State of the Union

So I didn't actually watch the State of the Union.

But I read the transcript on the New York Times website, which is a very different thing, of course, from actually seeing it.

Here's the thing. The speech doesn't start out so bad. Bush is dead right that isolationism right now would be very dangerous. And I believe that no matter what you feel about the Iraq Invasion, withdrawing troops from Iraq would be about the most awful thing to the do to the Iraqi people (or, the second most awful thing, depending on how you feel about that other thing).

Anyway, then the speech gets into a really bad area and stays there pretty much throughout. The tone appears to be conciliatory, bi-partisan, etc, but the content gets really really bad. I'll post some specifics shortly.