I thought the speech was excellent. I love the direction Obama is wishing to take on the issues he discussed, like Early Childhood Education and Climate Change. I loved his direct response to Republicans regarding attempts to defund/repeal the Affordable Care Act. As far as the responses, I watched the official Republican response and it was terrible. I hate the idea of trying to respond to an eighty minute speech ten minutes after it happened, and they failed to discuss or directly respond to many of his points.