Steven Greenhut on the Political Cowardice of Barack Obama

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President Barack Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday night was the latest reminder that the state of political discourse in America is shockingly low, writes Steven Greenhut. It was a vivid reminder of the shoddy thinking so common at the highest level of the federal and state governments and why we are—in the more precise, but less lofty words of a former president—in deep doo doo.