"The State of the Union is ... "
Blood drawn by the lash and drawn by the sword
I was expecting a little tone-poem. I was wrong.
One Hawaiian about another
It may have been better than it sounded.
A speech that does the job
Choose your metaphor for the 42nd president: brain part or radio personality
Because he talks to people as if they are smart
A better start than the Democrats might have expected
The President ends his Prayer Breakfast presentation with a variation on his otherwise standard concluding phrase
Why did Obama go out of his way to mention old disputes with his Secretary of State? Maybe there was a long-term plan...
What the president said, and why he said it
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America must be strong. I agree!
As policy and politics, who knows whether tonight's speech will succeed. As a speech, it was successful in several ways.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask why we're getting so short.
A rare moment in democratic politics: an influential figure gets to reflect on an important speech he gave fifty years ago.
A speech that was not just a waste of breath
Concept maps showing the Palin/Obama and Obama/Obama contrasts
A speech we will remember