# Bush's Union of the State... the State's the Union... the States are United speech **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 24, 2007, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bushs-union-of-the-state-the-states-the-union-the-states-are-united-speech/389176 "2007-01-24T00:12:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Kid\_A\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bushs-union-of-the-state-the-states-the-union-the-states-are-united-speech/389176/61 "2007-01-24T04:00:04Z")
[QUOTE=Mayo Speaks!] \*\*Dikembe Mutumbo \*\*- makes sense \*\*Soldier who fought injured \*\*- makes sense \*\*Guy who dived under a train to save another guy \*\*- makes sense \*\*“Baby Einstein” lady \*\*- wtf?? [/QUOTE] Before I saw the transcript I thought you were joking. Now I’m dumbfounded. ---
**Author:** ![vinniepaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b4bc9f/32.png) [@vinniepaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vinniepaz)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bushs-union-of-the-state-the-states-the-union-the-states-are-united-speech/389176/62 "2007-01-24T04:05:39Z")
[QUOTE=BMax] Any bets on how many: 1. Words he mispronounces? 2. Phrases he screws up the syntax? 3. Sentences he reads without the slightest notion of what he’s saying? 4. Times he references 9/11? 5. Times he says “War on Terror”? 6. Times he references sending a (clear, loud, strong) message? 7. Blames someone else (Saddam, Terrists, Islamo-fascists) for his fuck ups? 8. Implies a 9-11/Iraq connection? [/QUOTE] 9. Other President’s would have given the exact same speech? I don’t understand why anyone watches it either, but not because of President Bush, because there’s only one reasonable speech to give in this situation, regardless of who is President. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bushs-union-of-the-state-the-states-the-union-the-states-are-united-speech/389176/63 "2007-01-24T04:06:05Z")
I’m feeling truly sad. For most of my adult life, I never missed a major presidential speech, because they seemed important. Even with presidents I voted against, I still listened. But I simply cannot force myself to look at and listen to this wretched motherfucker for that long. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bushs-union-of-the-state-the-states-the-union-the-states-are-united-speech/389176/64 "2007-01-24T04:06:16Z")
> [@Patty O'Furniture](#): > > Reading Presents Challenge for Captain Carrot Oh, quiet. We’ve all suffered through Bush trying to speak in public, so what else could that headline mean? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bushs-union-of-the-state-the-states-the-union-the-states-are-united-speech/389176/65 "2007-01-24T04:10:49Z")
[QUOTE=Baldwin] I’m feeling truly sad. For most of my adult life, I never missed a major presidential speech, because they seemed important. Even with presidents I voted against, I still listened. But I simply cannot force myself to look at and listen to this wretched motherfucker for that long. [/QUOTE] It’s easy. Just think of the morbid fascination you get out of sniffing a carton of spoiled milk, or watching a piece of roadkill being devoured by maggots. ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_Stream](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@Carol\_Stream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_Stream)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bushs-union-of-the-state-the-states-the-union-the-states-are-united-speech/389176/66 "2007-01-24T04:11:02Z")
[QUOTE=El Cid Viscoso] Does anybody have a transcript of the Big Speech? I couldn’t hear shit over Pelosi’s nervous eye-blinking. [/QUOTE] She also kept making weird movements with her mouth. Maybe her dentures were slipping? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bushs-union-of-the-state-the-states-the-union-the-states-are-united-speech/389176/67 "2007-01-24T04:12:51Z")
**BG**? Aromatherapy. Transcendental meditation. Drugs. Something. Soon. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bushs-union-of-the-state-the-states-the-union-the-states-are-united-speech/389176/68 "2007-01-24T04:14:18Z")
[QUOTE=El Cid Viscoso] Does anybody have a transcript of the Big Speech? [/QUOTE] Try [here.](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/23/AR2007012301075.html) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bushs-union-of-the-state-the-states-the-union-the-states-are-united-speech/389176/69 "2007-01-24T04:16:49Z")
[QUOTE=Carol Stream] She also kept making weird movements with her mouth. Maybe her dentures were slipping? [/QUOTE] And this politically signifies . . . ? ---
**Author:** ![Priam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/77aa72/32.png) [@Priam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Priam)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bushs-union-of-the-state-the-states-the-union-the-states-are-united-speech/389176/70 "2007-01-24T04:22:13Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] And this politically signifies . . . ? [/QUOTE] SHE’S A WITCH! ---
**Author:** ![pantom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/34f0e0/32.png) [@pantom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pantom)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bushs-union-of-the-state-the-states-the-union-the-states-are-united-speech/389176/71 "2007-01-24T04:25:02Z")
Does anybody have any idea what he was proposing with that health care tax/not tax/something? Couldn’t make heads or tails of it. ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bushs-union-of-the-state-the-states-the-union-the-states-are-united-speech/389176/72 "2007-01-24T04:26:49Z")
