I need more booze

Damn... I feel ill after watching that.

State of the Union address just ended, was watching it over on CSpan2 so I could just see the speach without all the commentary and crap.

Fun things I noticed...

Only twice ( Sandra Day O'connor's being thanked for being a judge and the very end of the speach ) did the entire audience stand to applaud. Only twice. Most of the audience stood up at the point where he was talking about fighting AIDs, but not all of it.

If you saw pictures of the audience standing to applaud, they were probably of the group to the right of the podium ( the president's left ) which was seated pretty well entirely white republican and they stood and applauded at every damned thing he said with nice pasted on smiles ( easily identifiable by the ladies in bright orange and red outfits in the upper left of the section ). The fun bits were when CSpan panned over to look at them ( and the rest of the audience ) between bits of applause and you would see people yawning or looking at papers they were holding.

So, Medicare and Medicaid costs are going to sky rocket and they need to be 'dealt with by congress'. But their should also be cheap affordable healthcare for everyone. Anyone else hear that and left thinking of "Soylent Green" or "Logan's Run"?

The thing I hate about all the talk of 'human cloning bad!' is that it is so heavily reminiscent of old bans like the one on doing surgery on corpses at all which slowed down the development of medicine for so long in the Medievel or Rennaisance era's. I want human cloning! I want experimentation! Medical advances and scientific progress are in my mind inherently good!

Maybe I missed a medical advance, but did he really say we could cure HIV during that? I seem to remember a bit about 'Prevent, treat and defeat AIDs' during the speach.

I also enjoyed the bit where, and I forget already which bill it was, that he mentioned congress voting down a measure he wanted passed last year and a good chunk of the audience interrupted him applauding that. He had a very non-plussed expression on his face at that point which was a nice contrast to the smirk he had the rest of the time.

Really hope to find a transcript of it up soon. Be fun to go over and point out the logical fallacies I have already forgotten and the various things that he really didn't talk about.