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Obama Should Use Fighting Words in the 2012 State of the Union

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The president needs to convince members of the middle class that he’s on their side, says Michael Tomasky.

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There’s nothing else in American politics quite like a State of the Union address. Thank God for it, too. Unquestionably the most tedious event on the political calendar, the SOTU is the pimply cousin’s graduation ceremony of American politics.

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