The Hug

There has been much written and said about the State of the Union speech the other night, but it now appears that lasting impression of the speech will be the hug between the mother of a slain Marine and a Iraqi women whose father was killed by Saddam. Here are a couple of columns about the power of that hug:

John Podhoretz - New York Post
John Kass - Chicago Tribune

Of course the idiot left also had thoughts about the hug. Failed commediene Janeane Garofalo had this to say about the speech (hat tip TKS):

"The inked fingers and the position of them, which is gonna be a 'Daily Show' photo already, of them signaling in this manner [does the Nazi salute], as if they have solidarity with the Iraqis who braved physical threats against their lives to vote as if somehow these inked-fingered Republicans have something to do with that. And also, the bit of theater about the very distraught parents of the soldier who had died, the point is not if this was a real moment, if it was staged, if it was PR. The point is, is those parents and their son were misled about why that young man went into Iraq. And when he wrote a letter to his mother saying, 'It's my job to protect you now,' protect her from what? The imminent threat of Saddam Hussein and his weapons of mass destruction? So don't bring up, 'Is it helpful if the Democrats make some noise' when they're being lied to. That's not helpful, that's not helpful to pundits like you maybe, but it is not helpful to the country when a Republican President and his partisan Republican Party continue to perpetuate myth and dishonesty on the country."