I’m having my first cup of Coffee from my suite’s new coffee maker. Not a bad brew…
As promised last night, here are some quotes for O’reilly about the SOTU (intertwined with some commentary):
Here’s some No Spin data for you: According to a CBS [News] snap poll, 67 percent of Americans believe President Bush has made a convincing case against Saddam Hussein. That’s up 20 points and reflects the success of the State of the Union address.
There’s no question the president’s speech persuaded millions of Americans that military action is now justified in removing Saddam.
Great News! Now lets go take out Saddam already!
But the majority of Americans can be persuaded by logical arguments, and that’s what President Bush did last night. He was very logical.
It’s ashame that a large segment of those Americans that can’t be persuaded by logical arguments seem to go to Brandeis.
In 1998, Saddam Hussein had various weapons of destruction. In 2003, he won’t say what happened to those weapons. That’s it, that’s the logic. So Mr. Bush connects the dots and believes we can’t let this vicious dictator remain in power if he may have anthrax, smallpox, and other almost impossible to trace weapons.
The primary obligation of all Americans is to protect their families, and I don’t want Saddam Hussein to hand a suitcase full of anthrax to some terrorist, which is entirely possible, since he will not account for the anthrax he once had.
So if President Bush is going to remove Saddam Hussein from power, I’m going to support that because I have an obligation to protect my family. I think most Americans see it that way. They reject the argument of no smoking gun because the argument of Iraqi danger is more threatening. It’s simple as that.
That’s self explanitory.
Mr. Bush won big last night.
Exactly!