Jumping on Twitter in the moments that followed Obama’s important speech, both mere mortals and A-list celebs were giving the president a virtual thumbs-up.
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POLITICO Magazine: The Nation He Built – “It’s true that Obama failed to create the post-partisan political change he originally promised during his yes-we-can pursuit of the White House”.
He says he wants to go further than President Obama ever tried to go.
“And each time, we overcame those fears”, he said. Still, the fact that he admitted his failure to do this, during the State of the Union address, can be considered a very honorable move.
The Republican response to the State of the Union, delivered by South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, also made no mention of cybersecurity or information technology.
The speech contained a thinly veiled reference to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his “Make America Great Again” mantra.
“No one who is willing to work hard, abide by our laws and love our traditions should ever feel unwelcome”, Haley said in excerpts released ahead of her remarks.
He said America’s foreign policy must be focused on the threat from ISIL and Al Qaeda.
“Masses of fighters on the back of pickup trucks, twisted souls plotting in apartments or garages: they pose an enormous danger to civilians; they have to be stopped”.
Obama said terrorist groups like al-Qaeda and the Islamic State or ISIL use the Internet to poison the minds of individuals inside the country and undermine American allies. Rejected the idea that IS threatens “our national existence”.
Obama came into office offering an olive branch to the opposition and got nothing but arrows in return.
The visit to Nebraska was only the second of his presidency, but it puts the president near voters in neighboring Iowa, where the first caucuses of the 2016 presidential race take place in just a few weeks.
In his final State of the Union address, President Barack Obama painted a rosy picture of the nation’s economic recovery and military power, while expressing regrets about the remaining thorns of political divisiveness.
Identified a number of areas where Democrats and Republicans might be able to find common ground: pursuing criminal justice reform, promoting trade, fighting opioid abuse.
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Ohio Gov. John Kasich pledged that he’d give a better speech in the future when his second term ends: “Eight years from now I look forward to giving a State of the Union that describes a stronger, safer and more united America”, he said in a statement.
