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What do you see as a legally purpose of the State of the Union? BACHMANN: For the president it was very clear. This is their campaign kickoff. The campaign kickoff was the speech in Kansas, and now this is a follow on to that.

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A litttle more than two hours before delivering his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama learned that Navy SEALs had conducted a successful helicopter rescue mission in Somalia to free a US citizen and her Danish colleague,

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What do you see as a legally purpose of the State of the Union? BACHMANN: For the president it was very clear. This is their campaign kickoff. The campaign kickoff was the speech in Kansas, and now this is a follow on to that.

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