Well I didn’t have to wait for the State of the Union, Obama tells The Washington Post that the health care bill contains the droids we are looking for*:
“Nowhere has there been a bigger gap between the perceptions of compromise and the realities of compromise than in the health-care bill,” Obama said. “Every single criteria for reform I put forward is in this bill. […] I didn’t campaign on the public option.”
Well, this is technically true if your criteria for reform is lower than you previously implied and therefore doesn’t require massive compromise, also if the things you say on your past political trail are exempt. He doesn’t touch the abortion restrictions.
*sometimes a random reference pops in my head when writing that I can’t stop, I don’t even like Star Wars, but I’m keeping it in if only to have a record of how my brain works over time.