The annual presentation of the American president’s wish list, one that never comes to fruition, commences tonight in the well of the House of Representatives as Joe Biden will deliver what we can only hope is his final State of the Union message.
This particular speech increasingly has become a useless affair. Even the most diehard political observers would be hard-pressed to come up with a State of the Union address delivered by a president of either party that had any meaningful impact on policy, or even a rhetorical line that’s worth remembering. For me, the last line from a SOTU speech I can recall was the Axis of Evil section of George W. Bush’s 2002 address. It was just a few months after the 9/11 terror attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., and it was a moment of clarity to identify the coalition of immediate threats the United States faced.
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