Obama in State of the Union: America is turning the page WASHINGTON >> President Barack Obama urged Americans Tuesday night to “turn the page” on years of economic troubles, terrorism and lengthy wars, arguing that his presidency had ushered in an era of smarter American leadership and a growing U.S. economy. “It’s now up to us to choose who we want to be over the next fifteen years, and for decades to come,” Obama said in excerpts released ahead of his State of the Union address. Obama was to speak to a Congress controlled by Republicans for the first time in his presidency. But the policies the president was to call for suggested that he had no plans to curtail his own agenda in favor of GOP priorities. #AD_text{ font-size: 11px; color: #999999; } (function() { var secondaryMedia = $(“#secondary-media”).css(‘height’); var factbox = $(“#factbox”).css(‘height’); var internalContent = parseInt(secondaryMedia + factbox); if((internalContent “The verdict is clear,” Obama said. “Middle-class economics works. Expanding opportunity works. And these policies will continue to work, as long as politics don’t get in the way.” New Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst, giving the Republican response, called for cooperation, too, saying, “There’s a lot we can achieve if we work together.” But Ernst, in her prepared remarks, saw a [...] newsinnj/obama-in-state-of-the-union-america-is-turning-the-page/
Posted on: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 07:15:38 +0000
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