THEY'RE TRICK QUESTIONS:

Obama’s SOTU Has Vanished Without a Trace (RICH KARLGAARD, 1/31/11, Forbes)

What happened? Where did Obama’s SOTU go? The music is gone and no echoes can be heard. Gone in one week. Is the problem us and our ADD culture? Did the terrible shooting and miraculous recovery of Gabby Giffords hand Obama one of those unrepeatable emotional moments? Has Egypt reminded Americans, again, of the flipside of Obama’s youth and brainy idealism – inexperience and paralysis?

Maybe it was those. Maybe, too, it was the SOTU speech itself. Some stories, songs and wines get better on the second experience, their richness revealed as layers. Some things are the opposite; analysis and second helpings show mostly what is not there. Obama’s 2011 SOTU is apparently one of those.

There was nothing in the SOTU that resonated for even a week!

The real question is: can anyone remember a word of any of his speeches, other than the race one he butchered?

Posted by Orrin Judd at February 1, 2011 6:13 AM