Another Washington political spectacle
The State of the Union address by the US president has acquired its own unique rituals
Washington
US PRESIDENT Barack Obama became a member of a very exclusive club on Tuesday night, when he delivered his State of the Union (SOTU) address to a joint session of Congress. Let's call it the Twice-Elected-Incumbents-beginning-their-final-year-with a-report-on-the-SOTU Club.
There have been 43 presidents before President Obama but only five of them stood before Congress as Mr Obama did on Tuesday night to deliver the SOTU address at the start of their eighth and final year in the White House.
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