[Slippery Jim]

The question is whether the GOP leadership is thinking one move ahead of this strategy. So far, their inattention to the three important issues (jobs, jobs, and jobs) indicates that they'd be caught flat-footed.

[BenLurkin]

The Republicans could never lie even half as well as the Democrats — and Clintoon, the Great Prevaricator,was the most successful of them all.

This year's SOTU will be 100% bullcr@p — again.

[HarleyD]

This is a liberal, narcissistic, Chicago-thug of a president. It's not in Obama’s nature to be conciliatory or to give up his ideology. He can't deliver one speech without complaining that it's the other guy's fault. Even if he gets up there and says we're going to reduce the size of government and get people back to work is anyone REALLY going to believe him? His problem isn't message or tone. It's credibility.

[Twinkie]

Let’s see - though it’s about to gag Obama, he has to pull back some (or at least appear to) and become Little Billy Clinton II; if he and Michelle hope to keep on living high on the hog on our dime. Oh, and he’ll keep on stressing this new and unfamiliar “tone of civility” and enforcing it on his “enemies”, the Republicans, UNTIL the citizens of this country get in line and the Democrats get back in their “rightful” place of dominance. If that happens, all bets are off and it’s back to “punishing their enemies” and sitting separate in the SOTU address, not to mention, back to the original Marxist plan.

[ronnie raygun]

This seems like a great opportunity for the American citizen who has had enough of this mans nonsense to show it by SHUTTING OFF YOUR TV in protest.

[Judith Anne]

"This is potentially very successful for him--because it both splits the Republican Party and keeps together much of the Obama 2008 base, which is made up of better educated, upper-income voters who are fine with gay marriage as long as their taxes are kept low...."

Oh PLEASE! Give me a freaking break!