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.
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“President Obama spent his final State of the Union address pandering to the Democrats’ extreme liberal base on behalf of Hillary Clinton”, Gleason said. As a nation and as a people, we must find a better way.
“Yes, Mr. Trump has definitely contributed to what I think is just irresponsible talk”, she said, according to Business Insider.
For the Republicans Obama’s presidency lacked strength.
Obama sharply struck back at rivals who have challenged his economic and national security stewardship.
“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”.
Throughout the hour-long address, Obama stuck to a hopeful message in which he explained how he would leave office with the U.S.in better shape – focusing on a laundry list of accomplishments like the growing economy, shrinking income inequality and keeping America safe from terrorism – but also warned of the divisive rhetoric being used during the 2016 campaign.
RON JOHNSON: We don’t have a strategy for defeating ISIS, and he’s just downplaying the threat.
President Obama’s last State of the Union speech didn’t draw a lot of support from Western New York’s two Republican members of Congress.
Making a strong case for climate change, Obama said, “Now we’ve got to accelerate the transition away from dirty energy”.
The president also acknowledged that the divisions between the parties have grown wider in his seven years in office. “Leadership means a wise application of military power, and rallying the world behind causes that are right”, Mr. Obama said, listing the new opening with Cuba, the nuclear deal with Iran, the Trans Pacific Partnership that would limit China and establish US leadership in Asia as examples of his internationalism.
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“These sailors need to be released immediately”, said Rubio, who has positioned himself as the most hawkish GOP candidate in the field. He reminded us that our vision of a fair and just society can only be realized when we participate as citizens. But Obama held out hope that compromise could be possible – even from divided government in a campaign season – on issues like criminal justice reform and helping people addicted to prescription drugs. “Take the party affiliation out of it, as he said”. In the process, he reignited an election-year furor over how much progress he has made and whether voters should entrust the White House to the GOP.
