The 2011 State of the Union Address: Enhanced Version

President Obama speaks about moving forward to create jobs, out-compete in the global economy by investing in innovation and education, and win the future for our children and our country. This enhanced version features charts, graphs and other visual aids that accompany the President's speech

Inside the White House: The State of the Union Address

Say What? Michele Bachmann's Revisionist Musings

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By: Nsenga Burton

While others have dismissed Tea Party darling Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn), The Washington Post's Jonathan Capeheart is paying close attention to Bachmann (R-Minn) who gave the Tea Party response to President Obama's State of the Union Address. Bachmann, who has presidential aspirations and wants to cut NASA, public school funding and a host of other things, has an "absolutely amazing" view of history. Her penchant for revising history is quite interesting. Capeheart points out that Bachmann spoke at an Iowans for Tax Relief event over the weekend and "blipped" his radar with this musing on the early settlers, who "had different cultures, different backgrounds, different traditions": CONTINUE....

The 2010 State of the Union Address

President Obama speaks about restoring security for middle class families after a lost decade of declining wages, eroding retirement security and escalating health care and tuition costs.

State of the (Job) Union

By: Jack White

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.

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