SOTU
Ken Shepherd blogged the State Of The Union almost line-by-line, as did Stephen Green.

My thoughts:
Aside from the pure Clintonism, like money for drug testing in schools, it was pretty good. I liked the emphasis on the Iraq and terrorism, and especially this line linking the Iraq war to Libya's WMD surrender:

For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible. And no one can now doubt the word of America.

And he had an excellent response to all those ninnies who think the greatest nation on Earth should let a bunch of European socialists decide its foreign policy, first listing our REAL allies:

Some critics have said our duties in Iraq must be internationalized. This particular criticism is hard to explain to our partners in Britain, Australia, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Thailand, Italy, Spain, Poland, Denmark, Hungary, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Romania, the Netherlands. . . . Norway, El Salvador and the 17 other countries that have committed troops to Iraq.

and then raising a big middle finger to Jacques Chirac, Gerhard Schroeder, John Kerry, and the rest of the traitors:

There is a difference, however, between leading a coalition of many nations and submitting to the objections of a few. America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country.

Full text here.

Marc