but from the sound of what Tony Snow is saying about the SOTU tonight, it sounds like a bit of the foreign-policy half of the speech tonight will be an amplification of the second inaugural message — democracy, democracy, democracy. (Basing this on a conference call going on right now.)

There also sounds like there will be a much-needed emphasis on how this Iraq war remains essential to our security — something people certainly could afford to hear, and a case that the White House hasn’t always made well over the years.