VOX POPULI: 'WHY, BUSH, WHY?'

The Hickory Daily Record sent a reporter out to Shell's Bar B-Q to see what was on ordinary people's minds on the eve of El Presidente's State of the Union address, and the poor reporter couldn't find a single citizen who wasn't ready to tongue-lash the president on a whole range of topics but especially on the war. Read it.

And that's in one of the most thoroughly and dependably Republican counties in the state.