State of the Union 2012: Obama speech transcript

Washington P

The president has the wealth gap on his mind. Obama identified the need for a level economic playing field as "the defining issue of our time" in his State of the Union address Tuesday night, according to early excerpts of his 25, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Hawker Beechcraft today issued the following statement in [...]

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After Obama speech, three arguments for housing

The Associat

Brussels blog from the Financial Times covering the EU's foreign and economic policies and news on the European Commission and European parliament. I've never had a problem with money. It's good, it's green, you can do fun things with it. But as a Finance Professor, I learned long ago that there is. I've never had [...]

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Obama pushes State of the Union vision on 3-day trip

CTV.ca

That there is a word cloud from CBS based on last night's State of the Union address (SOTU) by President Barack Obama. If the speech accurately mapped the way things really are, I'm guessing that the tiny "debt" (lower right-hand side) would be twice Listening to Barack Obama's State of the Union Speech last night [...]

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SOTU: Will Obama's economic proposals work?

CBS News

Throughout his speech, Obama invoked the principles of fairness, collective action, and common purpose. Conspicuously absent was the theme on which the Republican Party rests its case — namely, individual liberty — a US Representative Gabrielle Giffords blew a kiss to cheering colleagues as she began her farewell trip to Congress by attending President Barack [...]

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Fact check: Obama's State of the Union Address 2012

USA TODAY

Here's a look behind the rhetoric: By H. Darr Beiser, USA TODAY President Obama delivers the State of the Union Address on Tuesday as Vice President Biden and House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, look on. By H. Darr Beiser, USA TODAY President Obama Here's a look behind the rhetoric: By H. Darr Beiser, USA TODAY [...]

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