A place where legislators sat appeared to be more important than what President Obama had to say during the State of the Union last evening; the real question, however, was: did they go home with the one who brought them to the dance?

It was a night of symbolism. Who sat with whom and who the President cited, playing off the Tuscon tragedy, who garnered the loudest applause from the assembly.

It was a sad State of the Union with an attempt by Obama to take a step toward the center by ‘investing’ in America’s future, another word for more  ‘spending’, citing a rally from the past,  ‘Sputnik’, when the Russians were beating us into space which gave America the incentive to beat them to the Moon.

An interesting audacious analogy, when Obama has killed America’s space program.

He proposed a five year ‘spending’ freeze, not an ‘investment’ freeze, – the words are one and the same – which will only apply to one seventh of the national budget.

While Obama focused on health care reform, when he should have been paying attention to jobs, he cites this as an accomplishment, when he knows the people didn’t want it.  Now he is paying attention to jobs while romancing the President of GE, and other industries he ignored.

Winning for America, a nice, but hollow theme, while a renowned Chinese pianist plays an anti-American song at a State dinner at the White House for President Hu of China.

I was somewhat surprised that in the middle of his speech he didn’t have the Marine Band play a brief sonata requesting the assembly to play musical chairs.

When I witness what I did last night, and place what I know to be fact in perspective, I have difficulty understanding who my President is rooting for?

But he did, to his credit, make a statement that is close to my heart, when he addressed the body before him and said, “No one here would trade a place with any other nation on earth.”

I feel that way every time that I return from a foreign nation and an immigration officer says to me, “Welcome home.”

There was a key message on the seating arrangement by Obama, ” We can sit together tonight, but can we work together tomorrow.”

I guess I’m a romantic at heart, I always went home with the girl I brought to the dance.