Planning for this year’s speech began in earnest in December, and by Christmas the speechwriting shop had an outline ready for Bush. While McGurn headed off with Bush to the Middle East in early January, Thiessen and Michel came up with a draft and sent it out to the president.
Does anyone else find the fact that they put so much effort in planning a speech a little bit sickening? Maybe if this kind of effort was put into, gee, I don’t know anything else this country might have been better off? All smoke and mirrors. The fact that this guy was worried about his state of the Union in April of 2007 just shows you where his priorities are.