Obama delivers final State of the Union address

As issues the United States faces have shifted, so has the president’s State of the Union rhetoric.

During the televised address, cameras occasionally panned to the guests when Obama mentioned issues related to their life stories, but didn’t call out any of them by name. Here is NPR national political correspondent Mara Liasson.

In his eighth and final State of the Union Address Tuesday evening, President Barack Obama painted his vision for the US, touching on some of his biggest successes and regrets from his time in office. And he wanted his take on the state of the country to prevail.

President Obama criticised the negative tone of the current presidential race, arguing the U.S. has the “strongest, most durable economy in the world”.

Obama said to “ask Osama bin Laden” if anyone doubted that either he or America was committed to seeking justice.

“Today, technology doesn’t just replace jobs on the assembly line, but any job where work can be automated”, he said.

Obama has more than his party’s interest at heart.

Ryan reacted dismissively to Obama’s remarks, saying in a statement, “I can’t say I was disappointed by the president’s speech, but that’s because I wasn’t expecting much”. Based on past patterns, you can probably add another 1-2 million to account for those people. “This president is living in a different world”.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was one of the invited guests of Michelle Obama – recognizing the Redmond company’s focus on “expanding access to computer science in K-12 classrooms”, as the White House explained in its announcement of the First Lady’s guests. They have to be stopped.

“Last month, he worked with this Congress to give scientists at the National Institutes of Health the strongest resources they’ve had in over a decade”.

President Obama reiterated his commitment to defeating ISIS, saying “priority number one is protecting the American people and going after terrorist networks”. “I know a lot of you disagree with him, but we grew up with him and it’ll be weird when he’s gone”‘ wrote an anonymous Yik Yak user from the University of Virginia.

“It was one of his better speeches”, Fisher said. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz.

But in delivering his final speech, it seems as though Obama has mastered another social subtlety: the subtweet, the Twitter-world equivalent of trash-talking someone without ever acknowledging his or her existence.

“Our answer needs to be more than tough talk or calls to carpet bomb civilians”, he said. “That may work as a TV sound bite, but it doesn’t pass muster on the world stage”, he said.

“When politicians insult Muslims… that doesn’t make us safer”, he said.

Most likely, the next State of the Union will draw much higher ratings as the nation tunes in to see what the new President has to say. “It’s certainly that, but her speech last night sort of expanded the theme of who is and who isn’t qualified to be a Republican, and the Republican Party is still anti-conservative”, Limbaugh said. And I guarantee I’ll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.