State of the Union

Obama is like Michael Jordan back in the day- when the money is on the table, you just know he'll rise to the occasion. Every time he has needed to come up huge- 2004 keynote, Jefferson Jackson dinner in Iowa, Rev. Wright, 2008 nomination acceptance- he's done it. The SOTU was a home run- it struck just the right tone between bipartisanship and rallying the base.

Things I especially liked:

- Acknowledged that health care had been tough and that it wasn't politically easy
- Challenged anyone else to come up with a better way of fixing our system (and I really don't know how anyone can argue with a straight face that it doesn't need to be fixed).
- Don't ask, don't tell- gone this year- it is about time
-  Laid out facts that have been obscured- not a single American has had their taxes raised, millions of people received a tax cut with the stimulus package