Joel Pollak

to make this a bit of a better place to live.

And that's what I want for my family.

And I know that that's what millions of Californians want.

And that's why the California post is doing so well.

Right.

Well, I tried to look at it in a number of different ways.

And I wrote about it at the California Post yesterday.

from my perspective, using my tools, the way that I would write it as a political observer.

And next I'll get to how Scott would have seen it.

But I thought it was one of his best speeches ever, yet it was also a very partisan speech.

And so I wrestled for some time with the question of whether a partisan speech in the State of the Union could also be a great speech.

And

I think he pulled it off and the way he pulled it off was he did not try to establish national unity by talking about the Republicans and the Democrats coming together.

That's the old model.

And I think he actually tried that a couple of times in his early State of the Union addresses.

But what he did instead was he went outside of politics and he brought heroes into the room

that everybody could identify with, the hockey team, the soldiers, the National Guardsman who was wounded, the mother of the refugee who was murdered.

He brought people in who could transcend the parties.

So he beat up on the Democrats quite a bit, but also said our national unity is really outside of this chamber.

And he almost emphasized the point physically,