State of the Union Addresses

The speech itself is almost always the result of pitched behind the scenes battles between various parts of the admiand administration, an a white house that want to get their thing into the speech. Andlesasrun: I think we've never seen that more obvious in the speech itself than than we saw this speech. He spoke for 12 minutes, and can any of you remember the main argument from that section of the speech? Because i can't.