Jan 24

Looking Back on Obama’s Five Previous Addresses to Congress: Waste, Fraud, and Abuse from the Podium

Tonight, President Barack Obama will deliver his third State of the Union Address–and his sixth address to a joint session of Congress. That’s more than either President Bush or President Clinton had addressed in any single term.
Despite his purported skill as an orator, none of Obama’s addresses to Congress has been particularly successful. They are typically remembered more for the rancor they caused than for any positive effects.

Obama is expected to make his inequality the focus of his address. That’s an important campaign theme, as well as a refrain of the Occupy Wall Street movement….

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