Initially, I thought that that the windows in the background of President Bush’s address to the nation looked somehow eerie, sort of like images from a horror movie. I expected some black lagoon like creature to some through the window. As I got more used to it, I wondered if we would see Markos Moulitsas Zúniga’s head pop up with a bunch of supporters and then have him rush in.

My mind wandered to think about how much it reminded me of http://vietnam.vassar.edu/doc14.html >Nixon’s "Vietnamization," speech of November 3, 1969. Although I must say that Nixon’s speech was much better.

I then thought about some of the work I’ve been doing with systems like Second Life, and it struck me that Bush almost appeared life like. The biggest problem, however, was the speech itself. I suspect a good Markov Chain Generator could have done a better job.

As to the responses, Jack Reed did quite well. I also thought that Joe Biden did a good job, although I wondered if he has been sitting next to Mike Gravel a little too much recently. I hope neither of them were tapping their feet. Rudy Giuliani returned me to the initial horror movie motif. The way his eyes bulged as he spoke made me think that whatever had been lurking outside the window and already gotten to him.

For me, however, the only person who looked or sounded presidential was John Edwards during his paid advertisement.