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Is the State of the Union Address obsolete?

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By Pat Cunningham

As was the case last year, my busy social schedule is such that I won’t see a live telecast of tonight’s State of the Union Address by President Obama. But, of course, I’ll catch up with video clips of the speech and read lots of comments about it from political pundits.

As was also the case last year, I can’t resist passing along THIS ESSAY by Linton Weeks, who wonders if this annual oratorical ritual has become obsolete:

Given the nonstop, stereo-rock news cycle, the warp speed tempo of geopolitics and the constant to-and-fro between the media and the president, ...

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