In the first State of the Union of his second term, President Bush made clear to Americans tonight that he is not going to play the role of a lame duck President.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
For a member to say, 'I'm a lame duck' violates political science 101.
A lot of bad things happen in lame duck sessions.
The President is not squaring with the American people as to the seriousness of our nation's fiscal condition. It is time for people to stand up and tell the truth.
Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he has one is to hang tough and let whoever succeeds him take the fall.
Well, he can't be dumb, I mean, because he's been president for four years and he's president again, so you're going to get caught out if you're really bad, aren't you? Unless millions and millions of Americans are dumb.
There are people on staff who have made that point, that the upside to a second Bush term is that it makes 'American Dad' work better. To me, the price is too high. I would gladly give up the comedy to have a President Kerry. But you work with what you have.
We don't want a president who fails at domestic and foreign policy.
We will not duck the tough issues, we will lead.
I'm the lamest lame duck there could be.
We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb.