Anyone watching Bush's address?

Well the title says it all.

Yeah. As a mental health professional, viewing the diversity of mental illness is sort of a hobby with me.

he first and foremost accepted responsibility for failures and setbacks, i am not quite sure whether this will garner any further political credit, not with what he is asking. or doing i should say.

He said one very interesting thing I turned on the tv about 1 minute before he said that our support was conditional. Thats a change, I think that 2007 should be an insanely "Interesting" year. I am getting the feeling that this is an were going all out speech.

That;s so funny! He just said that the terrorists want to destroy the American way of life. So far the only real danger to the American way of life is George W. Bush.

That, and a few hijacked airliners flying into buildings.

Honestly...at this point...I don't care what he has to say. I don't trust him, I have no faith in him. Listening to him will only give me ulcers. I pray for 2008 to come ASAP.

Well and congress. lets be honest Nick we could elect Stalin with Hitler as the VP and there is not much they could do if The house and Senate were to well you know, do their actual jobs.

The hijacked airliners ended the lives of 3000 Americans - they did nothing whatsoever to "threaten the American way of life."

Deleting several of our constitutional protections however, does.

Thats funny. My 'way of life" has certainly been impacted as a result of that terrorism... guess you dont travel much, have cumbersome security rules at work and at clients, or know any families that suffered losses.

... off shore wire transfers have sure become a bitch too.

you summed that up right!

And, oh yeah, a threat to Iran and Syria. Because that's what we need.

If we're lucky, we just might be able to undo the damage this administration has done by 2020..

After listening to what Bush had to say this evening, I'm sick to my stomach. After listening to Dick Durbin's reaction to Bush's address, I am not very hopeful.. Sounds like we're going to be in Iraq for a long time.

What truly sickens me is all this talk of democracy, yet "we the people" apparently have no say whatsoever on what's going to happen with Iraq. How can we be talking about democracy in Iraq when we don't even have it here at home?

Nick...even though I frequently disagree with you...you usually have something intelligent to add. This is clearly a departure from that. The events of September 11th clearly altered our way of life beyond stricter airline constraints. Honestly...I expected better from you.

I assume Katrina was almost as devastating to the American way of life then, since it killed a couple of thousand people and devastated an entire city. I suppose it hasn't impacted the efficiency of air travel though, which we all know is critical to the American way.

Really though, the two things (9/11 and Bush) have worked in unison to attack the American way of life--I don't think he would have managed as much as he did without it (no, I'm not one of the people who thinks he wanted it or caused it to happen). I don't think you're far off in that sense.

Personally, if you want to seperate the two out, I suspect that what Bush has done and tried to do to this country has been far more damaging to it than 9/11 could have been. In terms of lasting impact on the world stage I believe that the war in Iraq has killed more Americans and will hurt us in the long run much, much more.

That's my favorite part of the preamble, actually.

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure access to easy offshore money transfers, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Convenient, Hassle-free Air Travel to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America

I win.

That is funny, I thought we were discussing 'way of life'... not 'inalienable (sp?) rights'

But, that was a funny post from both the west and east coast lawyers.

The inalienable rights bit is in the Declaration.

And thank you. Mine was better.

Well, A) that difficulty with travel, and cumbersome security rules you are talking is the deletion of consitutional protections that I am talking about. B) the losses suffered by the families (allowing for a 4 to 1 expansion - for family members,) while tragic, really doesn't account for the lives of the other 299,988,000 Americans.

Anyone watching Bush's address?

I had to clip my toenails, darn I missed it.

Not saying that Al Qaeda is more of a threat to "our American way of life" than Bush, but I do appreciate going to work in the morning and not getting all blowed up before lunch break.

To answer the topic's query: No I am not, it hurts when I do that.

You didn't miss much, in fact it was all quite predictable..

Regardless, the preamble is not a definition of 'way of life', perhaps 'liberties'... but not 'way of life'.