Noonan: SOTU Was Mush

The Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan was a presidential speech-writer for Reagan and the first Bush. This background makes her commentary on presidential speeches particularly relevant.

Go here to see her evaluation of Obama's speech earlier this month, it is thorough and, mostly, negative. After his winning speech in Tucson, the State of the Union was surely a letdown. She concludes of the president:

He was not serious and he didn’t seize the center, he went straight for the mush. Maybe at the end of the day he thinks that’s what centrism is.