While I can't claim to have heard every piece of commentary uttered about President Obama's State of the Union address, I can state quite comfortably that Fox News host Chris Wallace offered the most vapid commentary on the affair:

There were a lot of small-bore things. There was a trade unit he created and a financial crimes unit and worker retraining. The only problem there, again, is this is year four of the Obama presidency. If these were such good ideas, why didn't he do them in years one, two and three?

Set aside the unprecedented obstructionism Obama has faced from congressional Republicans, who have made no secret of their plans to manufacture a “Waterloo” moment for Obama, and who have stated that their top goal is to ensure that Obama is a one-term president.

Wallace's critique implies that the clock has already run out on Obama and new ideas.

You know who else had ideas in the fourth year of his presidency? Ronald Reagan. There he was, all three years into his time in office, laying out the state of the union and pushing ideas big and small that he didn't do in years one, two, or three.

Reagan isn't even alone. George W. Bush and Bill Clinton also used State of the Union addresses to present ideas -- even after they had already been president for three whole years.

In fact, that the president of the United States would present ideas on how to strengthen the state of the union is the whole point of the thing:

He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient

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