The man who loomed largest in Obama’s final State of the Union address (and in South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley’s response) wasn’t in attendance, and was never mentioned by name. But as Obama decried “voices urging us to fall back into tribes, to scapegoat fellow citizens who don’t look like us, or pray like us, or vote like we do, or share the same background,” there was little doubt about his target.
The speech bookended a political arc that began at the 2004 Democratic convention, and it sounded…
Obama Comes Full Circle
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