Locals react to Obama’s last State of the Union

The subtext of President Obama’s final State of the Union address was palpable.

The Wisconsin Republican also charged that it “degrades the presidency” to “talk about primary politics on the other party”, he told Susan Page, the Washington bureau chief for USA Today, during an online episode of Capital Download.

(President Obama) “It’s one of the few regrets of my presidency – that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better”.

High school English teacher Lisa Martin wrote to Obama past year expressing concern about the environment and whether her son Cooper would be able to breathe the air without fear of pollution. The White House says more than 70,000 jobs, including more than 40,000 in the Omaha area, have been created in the Husker state since 2010. But, humorous, or serious, I quote his tweet because it mirrored the common partisan Republican reaction: “Obama spends [his] entire speech attacking Republicans and then wonders why American politics is so divisive”.

His trip to Nebraska, a Republican “red state”, is meant to help promote the big-picture ideas he laid out in his final State of the Union speech on Tuesday.

President Obama, however, reiterated concepts reminiscent of his journey into office. Republican leaders who vowed to make him a one-term president failed at that, but they’ve had great success in undermining many of his policies and tarnishing his brand. We also need benefits and protections that provide a basic measure of security.

Bush did like the GOP response by Governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley last night, though. So I hope we can work together this year on bipartisan priorities like criminal justice reform, and helping people who are battling prescription drug abuse.

“We just need to call them what they are – killers and fanatics who have to be rooted out, hunted down and destroyed”. That can not continue. Lawmakers have an obligation to approve meaningful actions and laws, no matter from which side of the political spectrum they come.

-Calling for “rational, constructive debates” in a political environment that is tempestuous at best, Obama noted: “Democracy does require basic bonds of trust between its citizens”.