It is typical of these times in America that prior to Barack Obama’s first State of the Union speech, almost no one in Washington had much of an idea what he ought to focus on. Such was the case at Local 16, a lively bar on the corner of New Hampshire and U Street, where Generation Obama — his own youth movement — was holding the traditional SOTU Watch Party.
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