What the White House said about the State of the Union Address

President Obama's Twitter feed indicates some of the things his people thought were important in the SOTU.

1. How to tune in
2. Organizing for America "Strategy Calls" with campaign manager David Plouffe. Because the State of the Union Address is, above all, about setting up a political strategy for your core constituency, I guess.
3. OFA staff tweeting highlights of speech. Just in case you didn't understand what was important in the speech, from the White House perspective.
4. Muddled historical references to "moving forward as one nation".
5. Hope for America's future.
6. Bank bailout was a necessary evil.
7. Recovery Act saved two million jobs. Depending on how you count, and whether you subtract jobs lost in the private sector due to spending on the public sector.
8. People are hurting. "I want a jobs bill on my desk without delay". What, exactly, is a "jobs bill"?

Orwell weeps: If the "jobs bill" contains card check unionization, it will be a "jobs bill" only insofar as it destroys them.

Wasn't the "stimulus bill" supposed to create jobs? Why was most of the "stimulus" spending delayed to coincide with election cycles?
9. Cracking down on successful banks (but going easy on Fannie and Freddie), and ACORN-controlled banks.
10. World Class education as an anti-poverty program? Domination by unions and liberal schools of education have made primary and secondary education worse than it was 40 or 50 years ago. And costs of higher education have increased faster than health care costs. To his credit, Obama has shown sporadic signs of standing up to the leadership of teacher's unions. No significant sign that he wants to control the costs of anything connected to education except for student loans.
11. America must lead in a clean energy economy. The devil's in the details on this topic.
12. Promise not to walk away from people who need health care. In other words, people who oppose his plan ARE walking away from them.
13. Respect for the military. Interesting.
14. "I never said change would be easy. When you try to do big things & make big changes it stirs passions & controversy—that’s just how it is." So, does that mean that people who don't agree with the Democrats will get more respect now, or does it mean they should continue to shut up, so we can "move forward as one nation"?
15. "We don't quit. I don't quit" Same question as above. Claudia Rosett also confused:

We don’t quit. I don’t quit.”… Who is “we” and why is that different from “I,” as in “I don’t quit” — and what is he talking about? Quit what, exactly, and how did this even come up? Quit a tradition of more than two centuries of the American spirit (did he really think we were all about to quit?). Quit his command-and-control healthcare agenda? …”Let’s seize this moment“… “start anew“…”carry the dream forward“… these are things he might have been saying to himself in the mirror last week, as the news rolled in of the Massachusetts election. But for rest of the country, the people who inhabit this union, for the world out there listening in, what is he talking about?

And the White House Staff thought Obama's cryptic statement above was worth tweeting. In writing. It's all about impressions, given how vague the statement was.

Follow-up:
1. Join Obama in his "fight for the middle class". Creepy class warfare language in the linked "letter".
2. Your chance to see the SOTU again. Plus ask a follow-up question.
3. Video of "questiontime" with House Republicans. The "highlights" below the linked video are very different from the take-away of a House Republican I heard on the radio who attended this meeting. Obama challenged them to abandon the typical, informal meeting with the President for a televised exchange, catching the Republicans a little off-guard when he sometimes turned their questions to him into attacks on them.