Only a few hours are left to the State Of The Union address by the President Obama. In previous years, no matter what the situation of the country really was, we heard every time the reassuring words, "... and our Union is STRONG!". We were receiving this statement like a communion at the end of a mass. We were all addicted to it. We needed that "fix", and we applauded it regardless of the situation of the economy, regardless of our growing 'unpopularity' among other countries in the World.
Last year we heard it again and it made what it was designed to do - it lit a dim, flickering flame of HOPE. The country was (it's barely started to recover from it) in a recession which was unprecedented in our lives. Two wars raging, economy on it's knees, jobs escaping across the oceans...
What is the future going to bring? Will we have anything to look forward to? Is President Obama going to bring in his speech tonight something more substantial than the 'fix' we always received? I hope so. It's time.
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And then we will hear not one response from the Republicans, but two - the other from the self appointed prophetess of the Tea Party - Michelle Bachmann. Oh, well, the fun never stops.
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