can overcome the cynicism that people bring toward washington. there s not a proposal. not as though he just finds the right set of words to say it, all of a sudden people win. it s a process. i think the white house hopes that process starts tonight. i would argue we went back here at the post and the most memorable impactful state of the unions and most recent one we found was george w. bush, so 2002, when he laid out the axis of evil. these are not typically speeches even for someone who is quite gifted like a speech giver like barack obama, go ahead. let me challenge you on that. that speech arguably turned this country in a direction on foreign policy i know tonight will not be about foreign policy and traditionally it s not. but those words, axis of evil and i was standing here in congress, i called the control