State of the Union

To be honest, I didn't watch the President's speech last night. During the first two years of his presidency, I watched a fair number of Bush's speeches and press confrences. Since then, I think have come to know what to expect and have grow tired of his style.

It seems the speech has polled well, but not as well as last year's state of the union. It appears that Rove's strategy of "confuse the middle" (as Paul Krugman put it in his last column) is at least having some effect. Whether the SOTU will have a real impact on his approval/re-elect numebrs remains to be seen.

Oh yes, check out The Poor Man's State of the Union Speech summary.