He’s about to deliver it in just a few minutes. Here are some highlights of what the Prez. will talk about. Drudge has a full transcript of what the President will say.
You can watch it live online at Fox News.
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Debate notes:
9:09 - I see Kennedy and Obama are sitting chummily side by side. Hillary appears to be glaring from afar.
9:14 - The Dems don’t like his talk about renewing the Bush tax cuts 
9:16 - Sheesh … too bad Bush didn’t sound (and act) this tough on spending (earmarks) before! 
9:22 - Looks like Ted Kennedy is falling asleep at another SOTU.
9:28 - Is Nancy Pelosi reading a book while the President is speaking?
Check out how many Dems are standing for preserving innocent human life?
9:30 - Cheney too re: reading a book?
9:48 - I think the “book” is a guide of sorts to the SOTU.
The Dems reactions to the Prez. talking about Iraq are so telling (they always are) about how they feel about winning.
9:59 - Good to see Bob Dole in the President’s box.
Update 11:12 PM: The AP reports on the chill felt in the air tonight as Clinton and Obama did not speak to each other:
WASHINGTON (AP) - So close, yet so far away—and so bitter.
Rival Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama came within a foot of each other just before President Bush’s State of the Union speech Monday night and managed not to acknowledge each other, and certainly not touch.
Clinton, clad in scarlet, crossed the aisle between their seats on the House floor and reached out a hand to greet Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the Democratic icon whose endorsement she had courted only to lose it to Obama.
Kennedy shook her hand while Obama, wearing a dark suit and standing between the two, turned away.
The rivals then retreated to their seats, only the aisle and four senators between them.
This photo says it all:
Photo courtesy: AP/J. Scott Applewhite
Brrr …
Watching this speech after just having a vasectomy….
Quite the perspective….
Iced up and watching Nancy’s face up close….
On valium….
And ibuprofen…
What’s with that smile?????
LOVED the line the IRS accepts both checks and money orders from Bush.
Comment by Baklava @ 1/28/2008 - 9:14 pm
Woo Hoo ! Cut earmarks in half !!!
Public votes for earmarks !!!!
Did you see the shot of Obama? ’twas funny. He looked like he was in the “thinking pose”
As Bush speaks I’m becoming liberal…. I love Pelosi. Too bad she’s married….
Is this microphone on???
NCLB - 4th and 8th graders have had all time records. Hispanics and African Americans have had all time high’s
Comment by Baklava @ 1/28/2008 - 9:21 pm
nucular power. I spelled it as he said it.
WOW ! Everyonne stood up and applauded his slowing of green house gases line.
Bleh
Man Hillary looked good !
Comment by Baklava @ 1/28/2008 - 9:34 pm
ST, I’m pretty sure the book is the printed copy of the speech.
Comment by Baklava @ 1/28/2008 - 9:38 pm
It was funny when Bush gave the envelopes containing his speech to Cheney and Pelosi; he crossed his arms, so the VP got the one from his right hand, and Madam Speaker got the one from his left!
Comment by Tom TB @ 1/28/2008 - 11:04 pm
Bak,
You are loving those painkillers too much. You are going to hate yourself in the morning.
Comment by PCD @ 1/29/2008 - 8:38 am
I tried to watch it live last night, and then remembered why I always read the transcripts. All the standing and clapping really slows the whole thing down.
If I were president, the first thing I would say is “Alright, the people at home probably have things to do, so I’m going to talk for 30 minutes, then you can stand and applaud (or not) if you choose too. But let’s get this finished up so that hard-working parents can get to bed…”
Comment by alchemist @ 1/29/2008 - 9:27 am
Well, we’ve finally found something we agree on. If the baud rate goes down too much on information flow, I get bored and my mind wanders. And then I go do something else.
I read the transcript this morning. I have the same reaction most times to blog postings that put up a video link but don’t fully tell you what’s said. I’d rather then have a video link and a transcript, so I can just read it which is much faster than watching it.
Comment by Severian @ 1/29/2008 - 11:10 am