Great Dem quotes re SOTU made just pre and then post address.

[papau]

Dean: “The State of the Union may look rosy from the White House balcony or the suites of George Bush's wealthiest donors. But hard-working Americans will see through this president's effort to wrap his radical agenda with a compassionate ribbon…(Bush’s) empty proposals do nothing to address the real problems facing working Americans — problems his presidency has only made worse."

Kerry: “I think there's just two different worlds here, the world the president talks about and the world Americans are living in,…While CEO pay is up and Wall Street profits are up, the average American only earned three cents on the dollar more. Workers are hurting all across America….After four years in office, this president still doesn't understand what's happening in living rooms across this country."

Edwards: Said in speech called “he State of the Two Americas”, “When the president says, 'The state of our union is strong,' you need to ask 'which union Mr. President?'….`Because the state of George Bush's union -- the America of the Washington lobbyists, special interests and his CEO friends -- is doing just fine. They get what they want, whenever they want…(Bush) believes that compassionate language and empty slogans will make working Americans forget the burdens they face every day."

Clark: “The sad fact is that today, two years after he coined the term, we've got a new axis of evil ... of fiscal policies that threaten our future, foreign policies that threaten our security and domestic policies that put families dead last…( Bush will) spend billions on the war in Iraq, missile defense, and sending a man to Mars. But he's going to spend a grand total of $120 million for job training. That's just $15 for each unemployed American. That's not much more than the cost of bus fare to the training center, lunch, and coffee….(the speech was) nothing but special effects (to hide policy shortcomings)”

Lieberman: (Bush) “seems to be in a state of denial about the state of our economy, our health care system and our relations with the world….(Bush is trying to) camouflage his irresponsible, divisive, right-wing agenda and repackage himself as a centrist compassionate conservative around election time."

Pelosi: “...America must be a light to the world, not just a missile….The president led us into the Iraq war on the basis of unproven assertions without evidence…He embraced a radical doctrine of pre-emptive war unprecedented in our history; and he failed to build a true international coalition…(Bush )has pursued a go-it-alone foreign policy that leaves us isolated abroad and that steals the resources we need for education and health care here at home…(and needs to work through international institutions) instead of billions of dollars in no-bid contracts for politically connected firms such as Halliburton, and an insistence on American dominance in Iraq…let us share the burden and responsibility with others, so that together we can end the sense of American occupation and bring our troops home safely when their mission is completed."

Daschle: (America can’t make permanent the tax cuts because) “America can't afford to keep rewarding the accumulation of wealth over the dignity of work….massive tax cuts that were supposed to spark an economic expansion have instead led to an economic exodus…(Our) first challenge is to strengthen the economy — the right way….Since President Bush took office, the average tuition at a four-year public college has increased by nearly $600…The America our parents gave us was a place in which everyone had a chance to go to a good school, and then to college, community college or vocational school, regardless of family income. Our children deserve nothing less…I think what you're going to see is a contrast in priorities…Rather than a society that restricts its rewards to a privileged few, we need an `opportunity society' that allows all Americans to succeed.”.

[HawkerHurricane]

1. Great quotes...

cut and pasted and sent to everyone on my email list.