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Now, I can't recall ever having watched a State of the Union address before... and the fact that I watched it might indicated how scared I was to go play the new reed I got on Sunday (my PM is notorious for handing out ridiculously hard reeds, and I suspected this would be no different... turned out not that bad, actually.... but whatever), but sweet merciful crap... that is a lot of self-laudatory bullshit that Dubya sprewed out last night, wasn't it??

Maybe that's all this kind of thing is supposed to be, but that was a pretty useless hour of prime time rhetoric. And tired rhetoric at that. In fact, I swear I saw a guy a row in front of Hilary who was completely asleep!

And do they have to give him a standing ovation for every other fucking sentence he utters?!?

For Christ's sake... John Kerry looked openly bored. Condi must have been either stoned, drunk, of just plain ol' pissed off. She looks like an angry fuck, to me. And considering he was in the background through the whole thing, couldn't the Veep have tried to not look constipated? Or is that just his natural look?

Also, you'll note he reinforced his self-made exit strategy for Iraq, pointing out again what a significant responsibility the Iraqis have, and that without their support, the US will pull out, leaving it for the next president to clean up. He even went so far as to say that the war on terror will be passed onto his successors and our children. Talk about starting a fight you have no intention of finishing.....

Now, I'll be fair. He actually mentioned some worthwhile (non-tired rhetoric) stuff. I just about feel off the couch when he mentioned Darfur, and helping to fight AIDS and Malaria in Africa. I really didn't see that coming....

But what the fuck did Dikembe Mutombo have to do with anything? I guess it was a nice seguay from the Africa stuff... but seriously. Talk about a red herring!

And the creator of Baby Einstein? That's just a business woman who knew how to capitalize on hyper-competitive and uber-insecure yuppie parents. As if that shit makes any difference! And what a terrible choice of names! Wasn't Einstein, himself, considered slow for most of his childhood? And even adult life?

Whatever....

I have to admit that Wesley Autry dude (assuming he actually said this) had a good point, saying, "I'm not a hero. We've got men and women fighting for us overseas. The least we can do is show each other some love" after saving some dude who fell in front of a subway in NYC. Of course, if the guy was trying to kill himself, that's another matter.