Whenever President Barack Obama gets into a political bind, he extricates himself with a speech. If that pattern continues, we can expect some amazing oratory in Obama’s first State of the Union address. Never in his meteoric public life has Obama been in such a mess. His signature proposal for health care reform is on life support. His Democratic Party is reeling fromthe loss of Ted Kennedy’s Massachusetts Senate seat to an upstart Republican in a pickup truck. The Supreme Court has derailed any hope he might have retained for reducing the power of lobbyists by striking down bans on independent corporate campaign spending. And the unemployment rate is close to 11 percent overall, and at more than 15 percent among African Americans.
State of the (Job) Union....
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