President Obama's State of the Union Speech had many promising elements, but ultimately failed when it desperately needed to succeed. It's primary failure was in obsessing on a future too vague. Its corollary failure was in presenting energy investment as a virtue rather than an existential necessity. He could have done better, because no doubt he knows better. And in the context of SOTU, Carol Browner's departure seems hardly a surprise.
What follows is the speech I wish he had given:
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