Tuesday night President Obama gave his first State of the Union to a joint session of Congress, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Vice President Biden and the American public. As is tradition, the Republican party provided its own video response to the President’s speach. Below are both the video of that response and the transcript. (Click here for Video and the Transcription of President Obama’s speach)…Tonight, we witnessed a great moment in the history of our Republic. In the very chamber where Congress once voted to abolish slavery, our first African-American president stepped forward to address the state of our union. With his speech tonight, the president completed…prevailed in two World Wars, won the struggle for civil rights, defeated the Soviet menace, and responded with determined courage to the attacks of September 11, 2001. The American spirit has triumphed over almost every form of adversity known to man, and the American spirit will triumph…

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Video and Transcript from President Obama’s First State of the Union Speach…Madame Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, and the First Lady of the United States…I’ve come here tonight not only to address the distinguished men and women in this great chamber, but to speak frankly and directly to the men and women who sent us…