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| Oxymoronic SOTU |
A quick preview of the president's State of the Union.would be remiss if it did not include the notion that the president is going to take the opportunity to use the opportunity as a campaign speech. Indeed, many see it as the president's kick-off of his 2012 re-election effort (aside from the myriad of fundraisers that have been going on for months). The president's speech in that spirit will do three things. It will argue that the country is hurting and it will require more of his efforts to fight income inequality. Secondly, in an oxymoron destined to go mostly unchecked, it will call for more spending and lower deficits. Finally he will work in there somewhere, a narrative that he hopes will hold is that the country is spinning its wheels because of a Do Nothing Congress.
What is that going to look like?
