State of the Union response

I am sure that you will read lots of blogs on the speech, so I am going to blog on the response. It is amazing that one group of reasonably intelligent people (democrats) can interpret the speech as mostly (with some exceptions):
1. same old same old
2. it will never work
3. an example of Republican failed ideas

And another group of reasonably intelligent people (republicans)can interpret the speech as mostly (with some exceptions):
1. innovative policy
2. a new vision for America
3. an example of Republican innovation

Either there are so many decision making biases affecting their interpretations (see my human factors blog for more info on that), they are intentionally biasing their comments for political purposes, or the speech was so vague that it could be interpreted however you want. I suspect it was a little of each.