The White House has spun President Obama’s State of the Union as a tactical pro-business move to the center. Wary Republicans listened to his rhetoric Tuesday night and pledged to trust but verify. And analysts pointed to the speech’s inherent contradictions.

“None of us can predict with certainty what the next big industry will be, or where the new jobs will come from. Our free enterprise system is what drives innovation,” he said. Was this the new, pro-capitalist Obama who embraced free markets?

Or was this the same ol’ market-socialist Obama? “We’ve begun to reinvent our energy policy. We’ll fund the Apollo Projects of our time. With more research and incentives, we can break our dependence on oil with biofuels, and become the first country to have 1 million electric vehicles on the road by 2015,” he droned later in the same speech.

Who is the 2011 Obama? Pro-Big Government or pro-market?

Today, on a post-SOTU national tour stop in Indiana, Vice President Biden answered empathically: Big Government.

“By 2015, we will be the first nation in the world to have a million advanced-technology vehicles on the road. A million,” Biden said after his tour of a government-subsidized battery-assembly plant.

None of us can predict with certainty what the next big industry will be? Oh, yes we will, Biden told the Detroit News embracing Obama’s long-stated goal of forcing the production of 1 million electric cars. “We decided [sic] why should they be made anywhere else but in the United States. Tell me why?”

“We’re going to reshape what Americans drive,” Biden said. “In turn we’re going to reshape America itself.”

Reshaping the auto. Reshaping health care. Reshaping America into Euro-socialism. So much for change you can believe in.