How Obama’s State of the Union rhetoric has changed, in one chart

“When politicians insult Muslims, when a mosque is vandalised, or a kid bullied, that doesn’t make us safer”, Mr Obama said. “Period. Period. It’s not even close”. Now, as many young adults continue their journey through college and into the working world, we can now more than ever feel the urgency in the need for change and share the responsibility by participating in the upcoming elections.

His final State of the Union address, scheduled for January 12, 2016, is a high-profile opportunity for the president to try to reassure the public about his national security stewardship after the terrorism attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif. Vice President Joe Biden and then-House Speaker John Boehner of OH, listen in the background.

In his final State of the Union, President Obama challenged critics who say America on his watch is in decline.

Instead of outlining tasks for Congress, Obama imagined the America he both created and wanted to see.

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

Painting an unflattering picture of “Obama’s America” she said, “Presidents record has often fallen far short of his soaring words”.

“During anxious times, it can be tempting to follow the siren call of the angriest voices”, Haley said. “We must resist that temptation”. “That may work as a TV sound bite, but it doesn’t pass muster on the world stage”, Obama said.

Cruz: Indeed, this wasn’t supposed to be a political speech, but Obama was listening to a lot of the stuff that was going on out there – especially on the Republican side – and made some pointed references to Gov. Chris Christie, Sen.

The anti-Muslim rhetoric, he said, “betrays who we are as a country”.

Trump is “speaking to that, and maybe I don’t agree with every one of his solutions, that’s fine”.

He wants to send a message to show up and vote on time. And the President announced one final, ambitious goal…to cure cancer.

Obama spent 40 minutes visiting with Lisa Martin, who sent him a letter previous year that was written at 4 a.m. when she was awake feeding her son, Cooper, in which she described her “sinking feeling of dread and sadness” about climate change. 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.