Are you planning to watch the State of the Union address?

[Sparkly]

Poll question: Are you planning to watch the State of the Union address?

Are you planning to put yourself through the aggravating experience of watching Chimp read the SOTU? (Will Comedy Central have it, btw?)

[cmf]

1. Hell no

I have to consider my health. I might have a stroke if I watched.

[aintitfunny]

2. I couldn't stand it

besides our local Dem club is meeting tonight.

[FreedomAngel82]

26. No way!

Only coverage I'll see of it is on the Daily show. Other then that I'd be so pissed off I'd be holding my tounge the whole time.

[bluestateguy]

3. No.

And of course I'll have to stay away from DU tonight too because some people here will insist on blow by blow reports of the Baby Bush's speech.

[cyberpj]

4. No Way No How - You won't be able to avoid hearing about it anyway

[BOHICA06]

5. A must for me .....

... a true Sun Tzu moment.

[seemunkee]

6. I usually try to

But for the sake of my TV I have to turn it off before I start throwing things.

[ThorsHammer]

7. Yes; I'm pretty sure Daily Show will have at least several clips

[DistressedAmerican]

8. Absolutely, I chock it up under "Know Your Enemy"

Unless you see the whole speech you are left with soundbites fed to us by the networks. That gets on my freaking nerves. Talk about your "media filter"! I'll be drinking heavily though...

[SharonRB]

24. I agree with you

I feel like I have no frame of reference when they start spinning everything if I don't see it for myself. It will be torture, but I'll watch. I'm sure there will be at least a few laughs, too.

[southpaw]

9. I think it conflicts with 'Good Eats'

I'll take Alton over * any ol' day of the week.

[Stinky The Clown]

32. Hey Southpaw! I'm with you!

At a very minimum, we know Alton tells the truth. And he's entertaining.

[Catshrink]

34. Me, too!

I wonder if TDS will be talking about the SOTU tonight? Probably tomorrow night, right?

[liberal N proud]

10. I will not allow that filth to be displayed in my house

I would punish my children if they lied like that and will not expose them to creatures that do.

[iamjoy]

11. Undecided

A part of me says I should watch, "know thine enemy" and all that.

But, I seriously think I may have an anxiety attack. My stomach hurts and pulse accelerates just thinking about what Dubya wants to do.

Then I think I have to watch so I can hit the blogs and write letters to the editor as rebuttal.

Certainly there are more enjoyable things I could do - I haven't given my cats' litter box a good scrubbing in a long while (and there would be less crap in the cat box).

[ginnyinWI]

12. use your mute button if you have close-captioning

I find that I can read W's words without getting the stomach-churning rage that I get when I listen with the sound on. :thumbsup:


edit: lol, I'm with you on the cat box comment!

[okieinpain]

13. i've got two levels to go in doom3. then it's time for half-life2,

after that it's far cry. after far cry, hopefully halo2 will be out for the PC. I intend to spend the next four years either on DU, reading a book, traveling (as long as there are no border crossings), or playing video games.

I haven't watched c-span, tweety, crossfire, or any of the others since 11/02, and I'm not going to watch unless something major happens. so to make it short and sweet, hell no I'm not going to watch the anti-christ tonight.

:~)

[rainbow4321]

14. BYOB....

Found a Burnt Orange entry that might help get us thru the night:


http://www.burntorangereport.com/archives/003215.html


For those of you who were thinking of skipping it, I have a way to make it fun: a drinking game! The rules are very simple.

If he says "freedom", take a shot of tequila

If he says "liberty", take a shot of vodka

If he actually uses the phrase "freedom is on the march" and then smirks and pauses for applause, eat the worm

If he says "ownership society", sip you beer

If he says "personalized accounts", hit the Jack Daniels


This way, everybody can enjoy the SOTU... and Jenna won't have to yawn during the speech. I should probably put in a disclaimer that this game should not be attempted by anyone, since it is almost sure that he will use each of these phrases several dozen times in the 40-minute speech. You'll get alcohol poisoning before he's done talking about his privatization scheme.

[Telly Savalas]

15. It's either that or mutilating my testicles with a staple gun.

I'm a glutton for pain, but I still haven't decided which would be worse.

[davepc]

16. i read a transcript after the fact

I cant stand all the applause breaks

this is going back to '92 when I first started paying attention to politics.

[MISSDem]

17. I cannot bear to look at him for that long

a time. Just seeing his picture in the newspaper makes me cringe.

[Dark]

18. Yea, cause Bush is our president and we have to support him

or something like that. . .

God, I still can't believe this brain fuck is our president. I need a drink.

[chelsea0011]

19. State of Union is a worthless speech

It is nothing more than the reining party to gather unnecessay and certainly undeserved applause and, at the same time promise everything to everyone.

[twenty2strings]

20. That's a big FUCK NO!...Good buddy...

Just can't stand the sorry motherfucker.:grr:

[Mist]

21. You don't have a category for

"Will watch until I can't stand anymore, will hit mute, will bring sound back up for rebuttals."

[unpossibles]

22. only if I do the drinking game...

[Roland99]

23. Where's the "HELL NO" option?

My prediction:

Freedom...liberty...SS personalization...ownership...home ownership....health savings accounts...freedom....personalization...hard work ... freedom...liberty...hard work...mandate...working hard...moving forward...freedom...security...terrorists....ownership ... freedom...moving forward.

[Eagle_Eye]

25. NO! I can't stand bush

[Gemini Cat]

27. I'll watch the stupid address.

I want to know what's going on and what that lizard-ass has planned for a new round of stupid.

Then I'll do as I always do and count the over used words he blunders through and I'll count how many times he mis-pronounces various common everyday words.

My TV as always, will take a beating. Poor TV.

[IndianaGreen]

28. I'll find out through DU what lies Bush told

that's better than having to watch Bush lie like a rug.

[donsu]

29. No - instead I'm going to watch In A Fix on TLC

nt

[rainbow4321]

30. Pisses me off it will pre-empt West Wing...

I finally get a Wednesday night off and chimpface is taking over the fuckin' airwaves..damn him.

[CatholicEdHead]

31. Yes, and do play by play online

between DU and another board.

[Haymare22]

33. Tonight Im glad.....

I dont have satelite tv near my pc! Can read DU w/o tv!!!!
I ran out of duct tape....

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