Was he or wasn’t he moving towards the middle? That seems to the prevailing question pundits asked before and after President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech tonight. Was he holding out an olive branch to GOPers? Will this speech be seen one day as representing a recalibration of the Obama Presidency? Or will it be quickly forgotten?
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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.