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To: TigerPaw who wrote (5194)	11/10/2005 6:27:20 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541805

Almost anything the president says, except for perhaps the explicitly personal, or philosophical musings, could be consider to be the president talking about the state of the union. The standard you present would basically be the president can't lie to congress. The actual state of the union address is no more connected to any constitutional duty to inform the congress as to the state of the union than is any other comment the president makes to congress about this country or things that effect this country. But even if we assume the annual SOTU address is somehow a special specific congressional requirement (if we wanted to make such a false assumption), its nonsensical to claim that there is an explicit constitutional requirement that there be no lies or innaccurate information in the speech, and its questionable to even consider it an implicit mandate, esp. an actionable enforceable mandate. Tim