Obligatory State of the Union post
Man, that was full of crap. My favorite part was when he said "Key provisions of the PATRIOT Act are set to expire next year" and was answered by rogue applause.

I don't have time to document all his b.s., and while I've found lists of Dubya's speech lies, I haven't found any annotated ones. Has anyone else seen anything like this? I haven't kept up with politics as much as I'd like lately, and I don't want to join the Idiot In Chief in spreading misinformation.

But here's one thing that particularly unnerved me:
"I know that some people question if America is really in a war at all. They view terrorism more as a crime - a problem to be solved mainly with law enforcement and indictments. After the World Trade Center was first attacked in 1993, some of the guilty were indicted, tried, convicted and sent to prison. But the matter was not settled. The terrorists were still training and plotting in other nations, and drawing up more ambitious plans. After the chaos and carnage of Sept. 11, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers. The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got."

So, er, we should have waged a war after the 1993 bombing? Meh?

Also interesting:
"Since we last met in this chamber, combat forces of the United States, Great Britain, Australia, Poland and other countries enforced the demands of the United Nations, ended the rule of Saddam Hussein."

I was under the impression that we rather explicitly pissed off the United Nations by cowboying into Iraq when/how we did.

Then there was the stuff I knew would bug me. Insistence that the economy is great, along with references to the "death tax" and "marriage penalty" (just go ahead and call them the Why Should My Children Have To Work For A Living Tax and the Middle-Class Suburban People Penalty). Social values out of the 50s (abstinence education, marriage = one man + one woman, heavy-handed and repeated references to God). Dang, John Kerry looks good after all that blather.

And, as a bonus, massive hypocrisy about the evils of drugs. Most irrelevant rant of the night: how pro athletes on 'roids are a bad influence on the kiddies. Not incorrect, but...rearrange deck chairs on the Titanic much?

The proposal to fund programs to help ex-cons get back into society sounds good, forcing me to wonder what's wrong with it. There's always something.

I took a phone call towards the end and missed the final, God-heavy punch:
"My fellow citizens, we now move forward, with confidence and faith. Our nation is strong and steadfast. The cause we serve is right, because it is the cause of all mankind. The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true."

Yes! America is right because God says so!

Finally, I heard Dubya utter the non-existent word "uncertainness" during the speech. I wrote it down. No online transcipt has it. Am I going deaf, or does the smirking chimp just get his verbal gaffes automatically corrected for official record?

I shoulda done the drinking game.