Republican front-runner Donald Trump today dismissed as “boring” and “non-substantive” President Barack Obama’s final State of the Union address.
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Mr Obama used his final State of the Union address to paint a hopeful portrait of America under his leadership, with a resurgent economy and better standing in the world despite racial inequality and growing menace of home-grown terrorism.
He said that the post-war global system is now struggling to adjust to the new reality and that the USA will help to rebuild this system.
“It’s one of the few regrets of my presidency – that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better”, Obama said.
Ted Cruz, also a GOP candidate for president, when he said, “Our answer needs to be more than tough talk or calls to carpet bomb civilians”.
“When you hear people peddling this fiction about our enemies getting stronger and America getting weaker, it’s hot air”, he said during a rally at the University of Nebraska Omaha”. If we held the White House, taxes would be lower for working families, and we’d put the brakes on runaway spending and debt…
“If you punish an elected official for even talking to the other side, then it’s going to produce the kind of politics that we have seen in Washington too often”, Mr. Obama said. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said, “What we saw was a leader with a record of failure in search of any meaningful positive legacy”. Rather, he ridiculed them as likely to be “lonely” if they continued to do so, since almost all scientists, most businesses, all nations on Earth, and majorities of the population support the science and agree on the need for strong action to respond. The president took responsibility for failing to achieve his goals, particularly when it came to smoothing partisan politics.
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When Obama burst onto the national stage with his keynote address to the Democratic National Convention in 2004, he talked of a United States of America, not a nation divided into red states and blue states. “The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith”. He said the President “took credit for, and rightfully so took credit for the things he did to drag us out of economic and diplomatic quagmire we were in after Iraq”.
