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1. Whenever George W mentions the liberation of the freedom loving Iraqi
people, the last person to grab his throat in a choking motion has to drink
four shots of beer.
Sava, alcohol poisioning is a very serious problem. We don't need any more of it in our society.
Originally posted by Alinestra Covelia
The funny thing is, I'm going to be in the press gallery for that speech. I got my Congressional press credentials earlier this afternoon and I'm going to be wearing black.
Wow..do tell everything you can. It should be rather interesting.
If you don't like reality, change it! me
"Oh no! I am bested!" Drake
"it is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong" Voltaire
"Patriotism is a pernecious, psychopathic form of idiocy" George Bernard Shaw
We sat in the balcony directly above Bush. He was not in our view when he sat down. On the way in, he stopped to shake hands and at one point a little African American girl was placed in his arms for him to cuddle and agitate in a delighted fashion. Before his arrival, we saw Powell, Rumsfeld, and Ashcroft enter in that order. It was interesting to see them in the flesh. Rumsfeld's face looked more skeletal than ever. Perhaps he's a lich in disguise.
They don't allow press to carry anything other than a notepad and pen onto the balcony. I had a digital camera but they didn't permit that because I wasn't photog on my press pass. There were a few photogs on the balcony with us but understandably most of them were on the other side where they could see the Pres.
If any good photos come out showing the press gallery, I'm the one three rows above and three people to the left of the President. They probably won't...
Press members left en masse about 10 minutes from the end of his speech. At first I thought this was in response to his vomit-worthy anecdote involving a 10-year old Rhode Island girl who wrote to him asking how she can improve the country and he responded that she could start by saying "thank you" every time she saw a person wearing a uniform. Later on I realized this was because the press were getting ready to grill the Congressmen outside at Statue Hall.
Hillary Rodham Clinton was there, in blue and wearing a yellow flower - she was seated at the Senatorial Escorts section, oddly enough. There seemed to be an interesting color coding amongst the women. They wore either blue or red. Perhaps this indicated their political skew. There was one woman in green and two short plump ones in purple. Maybe they were just confused.
Bush made few errors and all were very small slips that he corrected immediately. He did claim that the job market had improved markedly during the past year, which seemed a controversial claim. I saw many people on the Dem side start to applaud and then freeze suddenly after he made that claim.
He won the most applause for his comments about the war.
I started to note down the junctures at which the representatives applauded, according to length of applause and political siding (the Dems were largely to my right, and the Reps to my left - these would be inverted for the TV viewers). At or about the fifth page (where he started talking about the 10 year old girl's letter) I lost patience and interest in the exercise.
No members of the press applauded or cheered at any stage. Score one for impartiality compounded by crashing boredom.
You mean you were in a perfect position to drop something on him and forgot!?
I'm consitently stupid- Japher I think that opinion in the United States is decidedly different from the rest of the world because we have a free press -- by free, I mean a virgorously presented right wing point of view on the air and available to all.- Ned
Well, I wondered whether I could put my press gallery seat on eBay. My sale of that seat would only be for the place and time itself, not for authorial license of any usage thereof.
Maybe takers with usernames like NOTKimJongIl and NOTBinLadenNOTEVENALITTLEBIT would be interested.
More interesting was watching the Dems. At times they applauded en masse, such as when Bush talked about education spending and other public expenditure issues. Other times, like the military and war against terror, they clapped not at all. A few times, you could see the Dems hesitating before they clapped to figure out what the party line was.
Hillary Clinton looked extremely bored throughout. And who could blame her.
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