SOTU

[Nathan Newman]

Yes-- assuming the speech is decent, it will be treated as moving the issue
forward, but "serious questions remain."  There is still establishment
meltdown around support for war and I don't buy a speech will change that.

-- Nathan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
To: "lbo-talk" <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 2:45 PM
Subject: SOTU

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