Leid Stories - Obama’s SOTU: Same Difference - 02/13/13

Yes, it was a different President Barack Obama speaking to Congress and the nation last night. And no, it wasn't. For, his State of the Union address was both a reiterated wish list of policy "reforms" he'd like attached to his name before he leaves office and a velvet-smooth admission that wily old-guard Republicans, fractured as they are, have beaten him at his own game. Still, Obama's SOTU, crafted in big-picture (not small details) terms, went off as the Hollywood production these things have come to be. Leid Stories discusses the pox-on-both-our-houses antidote, offered by Rand Paul (R-KY), whose  stolid Tea Partyesque newspeak was actually refreshing.