LIVEBLOG: George Bush's final State of the Union speech
8:43pm - Ha ha, John McCain won't be there!
9:00pm - Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne isn't invited to the party!
9:01pm - The Bush twins are there (and probably drunk?). This is the first time they've attended Bush's SOTU speech.
9:03pm - CNN just reported that Hillary Clinton is seated about 10 feet from Barack Obama and Ted Kennedy. When she walked over towards them Ted Kennedy reached across Obama to shake her hand, while Obama just looked away. BURRRRRN!
9:09pm - Bush calls for debate on the economy and foreign policy. Yeah because he's been so open to debate over the past seven years.
9:10pm - Republicans and Democrats can cooperate! Wow....... Really.....?
9:11pm - "Our economy is undergoing a period of uncertainty..."
9:13pm - You're all screwed in the short run.
9:13pm - Bush calls on Americans to send the IRS checks AND money orders!!
9:15pm - Bush threatens a surplus in 2012 (but only because we'll have a Democrat in office).
9:15pm - We're going to veto EVERY bill over the next year!
9:16pm - Something is apparently funny.
9:18pm - Oh man Hillary looks THRILLED to be there!
9:18pm - Obama too!!
9:19pm - Let's help the rich people some more!
9:20pm - NO ONE can deny No Child Left Behind has been nothing but a big.. fat.. disaster!
9:20pm - No Child Left Behind is bi-partisan because..... uhm.... Joe Lieberman (?) supports it?
9:24pm - Colombia is our new BFF!
9:25pm - Hey look there's 49 term Senator John Warner of Virginia. Oh John Warner, I thought you were dead already. You know, since you're like 538 years old and all.
9:27pm - All this talk about cleaner and more energy efficient technology would be great and all, you know, if Bush would actually act on it.
9:27pm - Stop murdering stem cells!
9:29pm - All life should be treated with dignity. Except in Iraq. Except for the death penalty. Hell, except for anyone who isn't a white wealthy Christian male.
9:30pm - The Federal government is supporting religion. Wait, isn't that sort of, ya know, a violation of the Constitution?
9:32pm - Massive deficits!
9:34pm - Stirring moments in "the history of liberal." LOLZ!
9:36pm - Juvenile Iraqi's voted? Wait, I don't think that's legal OR a correct statement.
Let's start a part two!
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Kent Ninomiya - President George W. Bush's final State of the Union speech seemed more about his legacy than the state of our union. He expended great effort to give his spin on the war in Iraq. Bush realizes that history will judge him by the outcome of the Iraq war. Convincing the masses that the cause was just, will determine whether Bush goes down in history as a great leader or a butcher. Bush even floated a Mid East peace agreement. Bill Clinton wanted that to be his legacy but failed. Bush hopes to one-up his predecessor. What the State of the Union speech was NOT... was politics. Bush did not overtly press a republican agenda that could help GOP candidates for president. None of the candidates want to be associated with Bush. The president is remarkably unpopular these days. It's quite a change from his nearly 90% approval rating he enjoyed just after 9-11. That's a similarity he shares with his father. George H.W. Bush was hugely popular following the first Gulf War only to leave office after one term when the economy went belly up. How will history judge "W?" That depends on how the Iraq war eventually wraps up. Kent Ninomiya
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