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The good news, the White House has confirmed that the State of the Union will not be on the same night as the season premier of Lost.  The bad news, Americans are more interested in a made up island than their own bleep-ed up country.

Speaking of the State of the Union Address, it was clever of Virginia’s Governor Bob McDonnell to have an audience for his rebuttal to it, and from a public relations angle it was clever to give it in the State Capitol so that the scene looked a bit like the setting for the President’s address.  It was quite a well managed spectacle.  Did you notice how perfectly framed the governor was by the Virginia and United States flags behind him?  Framed by four people who constitute a perfect cross-section of America, too.  Behind his right shoulder sat a black woman and a white soldier, male; Behind his left, an Asian man and a white woman.  The audience was pretty diverse, too.
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I do, however, have very strong objections to the use of the State Capitol for the Republican rebuttal, or for any partisan rebuttal, Democrat, Republican, Green, Libertarian or any other political party.  Perhaps I am too hung up on symbolism, but the legislative chambers are the place where two parties meet, debate one another and hammer out legislation.  It should not be a place where one party holds partisan events.
This was not only a partisan event, it was the most public and partisan of all, an opposition party response to the President’s State of the Union address.  It should not have been held in legislative chambers.  But then again, perhaps it is the perfect illustration of what politics has become.