GeeBubya’s set to give a speech tomorrow. A speech, not a press conference, no questions will be taken. Everybody’s pretty close mouthed, no big spills of rumors. Odd thing: Showtime is airing a move about him on 9/11 that, by all accounts, its postively knee-pad in its gushing approval. And this very movie is going to be interuppted by GeeDubya’s speech. Strange.
But be that as it may, it offers an excellent opportunity for us two-bit pundits to be totally wrong: whats it gonna be about? A blockbuster? A sparrowfart?
I predict: he will make a speech full of maudlin praise for our troops and “assure” them that he means to stay the course. He will also infer, but offer no proof, that some major headway has been achieved in the snipe hunt for WMD’s. But we’ll have to be patient, and trust him. I predict he will make only passing reference to the economy, as he is attempting to stanch one wound at a time.
Rummy made his special trip to Iraq in order to pick up the anthrax shells and dirty nukes they discovered in Saddam’s secret hideout. George will trot them out for all America to see -tomorrow.
He’s making a speech, right at the start of football season, on a Sunday night?
Definitely what Squink said. No way he schedules a speech for that kind of time slot without having something big & extremely positive for him politically to say.
He will try to claim a victory in the search for WMDs by extropolating a “program” out of an abandoned mini-van.
He will wave the flag.
He will praise the troops and try to get as much reflected glory on himself as humanly possible.
At some point he will begin to glisten and talk about Jesus.*
The fact that he will not answer questions means that this is a purely political event. The intention is to manipulate public opinion not to inform the public.
This line was stolen from Hunter S. Thompson in a recent interview with Aint-It-Cool-News.
I predict little or nothing about WMD. Why rehash that old stuff? More about the economy, I suspect, since various numbers are up. A bit about Iraq, a bit about the War on Terror. Maybe sumthin-sumthin about Israel & roadmaps.
That, or he will appear in a toga, announce the creation of the American Empire. Olive oil stocks go through the roof. Brutus rejoices. SPQA?
Either way, it probably be more ‘sparrowfart’ than blockbuster. Nothing ‘big’ happened in the past while, so I doubt the speech will be ‘big’.
Yeah, but the timing is truly weird. Why schedule it for right after the opening action in football if it isn’t going to be something big?
Odd, just odd.
You know, sometimes I pay more attention to posters who share my paranoia as those who share my political leanings.
This is, point of fact, a really wierd time to schedule a speech, all things considered. I hadn’t thought about the football tie in, just barely knew about the movie.
Note: When I said “no questions will be taken” that was an assumption on my part, no such stipulation has been made. However, speeches are generally billed as such, and questions are not usually a part of “speeches”. So, to be entirely clear, I was relying on reason and not actual statements.
Now, Reeder this is my OP and I expect some niceties to be followed. Recent events, which God Forbid be reviewed again, have led several of our…less progressive…brethren to be…somewhat touchy.
I intend to the conjectural. Make a guess, that sort of thing. I do not intend to open a thread for mere “Bush-bashing”. If you wish to point out the moral bankruptcy and the political nihilism of the Bushiviks, you will enjoy abundant opportunities.
But in this instance, I’m trolling for Wild Ass Analysis.
Same old stuff he’s been peddling all along. Hell, he believes it.
The timing? An attempt to get people to actually watch and listen, since they’ll be in front of the tube anyway. But it’ll just tick people off instead.
Looks like all there is is a desire to have a weapons program. You know, like a letter that says “Shit! I wish we had some nuclear anthrax or somthing!”
Yeow! If that’s the announcement, does he have any idea the world of trouble he just bought for himself and the U.S.? Just plant some damned evidence, like Revtim said.
Really, there is no overstating the amount of damage we’re talking about taking here on the international stage.
No, just can’t be. Has to be something more, just has to be.
Heh. So it drops from actual WMDs, to a WMD program, to the desire of starting a WMD program. As a thought experiment, is it even possible for the bar drop any lower? Being able to spell WMD?
Shit, I almost feel sorry for Blair. I guess the “45 minutes to deploy WMDs” really meant “45 minutes until we have a round table meeting and come up with mission statement for the stationary for when we start our WMD program someday.”