Urging the American people to “fix our politics”, Obama said his one of the few regrets of his presidency was that the relationship between the Democrats and Republicans had worsened.
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BARACK OBAMA: After years now of record corporate profits, working families won’t get more opportunity or bigger paychecks just by letting big banks or big oil or hedge funds make their own rules at everybody else’s expense.
I am looking forward to this new year and what it brings in the world of American politics.
“You hear a bunch of folks right across the river and I don’t know if the TV has drifted over here, but they’re kind of depressing”, he said. 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.
When politicians insult Muslims, when a mosque is vandalized, or a kid bullied, that doesn’t make us safer. But they do not threaten our national existence.
“Anyone claiming that America’s economy is in decline is peddling fiction. Period. It’s not even close”, he said. For seven years, Obama has reminded us that we are a country that overcomes, innovates, creates, and seizes the future – a people who believe in the power of hope and change to push us towards progress and prosperity.
Now as an adult and a senior in college I realize that it is what makes the nation either breathe easier or harder depending on their views of the sitting president. He says he wanted to start out his trip in Nebraska because its political leaders are civil. He tells us the economy is great, yet we have the lowest labor participation rate in a generation, and inflation-adjusted wages have shrunk under Obama.
The president also touted a new effort led by Vice President Joe Biden to fight cancer, aimed at increasing public and private resources and breaking down barriers to collaboration among researchers.
DAESH As we focus on destroying ISIL [Daesh], over-the-top claims that this is World War III just play into their hands…
“The future we want is within our reach”. “America is at its best when we see each other as one people”.
HORSLEY: Haley stood by her remarks today, saying if the country’s going to move forward together, we all have to look in the mirror. It will only happen if we can have rational, constructive debates, the US President said.
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South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, chosen to deliver the response, went as far as to join Mr Obama in thinly veiled criticisms of Mr Trump.
