President Obama asks voters to replace him with a Democrat

Obama concluded his address saying that America needs to change how it does its politics.

The latest innovation ahead of Tuesday’s address came by way of a new White House account on Snapchat, where Obama’s aides were sharing behind-the-scenes images and videos of its preparations through the see-it-before-it-disappears app. Viewers watching the speech through a YouTube livestream were invited to return on Friday when three YouTube celebrities quiz the president live from the East Room.

To help “fix” US politics, Obama pressed for an end to “gerrymandering”, the practice of drawing voting districts in ways that gives advantage to a particular party; reducing the influence of “dark money” or political spending in which funding sources do not have to be disclosed; and making voting easier.

Obama tried to shake off a sense of lame duck status, insisting that compromise in gridlocked Washington is possible.

Anyone who says the economy is declining is “peddling fiction”, he argued.

“America is the most powerful nation in the world”. “Period. It’s not even close”.

“For the loved ones we’ve lost, for the family we can still save, let’s make America the country that cures cancer”, Obama said. “No disrespect. It just is going to work out this way”.

Obama wasn’t the only one who bashed Trump, though.

She said under a GOP president, Republicans would lower taxes, curb spending and debt and strengthen the military.

“During anxious times, it can be tempting to follow the siren call of the angriest voices”.

Barack Obama has said it is “just wrong” for politicians to “insult Muslims” during his last State of the Union speech as president.

At the heart of Obama’s address to lawmakers and a prime-time television audience was an implicit call to keep Democrats in the White House for a third straight term.

“The fact that that happened in the first place is a direct effect of the weakness of the Obama-Clinton foreign policy”, Cruz said in an interview on NBC News, saying the administration’s foreign policy was to stick their “head in the sand like ostriches”. “I think she would have liked to see that”. “I don’t know. It’s a little preachy for me”.

The president said that change is the only way that the country can move toward the future and it is the only way the country can tackle the biggest challenges it faces.

“Now I’m guessing we won’t agree on health care anytime soon”, he said at one point, as the sound of a single person clapping on the Republican side could be heard in the chamber.

Obama admitted perhaps a president with the skills of Abraham Lincoln or Franklin D. Roosevelt could have bridged the divide, but said he will not give up during his last 12 months in office.

“It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong”.

Canning the Keystone XL pipeline, launching a clean power plan to cap coal plant emissions and signing a historic US-China pact mean he will be remembered as a leader who took the issue seriously.

The cheers and smiles from Republican senators underscored the vice president’s popularity on Capitol Hill, where he spent most of his adult life.

Obama’s vice president, Joe Biden, sat behind him.

Some of the tweets about Ryan’s expression are below.

Thursday in Charleston, the Republican candidates debate.

Obama did include an olive branch of sorts to Ryan, who recently apologized after characterizing the United States as full of “makers” and “takers”. “To speak out”, Obama said.

He was the candidate of transformational change – and then the president who led during an era of shutdowns, dysfunction and the erosion of the political center.

“It’s one of the few regrets of my presidency – that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better”, he said.

He also admitted that accomplishing those reforms is harder than the idealism that put him on the national political map might suggest.

“What I’m asking for is hard”.

“No hardworking student should be stuck in the red”, Obama said.

“Often the best thing we can do is turn down the volume”.

“This kind of stuff appears to work for their politics, but is not based on any reality”, McDonough said. “And that can make a world of difference”.