Reason Live Tweets Obama's Syria Speech Tomorrow Tonight at 9 p.m.

UPDATE: The feed is here.

Visit us here at the Hit&Run blog tomorrow tonight at 9 p.m., when live tweet President Barack Obama's televised prime time remarks about Syria.

In the meantime, why not follow Reason's paper trail on the issue so far:

War in Syria: The Endless Quest for Credibility: Our global standing won't suffer if we refuse to bomb Syria by Steve Chapman

Tony Blair Says War in Iraq Made UK 'Hesitant' To Back Military Intervention in Syria by Matthew Feeney

Has There Been a Rapture of Anti-War Celebrities? If Not, Where The Hell Are They? by Nick Gillespie

And much, much more.

Or enjoy this video: Three Reasons Not To Go To War with Syria

Also, watch for a post-speech response by Senator Rand Paul who has already demanded that the president call off his push for a war vote while diplomatic efforts continue.

Comments

[DEATFBIRSECIA]

"The president believes that congressional authorization enhances the argument."

There's your function of Congress, folks: to enhance the argument.

[Hugh Akston]

Congress is like the baby formula they use to cut cocaine. That way snorting is actually good for you!

[BakedPenguin]

They use baby laxative to cut cocaine.

[Almanian!]

Well....SHIT

[Episiarch]

A little acetone will help you purify your cocaine. No need for that baby laxative to be in there.

[Heroic Mulatto]

But what if it's the baby laxative you're into?

[Pro Libertate]

The shield turns the fast blow, admits the slow kindjal!

[Hyperion]

I am sure it will be brilliant and that all of the sudden everyone in Murika will be doing a war dance and singing songs about the great dear leader.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Drinking game: If you're watching this crap instead of drinking, you lose.

[Paul.]

I usually read the live tweet while drinking. What do I win (or lose)?

[Cdr Lytton]

A Pottery Barn gift certificate.

[Fist of Etiquette]

...IN THE FACE.

[Archduke Trousersenthusiast]

I called the hospital. They will have a new liver on standby.

[Hyperion]

I can write the speech for him:

We have to act. And we have to act now.

Because, I'm standing on a big pile of dead children, a really big pile! There's like 400 of them.

And uhhh, the last time I was standing on a pile of dead children so that I could get my way, uhhh, it didn't work, and I threw a hissy fit.

Now, let me be clear. This is a really, really BIG pile of dead children here, and if I don't get my way this time, I will throw an even bigger hissy fit. I mean it! I'm painting a red line here!

[Paul.]

You didn't start with "Let me be clear..."

Style fail.

[Hyperion]

It's there, though, in the last paragraph.

[Paul.]

Upon reflection, you're right, he never starts with it, he punctuates with it. Ok, you're hired.

[creech]

And, "Now some folks say it is o.k. to murder children. But we aren't talking Detroit here, we're talking Damascus..."

[Almanian!]

+1....hundred murders

[Rich]

"God bless you, God bless America, and God bless Vladimir Putin."

[Jordan]

You left out any mention of wreckers, Kulaks, deregulation, and obstructionist Republicans.

[Apatheist ?_??]

Better yet, I'll be watching the US-Mexico game instead.

[Pro Libertate]

What's the point? Russia already solved the problem. Obama looks weak and lacking in the diplomatic graces, and America is embarrassed on a worldwide scale.

You know what the U.S. could use? Recall for federal officials.

[Heroic Mulatto]

Amend "recall" to "summary execution" and I'm all in.

[PapayaSF]

I believe in the two-term limit: one term in office, one term in prison.

[Hugh Akston]

Obama still has to get up there and go through the motions. In spite of literally everyone who watches knowing that he has no control of the situation, and not even his own team wants to listen to him. He has to get up there.

It will be like watching Seth McFarlane host the Oscars with diarrhea.

