Obama: 'America is back!'

Shovel ready: Obama's brass warfare "Lower the temperature in this town."

Hillary (crying over spilled milk):  "A great speech, Mr. President." Pearls before swine.

Have not (The Most Famous Secretary Since Fawn Hall) and Have (Apple Heiress).

Who's in Michelle Obama's box?

Chart courtesy The White House.

Watch Obama's SOTU "standard" or "enhanced!" Last year it was "we do big things" and "the Sputnik moment."  This year "brought to you by the Soros Fund."


This year:  "We know how to fix it." Problems? "We know how to solve them."  Transcript

Must-read Wash Post fact check. "O Uses Buffett's Gal Friday as a Speech Prop" NYP
"The President launched his campaign Tuesday night" NYDN
"Obama’s speech was flat" Wash Post columnist Dana Milbank

Wash Post's Hank Stuever:  ABC kicked off its broadcast of President Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday night with the graphics and language that would accompany a reality-style showdown, in which a long rumored comeback (that would be the president’s) finally takes center stage. ABC started with grainy images of the Republicans attacking the president’s record.“Can he rally our country and our government in the middle of an election year?” the narrator wondered in reality’s unmistakable tone of hype, boxing rings, movie trailers. Keywords flashed across the screen — programming for airheads. “Now! Tonight . . . ”

 
Stuever:  "Obama droned . . .  As expected, Obama’s best work was achieved by walking us once again across the precarious rope bridge of class divide."