In the Republican address, Gov. Mitch Daniels (R-IN) made his own bad pun to match Obama’s “spilled milk” attempted joke from earlier in the night:
“Contrary to the President’s constant disparagement of people in business, it’s one of the noblest of human pursuits. The late Steve Jobs – what a fitting name he had – created more of them than all those stimulus dollars the President borrowed and blew. Out here in Indiana, when a businessperson asks me what he can do for our state, I say ‘First, make money. Be successful. If you make a profit, you’ll have something left to hire someone else, and some to donate to the good causes we love.’
In addition, Steve Jobs was himself a Democrat and a supporter of Obama, and his widow sat as a guest of the First Lady at the State of the Union address.
