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Mr. Speaker, the president of the United States.

This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics.

It's Thursday, January 30th. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker.

In a state of the union address on Tuesday night, President

Obama said he was prepared to act alone to strengthen the middle class.

America does not stand still and neither will I. So wherever and whenever I can take steps

without legislation to expand opportunity for more American families, that's what I'm going to do.

Andrew Hertzberg and Ryan Liz are here today to talk about the speech and what it indicates about

Obama's agenda in the final years of his presidency. So, Rick, this is Obama's fifth

State of Union speech. And I was thinking as I listened to it that in David Remnick's

recent piece about Obama, the president struck an almost

elegiac tone. I thought pretty much throughout, as he assessed the limits of power facing a

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