We agree with his call for Congress to work more closely with him to solve some of the nation’s most pressing problems.
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“When politicians insult Muslims … that doesn’t make us safer”, he said.
The president’s final State of the Union comes as much of the political world focuses on this year’s presidential election.
Obama’s speech did not mention Tuesday’s incident in which 10 US sailors were detained by Iran, after apparently straying into Iranian waters in the Persian Gulf.
Senator John Hoeven: “The president talked about working together with the congress. That means we need to work together to empower the American people”.
“If I had to handicap, I’m not sure any of them get done this next year”, Thune said after the speech.
Because no matter how far we have come post George W. Bush, no matter the strides we have made economically, technologically and socially [in the aspect of foreign relations] we still have a way to go.
Rhetoric by Republicans who have insisted on calling ISIL “Islamic” in nature is counterproductive in the fight against ISIL, Mr Obama said, and the U.S. should not “push away vital allies in this fight by echoing the lie that ISIL is representative of one of the world’s largest religions”. “It diminishes us in the eyes of the world”.
“All the talk of America’s economic decline is political hot air. Period. It’s not even close”, he said. It is why I, like the President, believe we can find the common ground to accomplish real change. “Masses of fighters on the back of pickup trucks, twisted souls plotting in apartments or garages pose an enormous danger to civilians, they have to be stopped”. “But they do not threaten our national existence”.
As for passing a new congressional war authorization targeting the Islamic State, that, too, appears unlikely after McConnell on Sunday undermined an incipient effort by Ryan: “I can’t imagine that I would be voting for an authorization to use military force that Barack Obama would sign”, he said in an ABC News interview. “And it betrays who we are as a country”.
Let’s make 2016 the year the American people take back our democracy.
The White House had billed Obama’s speech as a rethinking of the genre, and delivered. The president touted the progress he helped make in healthcare, LGBTQ+ issues and the economy.
Martin O’Malley, the first of the Democratic Oval Office aspirants to speak, said of the Republican Party’s leading candidates, ‘I’d like to say that Donald Trump is the most outrageous and unqualified person to ever run for president, but that’s not fair to Ted Cruz, is it’. “We can all clap about that”, he said. “I don’t want to tie the hands of the next president”.
Obama seemed to refer specifically to Trump’s call for a temporary ban on Muslim immigration following a deadly shooting attack last month in San Bernardino, California, by a couple authorities said had been radicalized.
Obama used his final State of the Union address to highlight his administration’s achievements – touching on the economy, changing technology, national security, and campaign finance – instead of identifying specific policy proposals.
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Alluding to the fierce campaign to succeed him that’s taking place in neighboring Iowa, Obama told a crowd of 11,000 at the University of Nebraska-Omaha that “I like talking about hope and all the good stuff that’s going on”.
