Guests at state of the union?

[fryguy]

Who's gonig to be sitting with pickles tonight? snowflake children? katrina survivors? wounded vets? iraqi parliamentarians? i'm having a hard time coming up with who will be showcased.....

[C_U_L8R]

1. I hate those cameos

it's such pandering

[Buzz Clik]

2. Small entrepreneur who makes ethanol for fuel?

Perhaps he can get the best of all worlds: a recovering wounded vet of Iraq who, as it happens, voted in the Iraqi elections and still has the ink on his finger, and he's a snowflake kid who was a success story of Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" campaign... and is a small entrepreneur who is producing fuel ethanol.

[Buzz Clik]

9. I was not exactly right but certainly on track.

• He had a large African athlete turned philanthropist who recently got his US citizenship.
  
• An entrepreneur who turned a small business into a big one
  
• A wounded vet of the Iraq conflict
  
• One guest sitting next to Pickles was a professor from Purdue University who has spent her career researching alternate fuels.

Still would have been cool if he could have found a single person with all these characteristics.

[Norrin Radd]

10. LOL

[Lerkfish]

3. an Iranian dissident who was pulled from an incubator by Al-Queda

[JohnnyLib2]

4. Well, not the D.C. mayor.

I'd say wounded vets, some snowflake children, maybe Mrs. Lieberman and Barney.

[Stinky The Clown]

5. Me

And I'll be mooning the asshole .......



Laura will zoned out on Xanax, so she won't mind at all ...... plus I promised her a carton of Marlboro's when its over.

[partylessinOhio]

6. Not DC Mayor:

Fenty Won't Sit With Laura Bush At Speech

By Elissa Silverman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, January 23, 2007; Page B01

D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty has declined a White House invitation to sit with first lady Laura Bush at tonight's State of the Union address, deciding to attend the event as a guest of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/22/AR2007012201321.html

[partylessinOhio]

7. "We saved lives. Now help save ours." - message from 9/11 responders:

Desperate message for Bush from sick 9/11 responders
United front heads to D.C. to press for more funding to treat suffering heroes
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
By HEIDI J. SHRAGER

A retired NYPD detective, an ironworker and a dead cop's father have a message for President George Bush, who will give his State of the Union address tonight.

We saved lives. Now help save ours.

Rescue workers who developed lung diseases after breathing poisonous dust at Ground Zero are heading down to the president's State of the Union address today, in a bid to pressure federal officials to fund the growing medical needs of thousands of New Yorkers who heroically sprang into action after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

The trip comes as medical experts and New York's congressional delegation are warning that $40 million in federal funds for the city's two main treatment programs is fast running out. "Our money will run out over the next several months," said Jacqueline Moline, the director of the World Trade Center Medical Monitoring and Treatment program at Mount Sinai, in which 19,000 first responders are registered.

New Yorkers traveling to Washington, D.C., today as guests of the New York congressional delegation include the family of the late NYPD Detective James Zadroga, who was the first confirmed post-9/11 death. Also heading to the capital is Ceasar Borja Jr., the son of Ceasar Borja, a retired NYPD officer now in critical condition at Mount Sinai Hospital with pulmonary fibrosis, the same disease that killed Zadroga just over a year ago. ...

http://www.silive.com/news/advance/index.ssf?/base/news/116955722422530.xml&coll=1

[lpbk2713]

8. A KIA's widow on one side, an amputee vet on the other.

And maybe Jessica Lynch will also be there with her new baby.

There's no limit to how far they will go in their pandering.

[gratuitous]

11. No Ahmed Chalabi?

Gee, George sure forgets who his friends are (or used to be) rather quickly, doesn't he? Probably learned all that uncluttered beautiful mind stuff from mumsy.