Obama in campaign form in final State of the Union

Where has this Barack Obama been?

“When politicians insult Muslims … that doesn’t make us safer”, he said, drawing applause from the crowd in the House of Representatives chamber.

Cruz had called for carpet-bombing ISIS strongholds in Syria. Mr. Obama smiled. “A little applause back there”, he said wryly. Earnest said he was unsure if the president would meet with billionaire investor Warren Buffett, who has supported the president’s views on income inequality but who opposed the administration’s stance on the Keystone XL pipeline. “It is the result of choices we make together. Leadership means a wise application of military power and rallying the world behind causes that are right”.

Claiming that the government have made economic progress, he said anyone who suggested that the nation’s economy was not in decline was “peddling fiction”.

Finally, he talked at length about improving the state of politics and debate. “Masses of fighters on the back of pickup trucks and twisted souls plotting in apartments or garages pose an enormous danger to civilians and must be stopped”, Obama said.

The president also said the United States is in the middle of the “longest streak of private sector job creation in history”, adding that 14 million new jobs have been created. He says that’s the story IS wants to tell and the message it uses in propaganda to recruit. 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. It’s a matter of understanding just what it is that makes us strong.

He also admitted that his big regret that “the rancour and suspicion” between the Democratic and Republican parties in Congress has gotten worse instead of better during his presidency.

The president was clearly referencing Trump’s proposal to ban all Muslims from entering the U.S.

A Syrian refugee was among about two dozen guests invited to sit with first lady Michelle Obama.

In response to Obama’s address on behalf of the Republican Party, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley criticized the president for his stewardship in both economy and foreign policy, referring to a crushing national debt, a more expensive health care plan and a more risky terrorist threat. If we held the White House, taxes would be lower for working families, and we’d put the brakes on runaway spending and debt…