Baby Einstein? _Baby Motherfucking Einstein?_ Baby Motherfucking Einstein is a $200M business? A business, and not a hideous tropical disease set to be eradicated on or before 2012 by WHO? Who bankrolls this $200M Baby Motherfucking Einstein business? I want names, damn it, names that can be copied and pasted onto a deportation list. Holy crap, Bush is secretly one of the greatest philosophers of our time. In pointing out that people spent $200M on that dreck and its merchandise, he revealed subtly as a silk handkerchief falling onto a plush floor, and yet in our collective faces like a pimp-slap, the following message: “See how I got elected? If people will vote with their pocketbooks for Baby Einstein, they’ll do anything. Eat dog shit, join Scientology, hell, even buy a black velvet picture of Jesus riding a stegosaurus and twirling a lariat. Yee haw!” ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bushs-union-of-the-state-the-states-the-union-the-states-are-united-speech/389176/73 "2007-01-24T04:30:46Z")
Too lazy to Google. WTF is “baby Einstien”? ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_Stream](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c2a13f/32.png) [@Carol\_Stream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_Stream)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bushs-union-of-the-state-the-states-the-union-the-states-are-united-speech/389176/74 "2007-01-24T04:32:50Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] And this politically signifies . . . ? [/QUOTE] You go first. What does the following exchange signify politically? [QUOTE=alphaboi867] Is it just me or is Cheney looking more reptilian than usual? [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=BrainGlutton] How would that be possible?! [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bushs-union-of-the-state-the-states-the-union-the-states-are-united-speech/389176/75 "2007-01-24T04:32:59Z")
[QUOTE=Una Persson] even buy a black velvet picture of Jesus riding a stegosaurus and twirling a lariat. Yee haw!" [/QUOTE] Hell, I might buy one of those. It sounds hysterical. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bushs-union-of-the-state-the-states-the-union-the-states-are-united-speech/389176/76 "2007-01-24T04:35:58Z")
[QUOTE=elucidator] Too lazy to Google. WTF is “baby Einstien”? [/QUOTE] DVD’s for babies. Lots of colors and music. Supposed to make 'em smarter. Mine won’t pay any attention to them. More fun to punch daddy in the balls and hear him make that funny noise. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bushs-union-of-the-state-the-states-the-union-the-states-are-united-speech/389176/77 "2007-01-24T04:37:01Z")
[QUOTE=Carol Stream] You go first. What does the following exchange signify politically? [/QUOTE] Easy. Calling Cheney “reptilian” is a reflection on his **moral** character. Commenting on Pelosi’s ill-fitting dentures is a reflection on the skill of her dentist. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bushs-union-of-the-state-the-states-the-union-the-states-are-united-speech/389176/78 "2007-01-24T05:04:19Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] DVD’s for babies. Lots of colors and music. Supposed to make 'em smarter. Mine won’t pay any attention to them. More fun to punch daddy in the balls and hear him make that funny noise. [/QUOTE] Speak for yourself. When my kid was six month old BE’s _Baby Mozart_ was the only think that would hold his attention - and keep him quiet - for half an hour. You have no idea how many showers, quick means, leisurely trips to the bathroom and visits to the SDMB that disk allowed, preventing our minds from snapping like ten-year-old rubber bands. As far as I’m concerned, the Baby Einstein lady deserves, at the very least, a Nobel Peace Prize. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bushs-union-of-the-state-the-states-the-union-the-states-are-united-speech/389176/79 "2007-01-24T05:15:49Z")
NYTimes has put up a nice word frequency [tool for analyzing all of Mr. Bush’s SOTU’s.](http://www.nytimes.com/ref/washington/20070123_STATEOFUNION.html) In seven years, the president has _never_ said ‘Jesus’, that’s every bit as often as he’s mentioned ‘Katrina’ or ‘cupcakes’. However, he did say ‘Osama’ for the first time this year. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2007, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bushs-union-of-the-state-the-states-the-union-the-states-are-united-speech/389176/80 "2007-01-24T05:20:41Z")
[QUOTE=Alessan] Speak for yourself…As far as I’m concerned, the Baby Einstein lady deserves, at the very least, a Nobel Peace Prize. [/QUOTE] You know, just the teensiest drop of chloroform on the little buggers banky… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bushs-union-of-the-state-the-states-the-union-the-states-are-united-speech/389176.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bushs-union-of-the-state-the-states-the-union-the-states-are-united-speech/389176.md?page=5)