"The MSNBC commentator Chris Matthews said it was noteworthy to him that a black president was addressing a room of mostly white people and how it didn't seem to be an issue. He said he saw it in the context of growing up at a time racial divisions were ever-present.
"Says Matthews: "I went in the room tonight, you could feel it wasn't there tonight and that takes leadership on his part, to get us beyond those divisions."--Chris Matthews on Obama: 'I forgot he was black,' AP
"On Thursday, he turned emphatically toward Republicans and implored cooperation.
"'Our political dialogue in this country has always been messy and noisy," Obama told the crowd at the University of Tampa.
"'We're all Americans. We all should anticipate that the other person, even if they disagree with us, has the best of intentions. We don't have to call them names. We don't have to demonize them.'"--Obama urges nervous Dems to fight for his agenda By CHARLES BABINGTON, AP.
Newsweek's Howard Fineman:
"If one speech can replenish a presidency–and I'm not sure it can—Barack Obama's State of the Union address was just such a speech. In tone and content it was aimed squarely at the fickle voters he has lost since last year: the swing-voting independents in the middle of the spectrum."
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