Noonan: The Sleepiness of a Hollow Legend
The State of the Union is a grand tradition—but only if people are listening.
Jan. 23, 2014 6:16 p.m. ET
So the president's State of the Union
address is Tuesday night, and it's always such a promising moment, a
chance to wake everyone up and say "This I believe" and "Here we stand."
The networks are focused and alert, waiting to be filled with a
president's excellence and depth. It's a chance for the American
president to say whatever the storm, however high the seas, the union
stands "rock-bottomed and copper-sheathed, one and indivisible." That's
how Stephen Vincent Benet had Daniel Webster put it, in a play. 
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