As we expected, fewer demonstrably inaccurate statements in the second half of the speech, which focused much more heavily on foreign affairs and was more aspirational than policy-oriented.
I’ll say one thing for W: he’s a lot better at giving speeches than he used to be. I didn’t cringe nearly as much as I did whenever he spoke in public in the first term. Maybe it’s the confidence that comes from actually winning an election?
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Jeez, Harry Reid is killing us. WHAT THE HELL IS THIS GARBAGE?Cut to the chase. Now. Yesterday. Last year. Gah.
Boring bullet point crapola. Reid could’ve stayed at home and let a PowerPoint presentation do the job — you know, with all the whooshes and fly-ins and whatnot.
“Social Security Roulette”?Why not “Social Insecurity”? That’s my favorite, and the most obvious name for the phase-out.
Pelosi … awful. Plastic surgery. Horrible introduction: “I want to talk to you about an issue of grave concern: our national security”. Wow, you’re worried about that? Teleprompter-Zombie delivery. ZZzzzzz…..Why are the leaders of our party so incompetent in the basics of communicating on TV — heck, just public speaking? We need a party-wide symposium … TV boot camp for everyone running for anything higher than dog-catcher.
She’s warming up a little, driving to the finish … good about supporting the troops for real. And good that the DNC has realized that providing for military folks is morally proper, a winning issue, and a wedge for the Republicans: i.e. we can win because we deserve to win on it.
Reid really wasn’t that bad, especially with that notion of a “birth tax”. We need to expand on that.Pelosi looked like she just got a huge botox injection
That’s probably because they made him a new earpiece after the debates