Durbin Praises, Shimkus Derides State Of The Union Address

“Tonight, I’m announcing a new national effort to get it done”, he said.

He said it’s “not a matter of political correctness”.

No individual is fueling this pervasive animosity more than Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Obama rejected that idea outright.

Moreover, if Obama were serious about reducing the influence of big money in politics he could replace five commissioners on the Federal Election Commission who are serving expired terms with commissioners “more willing to do the job of enforcing our federal campaign finance laws”.

In his address Tuesday, Obama went on to tout US spending on the military as higher than the next eight countries combined.

“The world respects us not just for our arsenal, it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith”, he said. “That is just not true”. As a nation and as a people, we must find a better way. “When the sound is quieter, you can actually hear what someone else is saying”, she said. “And that can make a world of difference”.

Paul Sracic, chairman of the politics department at Youngstown State University in OH, said: “Donald Trump must be smiling tonight”.

Continuing the dialogue he began a night earlier in his State of the Union addressState of the Union address, President Obama on Wednesday urged Americans to rise above divisive politics. She wrote to him a year ago to express concern about the America her son will grow up in. Ted Cruz’s vow to “carpet bomb” the Islamic State group.

“The United States of America is the most powerful nation on Earth”, the president said. But Obama is painting with too broad a brush when he says his naysayers are describing a fictional reality.

President Barack Obama today used his final State of the Union address to paint a hopeful portrait of America under his leadership, with a resurgent economy and better standing in the world despite racial inequality and growing menace of home-grown terrorism. Marco Rubio also slammed Obama as underestimating the strength of the Islamic State. They do not threaten our national existence. By that standard, Obama’s speeches are among the simplest yet. The White House expects the situation to be resolved quickly.

“If everything were as great as he said it was, two-thirds of the American people would not say the country is on the wrong track”.

There were some strong but fleeting lines about climate change, but the President declined to take a real victory lap on the Paris agreement from December, which he and his White House staff earned.

I do see this as problematic as well.