Someone had to ask it sooner or later- What is your opinion on this year's State of the Union and the Republican response?

If you have not yet watched or read the speeches, here you go!

2012 State of the Union video and transcript.

GOP response to the State of the Union.

This is the first State of the Union that I have watched the whole way through, so I don’t have much to compare it to. But as far as the speeches that I have heard thus far are concerned, I think that this was a fantastic speech and one of Obama’s best.
Regardless of politics, I thought that the GOP response was a tad passive-aggressive and unnecessarily condescending and negative, especially considering how much applause Obama received from Republicans during the second half of his speech. Regarding the political aspect, I can honestly say that some of the solutions that Daniels offered in his speech were good; that said, the Republican candidates themselves do not reflect the propositions of this speech whatsoever, which leaves me with the opinion that this GOP response was essentially moot.

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