Live-Blogging the State of the Union, George W. Bush January 28 2008, Part Two
Live blogging of the Jan 28 2008 State of the Union continues:
9:18: I forgot Hillary was here! She claps for George W. Bush’s health care vision with very litle enthusiasm.
9:19: Barack Obama is not clapping at all.
9:19: Dick Cheney’s going to knock himself out with all that clapping.
9:20: Okay, Bush, we get the point: THERE WILL BE NO CHANGE IN USA HEALTH CARE THIS YEAR. That’s sad, but we get it and you can stop saying it.
food break
9:23: Yay, we will approve free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea. Show me the money.
9:26: Okay, at least he’s putting the environment into the speech (renewable energy sources, reducing greenhouse gases). No argument on any of these points, George.
9:27: Barack is applauding.
9:27: If Bush really devotes himself to energy/environmental initiatives in his final year, instead of pretending he’s going to create peace between Palestine and Israel, he could actually have a good final year.
9:28: Are we going to talk about abortion now? I get the feeling he’s steering that way.
9:30: He skirted abortion, nice move actually George. Now, this thing about selling, cloning etc. of human life — that’s some tricky stuff, but I think it’s good Bush is bringing these thorny questions into the national debate.
Not a bad quarter for the President. But we didn’t get to Iraq yet, so hang on for more.