and whatnot. He’s kinda cranky. He needs a nap. “I don’t know what in God’s name he’s talking about!” There’s a bit of a gaffy. I was wondering when that would come out.

Huckabee’s on sans tie. And a 5 o’clock shadow. The trail is wearing on him.

Okay okay. Let’s see what Fox is saying. Keep yer friends close and yer enemies closer.

It’s a bizarro world. Huckabee’s on MSNBC and Obama’s on Fox. Oop, commercial. Back to MSNBC.

Hmm...KO just said to stick around for the commercial. We did. It was Jon Edwards telling us to urge Congress to cut off funding for the war. Interesting. Base playing to Iowa.

Alrighty, time to get going. GH is on.

Still with Huckabee. He has giant eyes. And the lost weight (115 lbs) makes his neck a smidge on the jello-y side. But credit where credit’s do. He looks v.g.