From the start, the speech focused on what Obama has accomplished over the past three years. His first words after greeting the audience concerned him welcoming home soldiers from the Middle East. “For the first time in nine years, there are no Americans fighting in Iraq,” he boasted. “For the first time in two decades, Osama bin Laden is not a threat to this country.” The president wanted there to be no doubt in the American public’s mind: He promised to end the war in Iraq, and he did. He promised to capture and kill Osama bin Laden, and he did. This was a State of the Union by a president who wants people to know that he gets things done.
My take on last night’s State of the Union address is up now at American Review.