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The American Conservative is doing a symposium on reactions to Obama’s State of the Union speech tonight. I will add my two cents late tonight or early tomorrow.<\/p>\n

I’d be curious to know what others expect from the speech – or what they think of the actual spiel. <\/p>\n

This would be a terrible night to run out of beer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The American Conservative is doing a symposium on reactions to Obama’s State of the Union speech tonight. I will add my two cents late tonight or early tomorrow. I’d be curious to know what others expect from the speech – or what they think of the actual spiel. 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