Union, State of
Tomorrow (Tuesday, Jan. 31) is the President's annual state of the union address. Delightfully enough, there are folks around the local blogsphere getting bloggy with it already:
- Beth at Greensboring.com posts that there will be a sort of counter-SOTU event in downtown GSO.
- Joe Killian at Automatic Writing wonders out loud whether Beth's is such a good idea.
- More local SOTU thought from Our World, Our View.
- Further a field, some MSM background via the Wx Post from Dan Froomkin and Dan Balz
So here's my question: How many of you out in Scoop-land will sit down to watch Bush's speech Tuesday night?
Geek that I am, I've watched most SOTU addresses since Reagan's second or third, and continue to do so now as a matter of professional hazard. But I also tend to get distracted during any long speech that I'm not writing about directly, and typically end up having to read it the next day.
Will you watch it? Read it? Ignore it? Listen to what someone else tells you about it? Read a summary the next day?
What do you usually take away from the speech? Is it as important to watch live today as it way maybe back in the 70s or 80s?