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Is less passionate than the polls on either side. the economy was front and center. with unemployment near double digits, the president made his pitch for what they call investments in innovation, education and infrastructure, challenging the nation to a new era. >> the future is ours to win. but to get there, we cant just standstill. we know what it takes to compete for the jobs and industries of our time. we need to out innovate, out education and out build the rest of the world. this is our g...

Thats a fall back to lincolns line back in 1859. thats the great divide here. republicans believe we have to get government out of the way for people to make themselves. and the democrats believe we have to have a government safety net. youre going to have this clash with these policy differences. for him to go into sputnik and his version of sputnik is to make solar panelled cells for house roofs, that fell flat on me. >> heres my beef with the speech tonight. this is his third state of the uni...

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Yeah, they won, but they also incurred so much debt at the time that it resulted in the inevitable collapse of the soviet union. >> okay, a little hard to make much of that statement because its not exactly very clear what shes talking about. if she literally means that sputnik bankrupted the soviet union and led to the collapse, it makes no sense, because it went up october 4th, 1957, and the soviet union dissolved in december, 1991, a span of 34 years. that couldnt have bankrupted them. they s...

Apparent assassination attempt two weeks ago. as she was honored by wearing special black and white ribbons, the congresswoman herself watched the speech from her hospital bed. she watched from her bed in houston alongside her husband, mark kelly. president obamas speech lasted for more than an hour. it was interrupted by applause 79 different times by our poor under paid applause counter. it was dominated by economic issues and assertions, but the differences between the pears are less importan...

Sputnik moment. well invest in biomedical research, information technology, and especially clean energy technology. >> on jobs. >> the competition for jobs is real. but this shouldnt discourage us. >> on the economy. >> the stock market has come roaring back. corporate profits are up. the economy is growing again. >> on government spending. >> will bring discretionary spending to the lowest share of our economy since dwight eisenhower was president. >> on encouraging america to innovate. >> in a...

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Technology. today he made a sales trip to try to sell those ideas. white house correspondent mike emanuel reports on a president hoping that the public is ready to buy what he is selling. >> day after the "state of the union" address, he visited three plans to highlight innovative companies adjusting to compete in global economy, hiring people and invest in industries of the future. mr. obama said this wisconsin town has interesting connection to one of the "state of the union" story lines. >> i...

More space flights. so maybe shes talking about this. >> we choose to go to the moon and do the other thing. not because they are easy, but because they are hard. >> that was a great speech. lunar program, that could be a budget buster, of course. hard numbers are hard to come by, because the soviet program was cloaked in secrecy. but according to nasa, our own manned space program cost about $23 billion from the first man in space to the last man on the moon. and according to a leading space hi...

Sarah palin, as jim demint called the most influential republican since ronald reagan. it looks like these two are really -- not emerging, but are real stars in the republican party. >> well, james, that is a closed door to the press, but i think all congress people are invited to attend the justices presentation. and it is to the tea party caucus. so these are lawmakers. these are not just random tea party people. >> i understand. but she got a supreme court justice to show up there. >> she did...