Last night, we did not watch *'s speech. We turned the teevee off

[Skidmore]

after Keith finished his commentary and before they gin up another screen. Given the couple of bits I've seen today in surfing past cable news channels, it appears likely that he strung the speeches from the past week together and gave them all at the same time. We did not miss a thing. The world did not miss a thing. This nation, and the world, are not safer. Congress is not any less idiotic. And we will continue with more floggings in the courtyard through the election.

Can you think of a better reason to rake among the grassroots for votes at the polls over the next few weeks? Let's get out there and put an end to this insanity.

[hatrack]

1. I won't listen to him

So, I tuned in to DU for the running commentary, which is always better, only to be flummoxed by server problems.

No matter - it was the same damned speech he's been giving for the last 3 years, groaning under the weight of multiple straw men and utterly devoid of anything new, interesting or even marginally informative.

In fact, the entire crescendo of PR and bullshit over the last weeks and months was all for nothing. It's like someone hired the London Symphony Orchestra to play an hour-long piece which climaxed with a squeaky little fart.

[EST]

7. Kinda like bad sex (is there such a thing?)--

All the work, anticipation, sweat, and maneuvering only to end up with !sproing! is that all there is?
Not even worth a cigarette afterward.

Lousy lay, that booossh.

[AndyA]

2. You didn't miss a thing - Bush was off topic, and the usual fool.

Here we are on the 5th anniversary of 9/11, and our President is still selling the war in Iraq to us. A war that the overwhelming majority do not approve of. If there were ever a mandate, it would be this.

President Bush is a pathetic excuse for a human being. We all just have to be patient and wait for the day when President Pelosi announces that there will be no pardon for Bush and Cheney, they will serve their time per their sentencing.

THAT will be a happy day in America!

[Skidmore]

3. My husband listened to Keith and when he was finished,

picked up the remote and said, "I've heard all I need to hear today. Nothing that will be on the rest of the night will be truth." Then he shut it off.

[AndyA]

8. Your husband is a smart man. You should be thankful you were spared

the experience. On his Bush day, Bush is disgusting. When he's drugged up/propped up/over rehearsed, it's even worse. I watch his hands, and the movements he makes with them when speaking are not natural.

Bush is rehearsed. If he's being honest and truthful, why the big production? He's hiding things from America, and he knows it deep inside. I wish your husband had been around to turn my TV off after Olberman.

[bdamomma]

12. your husband was quite correct.

[deadparrot]

4. I took a nap.

Unfortuntely, when I woke up, I went to the Student Union to get some dinner. CNN was on the big screen. I didn't hear anything, but the few glances of his face was enough to make me lose my appetite.

[hlthe2b]

5. ditto... Watched KO via internet and listened to Sam on AAR...

[EST]

6. A rare occasion for me.

I did watch his speech-something I almost never do-and you are right: you missed nothing of any import.

One thing I did notice, that I had not, before, was his hissing delivery. Like a cheesy melodrama from fifty years ago, with the vile anti-hero hissing every word that he could put a hiss into; the snake was very evident.
He was panting as well, which I attribute to communal panic that we may achieve subpoena power, laying bare the crimes, even the "classified ones," that the criminal cadre has committed.

I'm betting that there will be some amazing contortions and maybe even martial law to prevent any chance of this seeping cesspool's exposure to the bright light of integrity, honesty and respect.

[4_TN_TITANS]

9. me too....

I can't watch him anymore without screaming at the t.v., which really annoys the wife.

[bdamomma]

16. I still scream at the TV when I see any of them Cheney, Bush or

Rummy, can't stand any of them. My kids get upset with me, my husband who is not American told me something very interesting after bush won/stole in 2004, he said America will never look the same after bush gets done with it, smart man my husband is.

[Lexingtonian]

10. you're right

No news there. It was the most rhetorically coherent stringing together of their talking points yet, but it was still nonsensical, illogical, hypocrisy, and occultism.

He repeated the words "freedom" (what his Administration brings the Middle East, also known as chaos and anarchy and barbarism) and "resolve" (what Republicans need in the face of reality punching them in the face and kicking them in the stomach while they insist on their stupid policies and views) as mantras. Yeah, and there were echoes of a couple of famous speeches from American history in there- I heard little bits lifted from the Gettysburg Address and FDR's 'fireside chats'. But this buffoon can't credibly hold a candle to those. (Just imagine Bush saying "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." Or "that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth." No, I can't either.) They're plagiarists in everything.

He's gone on to expounding the final teaching of a defeated political occultism to his followers, Apocalypse, kinda overtly as the way in which his f-d up Middle East interference is somehow meritorious and glorious, even if it is doomed to failure. 'Struggle for civilization', 'fight them over there rather than in our streets', it's going to cost more lives but we must prevail in the end, and so on. Goebbels did a lot better of a job at this, to be candid, as the Red Army rolled in on Berlin.

Kind of a contrast to the triumphalism of 2001 and 2002/03.

[bdamomma]

11. after keith's outstanding commentary, I didn't even bother

to listen to him, and after watching what he did to Matt Lauer, Bush is totally deranged, that vote in November can't come any faster, we just need to get these thugs out for all of our sakes.

[damntexdem]

13. Oh, what a terrible mistake:

there was a good NFL game on ESPN. ;-)

[mnhtnbb]

14. I NEVER watch Bush--if I can help it. My blood pressure can't take it.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

15. If they wanted to torture me - they'd play 48 hrs of Bush speeches

egads - could you imagine? I'd turn my own mother in to escape that kind of torture. Just hearing a few words coming out of his mouth makes my blood pressure zoom.

[madmom]

17. didn't want to watch it , but SO did and we both got angry, go figure!

edited to say we both got angry at the shrub not each other