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Michael Franc, in reviewing the president’s non-SOTU speech last night, captures the frustration I have with Barack Obama:

We heard from a president with a moral compass every bit as sophisticated and powerful as Bill Bennett’s, and who possesses a remarkably subtle understanding of the American psyche, but who knows only one way to fit all that wisdom into his current job description—use it to justify seemingly endless calls for more and more government.

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In every instance, new government programs are the answer. And therein is the fundamental challenge Obama faces. The American exceptionalism he invoked generates precisely those character traits—personal responsibility, hard work, sacrifice, entrepreneurial creativity, resiliency, decency, and fairness—that will enable ordinary Americans to resist and, ultimately, defeat the suffocating Big Government that Obama seeks to impose on us.