’They Deserve a Vote’ Can Be More Than Rhetoric
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Feb. 15 (Bloomberg) -- State of the Union addresses aretraditionally laundry lists of policy proposals. U.S. PresidentBarack Obama’s this week started that way, but it ended as themost emotional speech before a joint session of Congress inmodern memory.
The theatrics of the event also introduced a new approachto framing the public debate that could yield unexpectedvictories for the president in the next year or two.