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7:02 PM PT: He's winding up with a nice circling back to the "no red states, no blue states" 2004 DNC speech that made him famous. And he added gay marriage to the mix, which was fun.
7:04 PM PT: "If we’re going to have arguments, let’s have arguments – but let’s make them debates worthy of this body and worthy of this country.
We still may not agree on a woman’s right to choose, but surely we can agree it’s a good thing that teen pregnancies and abortions are nearing all-time lows, and that every woman should have access to the health care she needs.
Yes, passions still fly on immigration, but surely we can all see something of ourselves in the striving young student, and agree that no one benefits when a hardworking mom is taken from her child, and that it’s possible to shape a law that upholds our tradition as a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants.
We may go at it in campaign season, but surely we can agree that the right to vote is sacred; that it’s being denied to too many; and that, on this 50th anniversary of the great march from Selma to Montgomery and the passage of the Voting Rights Act, we can come together, Democrats and Republicans, to make voting easier for every single American."
7:04 PM PT:
TV just showed John Lewis applauding marriage equality and I just got all of the chills.
— @jamisonfoser
7:05 PM PT: (GOP hates women's health care. You already knew that, too.)
7:06 PM PT: (They also really hate people voting. People voting is worse than women getting health care.)
7:07 PM PT: "I have no more campaigns to run." The only line tonight he got real GOP applause for, but what a comeback. "I know, cuz I won both of them."
7:09 PM PT: "My only agenda for the next two years is the same as the one I’ve had since the day I swore an oath on the steps of this Capitol – to do what I believe is best for America. If you share the broad vision I outlined tonight, join me in the work at hand. If you disagree with parts of it, I hope you’ll at least work with me where you do agree. And I commit to every Republican here tonight that I will not only seek out your ideas, I will seek to work with you to make this country stronger."
7:10 PM PT: (GOP lukewarm to idea that "we are still the United States of America.")
7:13 PM PT: He ends on his blue state/red state riff, with a little echo of "I have a dream" when talking about the nation he wants for our collective children. It was one of the most eloquent of Obama's major speeches, made all the stronger for not being his policy laundry-list, but his vision. That's a vision for middle America that Democrats need to whole-heartedly embrace for the next two years. He's laid out a pretty good path for them, and some very worthy fights.
7:14 PM PT: And this is what won Twitter:
"I know because I won both of 'em." The. Best. Moment. #SOTU
— @MattOrtega
7:17 PM PT: Here are just some of the words that appeared for the very first time in a SOTU speech: “lesbian” / “bisexual” / “transgender”