The SOTU is not the be-all, nor the end-all, for the President and his programs.

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But beyond Apple, the Grammys and the SOTU, what else was being said this week?

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The SOTU was, as we have become accustomed to, more of the same.

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That's what presidents literally did for 100-plus years until Woodrow Wilson resumed Washington's practice of delivering the SOTU message in person.

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Unfortunately, all signs are that POTUS will once again delivery a laundry-list SOTU, leaving the larger TV audience alternately bored and mystified.

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President Obama set the tone earlier this year during his SOTU address by demonizing companies that get tax breaks for shipping jobs overseas.

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Last night Obama delivered a speech that even many of his ardent supporters said it felt like the last 4 SOTU speeches Obama had given.

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Thus, the key takeaway from the 2012 SOTU is that we are almost certainly guaranteed four more years of the same gridlock we have seen to date.

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Therefore the President would be well advised to be nice to the Congress in the SOTU. He does not have to abandon any of his positions, nor capitulate to the House.

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