Bush: A Busy President

We’re only one day into the Barack Obama presidency, and it’s turning even the blackest hearts to lush, read ones. (Is this how it works? Maybe the small heart gets bigger, like with the Grinch.) Even the posters on Domelights, a notoriously whiny bunch, have been pretty upbeat about the inauguration. There’s still plenty of sniping at each other — one poster calls another an “idiotic coward” — but not too much toward Obama, and nothing too stupid. (This is subject to change.)

But I did come across this new, great argument:

Man, Bush has dealt with more than the last three President’s combined! Two wars, Hurricane Katrina, Terrorism, the Economy! Hopefully no other President has to deal with as much as him, he had no breaks! So, with everything he dealt with he didn’t do too bad of a job in my point of view!

Don’t know if this is a joke, but I’m really hoping it’s not.

State of the Union Liveblog

It’s about 15 minutes before the State of the Union address, and I have one question: Is this thing in high definition?

Yes, for a combined Christmas-birthday present I got an HDTV for my apartment. It’s nice. And bigger than I thought. And right now I’m watching American Idol in high def — and, well, the remote is all the way at the other end of the couch, so I’m planning on staying on Fox 29 for the SOTU as well. So is it in HD?

Eff what Dubya wants to say about health care or Iran or how squeamish he gets when he thinks about two guys doing each other. I only have one question before the State of the Union, and I’m just wondering if it’s in HD.

Also, lots of fat people have been made fun of on Idol tonight, and I’m expecting plenty of complaint press releases from the National Fat People Coalition or whatever.

Either way, join me here! A little before 9 p.m.! On Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday! For the State of the Union liveblog! I have a can of Yuengling with me, but no drinking games here: I plan on having half of it done at the end of this stupid speech. In the meantime, Matt Donegan has a new blog post up — and it’s predictably awesome — and somebody invited Cindy Sheehan to the SOTU. Oh, snap. Okay, one drinking game: If Sheehan rushes the stage, I’ll finish my beer.

After the jump, the minute-by-minute (or however often I come up with a one-liner) recap.

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SOTU Liveblogging!

If you’re going to be watching television for tonight’s State of the Union address, why not stop by Philadelphia Will Do for instant commentary, one-liners and possibly some poor typing if I do a drinking game during Bush’s address. (Don’t get your hopes up. I’m not going to. I have some journalistic standards.)

Barring technical difficulties like my laptop exploding or deciding to play Madden, I’ll be liveblogging Bush’s speech starting a little before 9 p.m. I promise only one thing: I will bash every single person who is mentioned in tonight’s speech.

Okay, maybe not Coretta Scott King. Hmm.

Anyway, 9 p.m. SOTU liveblogging. In the meantime, you can read this unfunny and overly predictable “advance copy” of Bush’s speech that was inexplicably labeled as coming from the Chicago Sun-Times on Google News.

2006 State of the Union Address (Advance Copy) [e.thePeople (oh Jesus Christ)]
State of the Union archives [C-SPAN]