[Pro Libertate]

If he were at all cool, he'd lead with Syria for like fifteen seconds, explaining that it's all settled and groovy, then spend the rest of the time talking about "Barry's Top Ten Bitches."

[Hugh Akston]

His speech should be this and nothing more.

[Pro Libertate]

Say, that's Charlie Murphy. Charlie Murphy!

[Almanian!]

I say, that's Buck Nasty from the Playa Haters' Ball!

[Pro Libertate]

For anyone who has not seen Charlie Murphy's True Hollywood Stories on Chappelle, I highly recommend them.

[Almanian!]

Charlie Murphy's bits on Rick James and Prince will live in cmedy history as two of the greatest ever.

"And then he made...pancakes..."

[Pro Libertate]

No kidding, those skits are some of the funniest things I've seen on TV in a very, very long time.

[Aloysious]

This speech will be the verbal equivalent of this car chase, as set to the tune 'Yakety Sax'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUYbu5DJA1U

Oh yeah, SFW

[Eduard van Haalen]

Movie stunt drivers are like, "no *way* are we doing stuff like that!"

[Almanian!]

I'll vote for the President's third term if he drops, "President Assad's methods have become.....unsound...."

[Pro Libertate]

I bet he dislikes Apocalypse Now and Heart of Darkness. I cannot abide such bad taste.

[Almanian!]

The horror...

[Pro Libertate]

It was a lie. And the more I saw them, the more I hated lies.

[Almanian!]

You're an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks to collect a bill.

[Almanian!]

I bet Putin's said that to Obama's face at least once. Adn then stared him down till Obama looked away, PWND...

[Warty]

The horror...the horror.

[Pro Libertate]

The only problem with that is that Obama isn't Willard. I see him more as Lance or maybe Larry Fishburne. Or maybe Chef.

[The Last American Hero]

All he has to do now is talk about how he gazed into Putin's eyes and saw freedom in his soul or some such nonsense, and his transformation into Bush III will be complete.

[Ken Shultz]

Obama totally sucks donkey balls.

[Tony]

The sum total of what conservative political philosophy has become.

[General Butt Naked]

Still more nuanced than "BOOOOSH!", though.

[Lady Bertrum]

Ken was being literal. Obama actually physically does suck donkey balls.

[Killazontherun]

What kind of national chain can afford to make enemies of more than half of its customer base? I would certainly switch druggist if I was in the habit of going there on this alone:

http://www.economicpolicyjourn.....t-for.html

Rite Aid has announced plans to host insurance agents in its stores in a few weeks to promote Obamacare. All Rite Aid stores ? more than 4,600 across 31 states and Washington, D.C. ? will also offer propaganda informational brochures about the Affordable Care Act.

Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius made the announcement Monday alongside Rite Aid CEO John Standley.

Add Rite Aid to the crony capitalist list.

[Zoobs]

I'm betting Obama says "I" at least 40 times in his speech.

[Rich]

That's a pretty safe bet.

How many times will he say "red line"?
I'll bet 6.

[General Butt Naked]

Sounds like we have the beginnings of a drinking game here.

[Killazontherun]

Haven't put down the glass since he got reselected.

[Marshall Gill]

Reason drinking games about Obama speeches are not games but attempted suicide.

[PapayaSF]

"My fellow Americans, my clever combination of fake gaffes and seemingly boneheaded sabre-rattling have brought us to a solution to the Syrian crisis. My JournoList minions are even now composing elaborate, superficially convincing rationalizations. Your Facebook walls will soon be filled with memes singing my praises, posted by that girl you went to high school with and that guy you barely know who believes everything Team Blue tells him to believe."

"Of course, Assad can now safely use his air force to bomb rebels and civilians, and Russia has extended their influence and reputation, and all those chemical weapons will probably never be given up, but hey, we'll just deal with all that later."

[Archduke Trousersenthusiast]

Has the US Nuked Syria yet?

[Pro Libertate]

I saw that a week or so ago. Prince moved up a notch in my estimation for going there.