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Well there's staged and then there's STAGED, I'm certainly not saying this was some rehearsed thing and they had earpieces and some off camera producer counting them down to the hug, but there were decisions made and reactions hoped for, that makes it staged.

Oh OK, I see what you're saying now...but you seem to be taking the "It's very Rove-ian" view ;-)

Which is OK in my book, I'm not against things being staged, I've got a problem with STAGED, but merely staged is a non-starter. SOTUs are made for TV events with messages and goals,

Well we both know they didn't start out that way, but that's certainly (and sometimes sadly) what they are now...

anybody who has a problem with some event in it being staged should probably object to them pre-scheduling it and writing the speech before hand.

Totally. Even the DemonRAT jeers about social security were probably staged; who wouldn't doubt there was some memo passed around to boo at that point...I didn't hear little P*ssy Crissy whining about that, did you? ;-)

I'm taking the TV view.

SOTUs didn't start off made for TV, but they did start off made for the media. It's a pre-planned opportunity for a President to lay out his plans to America and try to get the people on his page so that maybe they can apply some pressure to their representatives to get on his page. And there's nothing wrong with that.

Absolutely the Rat boo was planned, and the lameness of their plan just shows why they keep losing.

Using some of your warped logic:

Hillary Clinton felt ill.
Hillary Clinton fainted while speaking.
Hillary Clinton staged the whole thing because she knew that she was ill. The fact that she spontaneously fainted was just a product of clever staging techniques.

Can you people give me a break here. You base your logic on a false premise and assumption.

Try again when you come up with a sound logical argument.