As a new resident of US, I saw my first State of the Union speech by President Bush on TV tonight. I didn’t expect this to be particularly eventful, but after the first few minutes I couldn’t take the constant ovations which became just a huge distraction. After few more minutes, I started to realize the synchronized, orchestrated standing ovations of the right part of the audience and then left part and followed by the entire audience giving standing ovations making me realize depending on what the topic was (driven by republicans or the democrats), the republicans (or democrats) of the crowd would give standing ovation. And as true sports fan each camp was sitting together.

So what did he say? No idea as I was too distracted by the applauds and synchronized ovations, just like a football game. I found it amusing though…