I’m certain that he wants to talk about his legacy. I want to focus on the next five years, the next ten years, and beyond. “We must resist that temptation”, Haley said.
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“We have to end the practice of drawing our congressional districts so that politicians can pick their voters, and not the other way around”. This is not a matter of political correctness.
“When politicians insult Muslims, when a mosque is vandalized, or a kid bullied, that doesn’t make us safer”.
The president also said there are several Americans who may feel as good about his era as he himself did.
Later, calling such claims “political hot air”, he added, “Well, so is all the rhetoric you hear about our enemies getting stronger and America getting weaker”.
“The United States of America – right now – has the strongest, most durable economy in the world”. “It’s not even close”, he said.
With less than three weeks until the Iowa caucuses – the first votes cast in the process to replace him, Obama berated talking points used by Republican candidates, saying anyone claiming that America’s economy is in decline is peddling fiction. He says references to World War III just play into the extremist group’s hands. “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. “And we have to make college affordable for every American”.
Obama told Americans technology is key in finding clean energy resources and cures for diseases.
Democrats called the President’s speech inspiring.
The President at the outset spoke to the joint session of Congress about what he’d like to get done in a bipartisan basis in his final year in office.
She said Republicans must recognise their role in the declining trust in government in the US. “I know the president is looking forward to those visits”.
“President Obama is a great speech maker, and I think he did that again last night”, she said.
(Cruz) “This was less a State of the Union than it was a state of denial”. That’s what makes me so hopeful about our future.
Took indirect swipes at GOP presidential candidates for bluster on fighting terrorism.
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“The President is president of all fifty states, not just a selected few”. A White House official expected the speech to be the president’s shortest State of the Union to date, but his 52 minute speech in 2009 will continue to hold that record.
