Get your early excerpts of the State of the Union address here.
Can’t we all get along?
The headline from MSNBC: “Bush to plead for bipartisanship amid opposition to Iraq ‘surge'”
I don’t know if you were watching at home but as the president walked into the House chamber the first Dem to glad hand him and get a word was none other than Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH). He seemed to be pressing some point. And President Bush didn’t seem too interested.
If you’re planning on sending in your video response to the State of the Union, the instructions for what to do are right here.
What a strange man. After disarmingly gracious opening remarks about Nancy Pelosi’s speakership, the president congratulates the ‘Democrat majority’ — words most every Democrat takes as a calculated insult. The prepared remarks say “Democratic majority”. But apparently he couldn’t help himself.
I’ll be posting my response after Sen. Webb (D-VA) gives the Democratic response. Send us your video response? See the instructions on the right.
In my little video blurb below I asked readers to send in the text of this one passage of Sen. Jim Webb’s speech which I thought was the most powerful language of the evening.
Here it is …
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 â those matters of war and peace, and in some cases of life and death â 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 harmâs way.
That’s the heart of it. It damns George W. Bush in ways that very little else can.
Late Update: I’m told by a source close to Webb that the senator wrote the speech himself.
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