Copyrighted Image? DMCA | Prior to the speech, White House aides were saying, with pride, that it would not be a routine laundry list of proposals. But the address did not fully escape that typical State-of-the-Union hazard. But the president did not dwell on health care. There was no reference to "Wall Street"; he barely mentioned financial reform. He said nothing about gun control. His two paragraphs on the Afghanistan war were obligatory. To win the future--and the next election--the president has to hope that he has figured out the right cost/benefit ratio. |