Obama hammers GOP politics in red state Nebraska

“It will only happen if we fix our politics”, he said.

The president will hold a living room discussion with a family at a private residence in the Omaha, Nebraska area and then deliver remarks at University of Nebraska-Omaha.

“And, of course, President Obama could take the much easier – but important – step of issuing the Executive Order requiring enhanced campaign finance disclosure by government contractors, which has been sitting on his desk unsigned for months”, Ryan concluded.

On Tuesday night, the rapper attended the State of the Union Address which marks the third time Wale has been on White House grounds.

The 2012 presidential election was the first election that I was able to participate in and the Obama administration was the first that I was old enough to observe. The president urged Americans to work together for the “future we want” and did not hesitate to take swipes at Republican presidential candidates hoping to succeed him.

Trump, whom Obama did not mention by name in his speech, is leading the Republican field ahead of the November 8 election to pick the next president.

Obama said “one of the few regrets of my presidency” is “that the rancour and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better”.

“U.S. officials now suggest their may be further revisions to come, meaning the next US president will make his or her own decisions about how long American military involvement will last”, points out WaPo. He missed multiple opportunities to prop up moderate rebel forces and stop the Islamic State from gaining a foothold. South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley (R) seconded, saying to resist “the siren call of the angriest voices”.

“The state of this old but youthful Union, in the 175th year of its life, is good”, President John F. Kennedy said in 1963. He countered the negativity of Donald Trump, who promises to keep out Muslims and “Make America Great Again”, and Texas Sen.

During the speech, Obama left a seat vacant to represent the victims of gun violence. He pledged to continue to work to close the USA prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and called on Congress to lift the embargo on the Communist-ruled island nation. He admitted that “expectations for what we’ll achieve this year are low”, and his specific prescriptions for legislation were relatively modest: criminal justice reform, fighting prescription-drug abuse, tax cuts for low-income workers.

Obama said he wants to give it to Biden – whose son Beau, Delaware’s attorney general, died of brain cancer past year – and put his vice president “in charge of mission control”.