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President Obama came, he spoke, and he conquered. We’ve all seen lots of State of the Union addresses, but we’ve never seen one like the one Obama delivered on Jan. 25.

It wasn’t a laundry list of legislative proposals. It wasn’t a wish list of presidential promises. And it didn’t turn into a high-school pep rally between Republicans and Democrats.

Instead, what we saw and heard was just what a State of the Union address should be: a serious, intelligent, visionary look at where we are today as a people and where we need to go, together, to make this country even greater than it is today.

In a brilliant political move, without even saying the words themselves, Obama took a favorite theme of conservatives and Tea Partiers â€" “American Exceptionalism” â€" and turned it against them.

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