GOOD JOB...

... last night. The State of the Union was strong--without being pugnacious--and explicit in detail. The President managed to assign appropriate accountability without being ungracious; I believe that he remains genuinely open to bi-partisan work, but will be less willing to be the only one to compromise.

Is it sheer ill-will, or do his critics honestly not hear or understand Obama's words? Their strategy is to impute ideas and attitudes to him that he never proposed, and then berate him for embracing them. That they convince a significant part of the American electorate to believe this nonsense suggests a gullibility that would be laughable if it were not so dangerous.

No doubt the candidates will pursue this strategy as they respond to the President's speech. I hope that thinking Americans will have listened to what he actually said rather than the "interpretations" from the disingenuous right.