A Week From Now...

What will you remember about the SOTU 2006?

http://www.c-span.org/executive/transcript.asp?cat=current_event&code=bush_admin&year=2006
from JoeUser Forums
Overall I thought Bush delivered his speech fairly well. I think it lacked a solid focus or theme. I also think he used too many buzzwords that I wouldn't think will resonate a lot to the average american; isolationism, protectionism, keeping America competitive, revolution of conscience. What happened to the straight shootin rancher from Texas?

So what I'm asking is this...

Is there anything specific about this address that you'll remember a week from now? The only thing that comes to mind for me is the line about being addicted to oil.

And here we have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstable parts of the world.
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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
all your lights are on, but you're not home
so's the tv, you let it drone
your heart sweats, your body shakes
more ac is what it takes
you can't sleep, you can't eat
if there's a chill, kick up the heat
your car is big and it hauls ass
it gets 8 miles per gallon of gas

whoa, you like to think you're above all the turmoil
if you really believe that, your hat must be tin foil
cuz like it or not, you're addicted to oil.

goddamn the pusher man
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
all your lights are on, but you're not home
so's the tv, you let it drone
your heart sweats, your body shakes
more ac is what it takes
you can't sleep, you can't eat
if there's a chill, kick up the heat
your car is big and it hauls ass
it gets 8 miles per gallon of gas

whoa, you like to think you're above all the turmoil
if you really believe that, your hat must be tin foil
cuz like it or not, you're addicted to oil.

Niiiiice... that was very funny.


Is there anything specific about this address that you'll remember a week from now?

What I will take away? Tim Kaine's left eyebrow rocketing skyward.
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
I had heard about that eyebrow. It was....distracting.
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
What will I remember? The fact that Bush has some decent speechwriters on staff. I can appreciate his speechwriters efforts. I never have like the way he delivers them. Sometimes (like when he was reading the section of the Marine's letter to his family) his emotions, devotion and humanity come out. Othertimes, it feels like he's a bumbling his way through Freshman Speech at the county high school.


Come to think of it ... some of the speechs by the freshman in Speech class are delivered better. Not nearly as well written ... but that's what having decent speechwriters'll do for ya.

I, personally, prefer to read the speech itself, rather than subject myself to Bush's mangling of the delivery.


I'll give Clinton this - regardless of what you thought about the man himself, he knew how to give a good speech.
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
I'll give Clinton this - regardless of what you thought about the man himself, he knew how to give a good speech.


I agree. There was an interesting story by Paul Begala last night on CNN about one of Clinton's SOTU addresses. They apparently loaded the wrong speech into the teleprompter. They tried to fix it before he started, but screwed that up also, so he had to wing it and never really missed a beat.
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
I shall remember King's poem.
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
I almost forgot...

What the hell was he talking about with that human-animal hybrid business?