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Description: NEWSFEED: 1/31/06 STATE OF UNION ADDRESS, GW BUSH SPEECH THE USUAL SUBJECTS, SOME PEOPLE IN THE AUDIENCE NOT PAYING ATTENTION ;People standing and clapping, Dick Cheney walking to his chair, P-In John Kerry, Frist, Obama, Delay, Hillary Clinton, McCain ;Mingling chatting shaking hands...Big guy starts speaking, Cheney speaking, Laura Bush arriving to applause, guests file in, Supreme Court, Cabinet ;And a flurry of handshakes and other greetings starts up again...Alito keeps looking around awkwardly...Some guy peeks thru doorway, GW Bush enters, more greetings, applause ;Somehow Bush gets past these photographers...Bush going around greeting people, reaches podium ;Bush takes a sip of water, standing applause, naughty Kerry joking with his neighbor, speech begins, more applause ;Real speech begins...stuff about freedom, leadership; McCain clapping, applause...freedom spreading in foreign countries & in U.S., good v.s. evil ;That gets a standing ovation, except from this one guy who's busy talking, tsk tsk ;Now its U.S. role in international politics (P-In Iraqi guests), Iraq War (entire right wing standing o) ;Woman wearing a 'festive' scarf applauding...speech goes on to soldiers in Iraq, family stands, Bush winks; Now the speech is back to freedom in Middle East...Lieberman applauding, Chertoff applauding ;The subject is Iran (yes, they worked the word 'hostage' in there right away), aiding third world countries, homeland security ;Bush mentions the Patriot Act (no boos this time), surveillance, (Hillary Clinton smiling like it's Christmas morning...???) ;Call for bipartisan support for war on terror (again, Clinton chewing gum...and Kerry just pulled out a pea-shooter); Now it's the economy, an allusion to immigration, tax cuts (this divides the room neatly in half, wow), the deficit ;The applause is weak, but the two front rows on the right make a brief standing o anyway, which Bush himself interrupts; John McCain is really happy about this subject (Ear-mark reform, whatever that is); Bush dolefully mentions failed Social Security reform, once again dividing the room neatly in half) ;There's a difference- when the left stands to applaud, the absence of applause on the right is literally unanimous ;Bush recaptures the limelight with a wag of his finger, goes on to the free market, guest worker program ;Chertoff clapping with unusually long, bony hands, healthcare gets a big standing o, then again one-sided applause ;Frist applauding the call for more amateur vivisection, speech goes on to energy, applause, let's hear it for the switchgrass ;Education, camera finds the one kid in the audience...the people sitting behind her are deep in their own discussion ;Scientific research (Cheney starts picking at his face at the word 'nanotechnology'), education, society itself ;Bush introduces Roberts & Alito, Bush sips water, alludes to stem cell research, youth, camera finds Laura Bush ;Katrina clean-up (the camera finds a defeated looking governor Blanco), AIDS, (Kerry clapping) ;Bush wraps up speech invoking historical figures & God Bless America (Carlin: 'God bless us all, right in the mouth') ;And, as always is the case, Bush begins the tedious process of greeting people on his way to the door, Frist tagging along; They're having him sign programs...Bush kisses several women in a row...nearing the door...chair bangs gavel ;T/H governor Tim Kane giving Democratic Party response;

Keywords: State of the Union