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It was an emotional speech by and large. >> presidents have two hats they wear. one is the national healer, the one voice, moments like tucson really make all americans look to our president for inspiration. and president obama provided it in tucson. the other hat, though, is the tough work of government that our founding fathers built a system where we are designed to clash. that's always going to be messy. presidents must wear both hats. >> i agree with that. it really the like comparing poetry to prose. how do you make the comparison? >> more often than not, president's pull numbers either ...

President's pull numbers either poll the same or go down after a state of the union and the public has no memory of the speech within a couple of weeks. long-term, it's going to be more the actions than their words. i've had several e-mails tonight that say paul ryan voted for t.a.r.p. and capping ceo pay and michele bachmann didn't. are the republicans really committed to this new cutting spending and deficits and will the president work with them? they don't really care according to conservative activists, they don't care what ultimately they come to as long as both sides get together and st...

That's always going to be messy. presidents must wear both hats. >> i agree with that. it really the like comparing poetry to prose. how do you make the comparison? >> more often than not, president's pull numbers either poll the same or go down after a state of the union and the public has no memory of the speech within a couple of weeks. long-term, it's going to be more the actions than their words. i've had several e-mails tonight that say paul ryan voted for t.a.r.p. and capping ceo pay and michele bachmann didn't. are the republicans really committed to this new cutting spending and defic...