memorable speeches. are any of his states of the union memorable and can this one measure can this one qualify as kind of standing out, because of its rhetorical flourish? well, this is almost a pre-farewell address. you know, which is interesting, the news cycle is now so fast, that we have a farewell address a year out, which is, i think, you know, he still is president for a year. my sense of his state of the union address is that they are memorable partly for what other people have said. remember, the i don t thicongre south carolina, who cried out, you lie, which is a startling moment in some ways, because it violated the good decorum of the house, gave a sense of the anti-obama feeling in the country. and a lot of these speeches have been montages. i remember last year, i think we joked about this, obama approvingly quoted himself from 2004. he said, you know, as i said,