Okay -- A short list of the groups of people who are privy to the State of U. "speech" (reading) before hand and how much before hand would probably be helpful to the unwashed masses.... Julie Krueger ========Original Message======== Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: Best line from the State of the Union Date: 1/24/2007 10:48:31 P.M. Central Standard Time From: _rpaul@xxxxxxxxx (mailto:rpaul@xxxxxxxx) To: _lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) Sent on: > A number of blogs and other news sources have reported that Jim Webb > tore up the speech the party prepared for him and wrote his own. No reason to think he didn't. He's written a number of novels, and a work of non-fiction about the 'Scots-Irish' experience in America. Maybe Bush could pin the tail on a sentence every now and then, but to expect him to write the text of a 50 minute (?) speech might be too much. (Julie: Webb would have seen the text of Bush's talk in advance.) Robert Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html