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Once again President Obama’s style was polished; yet his substance was tarnished.

In what felt like a rerun of last year’s SOTU, in which the president portrayed himself as a free marketer while championing more top-down, big-government spending projects, the president again spoke out of both sides of his mouth.

As in the past, Obama talked about the value of the individual over the government. In fact, he went so far as to quote Abraham Lincoln: “That government should do for people only what they cannot do better by themselves, and no more.” To demonstrate his point, he insisted on the need to streamline the bureaucratic state, which he acknowledged is “inefficient, outdated and remote.” He spoke of “clearing away the red tape that slows down too many construction projects” and “getting rid of regulations that don’t work.”

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