If you missed President Barack Obama’s first speech to Congress last night here it is. We’ve gotten emails from readers who asked for the embed of the speech so they can make their own decisions about what he said, didn’t say instead of reading or hearing new and mainstream media pundits give their views through their own ideological filters. So in answer to your requests here it is in full:
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Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.