It was a speech much-awaited, driving speculation and controversy before it even started. No, not Steve Jobs in San Francisco but Barack Obama in Washington.
It has been a bad few weeks for the US President. More than one in 10 Americans is unemployed and Obama has used up much of the goodwill that catapulted him into office on a controversial health reform program. His first State of the Union address was hoped to put some fire back into the US economy.





