SOTU

[Doug Henwood]

So what are the odds on the State of the Union effect? My guess is 
that as long as Bush avoids visibly frothing, it will be proclaimed a 
"home run" by the pundits, who will condede that he still has a 
little more work to "close the deal" on the war, but conclude that 
the speech was a masterful and heroic intervention that has changed 
the course of history. Am I being too pessimistic?

Doug