I think it is very important that we all take the time out to listen to the State of the Union address, whether or not we like or dislike the President or his policies. Somehow it always makes me proud to be an American.
It was especially interesting for our household to watch this year as we have a German Foreign exchange student living with us and we got to focus on the traditions surrounding the speech as well as the content. (Isabelle is quite the channel surfer and about two minutes into the preliminary introductions she had switched to a movie and we had to get her to switch it back...
) The clapping and standing ovations got to her - why don't they let him talk, it would be much quicker!
I really liked the way the president acknowledged Nancy Pelosi (Speaker of the House). And I was surprised to hear that the speech had been distributed before he spoke. Do they always do that?
And now we get to listen to the spin...
