Obama's Second State of the Union Speech Draws Mixed Reactions - by Jerry Pippin  
January 25, 2011 - President Barack Obama's second State of the Union speech, we know it's the third year,  in Instant polling the speech showed that Obama made inroads in employment, and health care. One CBS poll showed that 81 per approved of his speech.  The Republicans seemed to show some sort of gestures by mixing up the seating but privately none of the new 87 Republicans are not inclined to work with the President. No evidence that they will compromise and there is a definite anti-Obama feeling that Obama is the enemy, a socialist at best and many other things at best. So we are watching a divide in DC while polling tonight shows the public seems to want compromise. The conventional wisdom is that the new Republicans think they won because they said "no" so why should we say, "Yes." If there is a weakness it is the employment and perhaps the offers from Obama to give Big Business some more cuts, as the downturn cycle is ending, perhaps in the image battle it will appear that the President had something to do with it, the economic job recovery.