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The president says here's 2020 from the state of the union. wasn't as much a governing speech as it was a campaign speech. >> we are alarmed by the new calls to adopt socialism in our country. america was founded on liberty and independence and not government coercion, domination and control. tonight we renew our resolve that america will never be a socialist country. >> democrats would say that's way overboard but if you are the president of the united states and you are looking at your electoral map that got you here, they think that might work. >> and republicans that i've talked to are -- ...

>> thanks for watching fox news coverage. don't forget. join me week days for special report. we will have all the news from the 2012 campaign trail, which is also, by the way, a hot story. i'll send it to greta van susteren for "on the record." >> greta: tonight, president obama's state of the union address. governing speech or campaign kickoff or both? >> we can neither settle for a country where a shrinking number of people do really well while a growing number of americans barely get by, or we can restore an economy where everyone gets a fair shot and everyone does their fair share and eve...

It could be the economic times, could be he won so big in 2008, or could be, let's face it, the color of his skin. this is an extraordinary reaction to a normal sequence of events when the economy is in trouble and we're entering a political season. >> how would democrats react if we had a republican incumbent president if he announced the reelection campaign and the campaign was underway and being funded, as this one is, and he wanted to give a speech, which would be easily seen as both a campaign speech and a governing speech, and wanted to do so at exactly the same time that the democrats w...

Ripped away the respect of the president. why do the republicans think this president is unpresidential and shouldn't dare request this thing. it could be the economic times, could be he won so big in 2008, or could be, let's face it, the color of his skin. this is an extraordinary reaction to a normal sequence of events when the economy is in trouble and we're entering a political season. >> how would democrats react if we had a republican incumbent president if he announced the reelection campaign and the campaign was underway and being funded, as this one is, and he wanted to give a speech,...