Boston bomb survivors are guests at Obama speech

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1. One of the reasons I loath State of the Union speeches anyone.

I think Reagan started it with these 'special guest stars'.

And I have watched increasingly fewer SOTU addresses ever since.

It becomes more theatrics every year.

Congress people actually "camp-out" on aisle seats so they can shake the President's hand as he enters.
Really.
And Congress wonders why so many American have contempt for them?

The media extravaganza with a virtual 'pre-game' show; keeping score on standing ovations; who is seated next to whom; 'post-game' analysis; etc.

And on top of all that hardly anything newsworthy ever comes out of these speeches.

I favor going back to George Washington's time when the State of the Union was a written document by the President hand-delivered to the Congress for them to read ... and the public.

That won't happen and I won't watch this annual Washington insiders media orgy.