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A great interactive graphic by the Guardian team shows the decline in the reading level of presidential State of the Union addresses.
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Photo: President Obama, flanked by Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, gives his State of the Union address during a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday night. Photo by: Charles Dharapak/AP
Prepare yourself for President Obama’s State of the Union address tonight with DCDecoder:
State of the Union Preview: Obama, Rubio, and Paul
President Obama will face a tough crowd of Republicans during his State of the Union address Tuesday night. But on top of Sen. Marco Rubio’s response, Sen. Rand Paul will deliver the “tea party” response to Obama’s address. Will Paul overshadow the official Republican response?
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Photos (top) President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington, in 2012. Photo by: Saul Loeb/AP
Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky testifies before a state legislative committee on the legalization of growing hemp at the Capitol Annex in Frankfort, Ky., Monday. Photo by: James Crisp/AP
Video embed from the White House
With all the great sites below promoting their live blogs, we had to throw our hat into the ring. The Monitor’s live chat on Facebook with Dave Cook, our DC Bureau Chief, and Abe McLaughlin, our former White House correspondent will start at 8:45 pm Eastern.
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Besides the SOTU live blog we’re running, here are a few more to croll through. Pick your poison. Throw out others you’ll be reading in the comments or reply back and we’ll update this post. Happy viewing!
Hey! Also: GQ’s Ana Marie Cox will be liveblogging the speech right here.
(Source: csmonitor.com)
Word Cloud for Barack Obama’s 2010 SOTU address
Word Cloud for Thomas Jefferson’s 1807 SOTU address
For some extra reading on the SOTU 2011 we are taking a look at who will watch it and how seating works at the speech.
It is not the only such speech in the world. In addition to Britain, where the “Speech from the Throne” is now more than four centuries old, you can hear similar addresses in Russia, the Netherlands, Norway, and South Africa, among many other countries. America’s is the most celebrated, though. Even if Representative Giffords were sitting in her seat, as she has for the last four years, there’s no question that Tuesday’s event would attract enormous attention. But would it warrant all the interest? Or would it still just be what one critic wrote a few years back, a concoction of “outsized promises, tiresome applause … and flabby rhetoric”?An excerpt from our cover story, State of the Union: The crafting of a speech. More headlines from CSMonitor.com previewing what to expect from the SOTU: Will Obama’s push to the center appeal to the left? & A State of the Union fight ahead over US government spending . Plus, take our State of the Union quizto see how much you know.
GRAPHIC: RICH CLABAUGH / MONITOR STAFF
See a graphic-by-graphic breakdown explaining this full-page infographic about the State of the Union address.
