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"Just mail the damn thing in and be done with it."

No, the President has the right to communicate the SOTU speech to all Americans via national broadcast, especially to the people who support him. I want to hear what he has to say...not have to read it on some website. Don't let the Democrats manipulate control of the event. Sending it in is what they want him to do.

"Just mail the damn thing in and be done with it."

No, the President has the right to communicate the SOTU speech to all Americans via national broadcast, especially to the people who support him. I want to hear what he has to say...not have to read it on some website. Don't let the Democrats manipulate control of the event. Sending it in is what they want him to do.

Why do you think the President has the right to communicate the state of the union speech to all Americans via a national broadcast? There's nothing to that effect in the Constitution. The Constitution obligates the President to provide "information" to Congress, not the public. It does not give the President the obligation or even the right to provide that information in the form of a speech, and certainly does not obligate any television networks to broadcast such a speech.

Anyway, we were better off before Wilson revived the practice of treating this straightforward Constitutional obligation as an excuse for the President to deliver a speech from the throne as if he was a king. I hope this opportunity is taken to kill off state of the union addresses for good.