(Updated) The Obama Code/ What to listen for in the president's State of the Union address.

Fred Barnes First, “competitiveness” then:  "The president also wants to “win the future,” as he put it in a 4-minute video he sent last week to followers from his 2008 campaign. Who takes the lead in achieving this? Not the private economy unleashed by tax cuts and deregulation. Free markets and free individuals can’t be trusted with this task. The government must be in charge."

What Obama Will Not Say at the SOTU  "It is, indeed quite a list. Hat tip to Top Conservative Blogs. Here is a small sample:

--That his party's polities overseeing Fannie and Freddie were, in fact, the core problem in the housing crisis. That government-ordered housing for all is a massive failure.

-- That government takeovers of private companies are problematic, to the tune of socialistic.

-- That his policies punish private companies and American workers by using phony scare tactics to stop and prevent us from becoming more energy independent.

What to Look for Tonight Via Taegan Goddard's Political Wire