Obama Speaks Of The Future In State Of The Union

Pointing to advances like NASA, President Obama said that the country has assumed a renewed role in eradicating cancer once and for all.

Cruz also slammed Obama for saying in the same address that anyone knocking the economy is “peddling fiction”.

“The bipartisan reform of No Child Left Behind was an important start, and together, we’ve increased early childhood education, lifted high school graduation rates to new highs, and boosted graduates in fields like engineering”, he said. Obama has never traveled to either community during his presidency, according to the White House.

“For the loved ones we’ve all lost, for the family we can still save, let’s make America the country that cures cancer once and for all”, he said, adding that Vice-President Joe Biden, who lost a son to cancer past year, would be heading the effort.

“For even without ISIL, instability will continue for decades in many parts of the world – in the Middle East, in Afghanistan and Pakistan, in parts of Central America, Africa and Asia”.

“Immigrants aren’t the principal reason wages haven’t gone up”.

On foreign policy, he offered perspective on the danger posed by the Islamic State, acknowledging that such terror groups “pose a direct threat to our people. but they do not threaten our national existence”. Republican front-runner Donald Trump tweeting that the speech was boring and rambling.

Obama moved to his final topic, “A better politics” with the question, “How can we make our politics reflect what’s best in us, and not what’s worst?” The president and his aides have been marveling for months at what they described as Republicans’ gloom-and-doom vision. Some of his arguments echoed the case he makes to donors at fundraising events. Americans hardly share his confidence in America’s upward trajectory, polls show.

He said change is the reason many Americans are anxious about the economy.

In the Republican response, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley also took a few shots at Trump, without naming him. “We’re feeling a crushing national debt, a health care plan that has made insurance less affordable and doctors less available, and chaotic unrest in many of our cities”.

Unsurprisingly, the president aligned with the Democratic candidates seeking to replace him in calling for reining in the power of Wall Street.

Until then, as he told his audience of lawmakers and candidates, he understands the hankering to get back to Iowa.

“He really put the call out to American citizens to engage, and I think you’ll see him engaging with American citizens directly, in small groups and living rooms”, White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough told reporters at a breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor Wednesday.