> -----Original Message----- > From: Jon Gabriel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 08:37 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: I Think I'm Going to Cry...... > > > Well as long as *somebody* was touched. I've heard him be > much more inspiring. Every single other State of the Union > address my wife and I (and the twelve friends I spoke with > afterwards) had ever heard was, in fact, more inspirational > than the one we sat through tonight. We were quite > disappointed. The President had a great opportunity to hit a > grand slam and rally the country around him and he barely > bunted it back to the mound.
I have to agree. I wasn't moved much. The first half seemed to be him saying "yeah, sure" to a bunch of domestic programs without offering much new (although the extra $ for Africa was a welcome point.) The second half started strong, but dwindled to a lackluster finish. > Oh yeah, what the %$#@! Is "Hitlerism"? Could that not have > been handled with a more elegant turn of phrase? Heh.. I took a drink on that one. Also, wtf was up with the "let me tell you this.. there' not gonna bother no one no more" line? He came /really/ close to saying "don't mess with texas" on that one ;) -j- _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
