FREE EVENT
"State of the Union: Snapshot of the Body Politic"
Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune/ Naftali Bendavid, Wall Street Journal
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Economic crisis, foreign wars, and imperiled domestic initiatives: Join veteran journalists and commentators Clarence Page and Naftali Bendavid as they discuss and offer a prognosis of the health of the American body politic. Taking President Obama’s State of the Union address as their starting point, Page and Bendavid will offer their assessments of Obama’s own “vision thing,” his attempts at bipartisanship at a time of increasingly virulent political divisions, and the strategic decisions he has made from the timing of major legislative initiatives to his conduct of the wars and selection of deputies. The discussion will be followed by a question and answer session during which audience members can ask these seasoned Takoma Park resident correspondents about both politics and their own embattled profession of journalism.
