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State of the union is 'getting stronger', Obama says

US President Barack Obama called for greater economic fairness in his annual State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress on Tuesday. The president also called on Congress to invest more in education and clean energy.

By Claire BONNICHON (video)
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AFP - President Barack Obama said the state of the US union was "getting stronger," defending his policies by saying "we've come too far to turn back now."

"As long as I'm president, I will work with anyone in this chamber to build on this momentum," Obama said in his State of the Union address, recalling tough partisan battles that have plagued his presidency.

"The state of our Union is getting stronger," Obama vowed in his annual speech to both chambers of Congress.

The US leader said he intended "to fight obstruction with action," and "oppose any effort to return to the very same policies that brought on this economic crisis in the first place."

"We will not go back to an economy weakened by outsourcing, bad debt, and phony

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financial profits," Obama said.

He entered the White House in 2009 amid the worst economic downturn in decades, and pledged in his speech Tuesday to rebuild the US economy with an emphasis "on American manufacturing, American energy, skills for American workers, and a renewal of American values"

Obama hailed the end of the war in Iraq and the death of Osama bin Laden, as he trumpeted his credentials as commander-in-chief.

"For the first time, there are no Americans fighting in Iraq. For the first time, in two decades, Osama bin Laden is not a threat to this country," the president said, in a speech to US lawmakers which effectively launches his campaign for re-election in November.

Praising "this generation of heroes" which has "made the United States safer and more

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respected around the world," Obama won his first standing ovation of the night from some of the gathered lawmakers.

"Most of Al-Qaeda's top lieutenants have been defeated. The Taliban's momentum has been broken, and some troops in Afghanistan have begun to come home," he said.

Addressing rows of military men in uniform from his top joint chiefs of staff, Obama praised the achievements as "a testament to the courage, selflessness, and teamwork of America's Armed Forces."

"At a time when too many of our institutions have let us down, they exceed all expectations. They're not consumed with personal ambition. They don't obsess over their differences. They focus on the mission at hand. They work together."

Comments (12)

It Was...............

It was a ReElection Speech, pure and simple by The Liar in Chief and it was funded by the Taxpayers and broadcast by all of the Media Channels !!!
HIS ReElection Campaign Fund didn't have to spend one $ for this ReElection Speech.
It was a ReElction Speech, written by HIS staff of Professional Speech Writers that HE read from the TelePrompter !!!
He did a good job of reading what someone else had written for HIM to say !!!
Period.
End of discussion.
Next LIE, portrayed as the Truth !!!

president obama

i love his speech i wish to see him one day

Bank Profiteering

Will President Obama demand return of Bank Bailout monies used for Banker profiteering rather than sparing mortgage foreclosures?

stay strong with President Obama

Yes we can for a other 4th yeasr. si ce prede we have a dream to follow ok

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vote on obama speech

On your 13 news today you said to go to this site and vote yes or no on Obama's speech. I can not find the place to vote. I forget the exact question, but I do not agree with his message, please vote for me. If his ideas are so great why did he wait till now?
thanks,
John

State Of The Union

Dear Mr. President Barack Obama you are a joy and i am so proud of you. Your State of the Union speech was great and you doing wonders for the country. You came into the mess you are trying hard to save the country. You helped to capture Osama Benladdin and you are doing a good job os sending the troops home from the war. Do not be dismayed you are doine a great job, do not let negative thinking people distract your consentration. Continue the great job and remember you are my son in my mine you are one in a million and remember it is race abnd the color of the skin that is on some peoples mine ignor the ignorance you can be as black as you want to or as light as you want to God Bless You my son

STATE OF THE UNION----PART# 5

And a penny borrowed must be paid back with two pennies. I will stop here--the limit of space for comments is so frustrating---I will reply again when an adequate space for comments is provided.....Unlimited space for the STATE OF THE UNION----and a postage stamp for a reply----What ever happened to free speech and the right to speak it!!!!!!!!!

STATE OF THE UNION---PART #4

The only way clean energy can deliver available energy is to invent a cheeper method or borrow more money from outside sources to pay for the higher costs. Then this will reduce the cost of energy to the rest of the world and therefore require more debt to be added to our great national debt--this then would be what you would call good debt?????? Even your good debt would require a payment sometime----Meanwhile the rest of the nations smile as UNCLE SAP helps out with the world price of OIL. MY slogan is DRILL HERE-THERE-EVERYWHERE, DIG-HERE-THERE-EVERYWHERE, SPLIT ATOMS HERE-THERE-EVERYWHERE, and let the profits be taxed, let the salaries be taxed, and let the tax be used to reduce the national debt. American workers have the skills but a reallocation of prioprities will put the salaries of government workers at a scale slightly less than productive workers whose taxes pay the government salaries. We need to understand any tax used to pay a government employee is tax that can not be used to pay down the debt---and would require an even greater increase in our debt. American values are founde in the dictum that a penny saved is a penny earned and a penny borrowed

STATE OF THE UNION---PART # 3

Any plan to accomplish must include a 20 year guarantee as to the taxacation policy for returning factories and current comianies in the United States. Moving a plant on paper is easier than changing the location and the production to our shores. AMERICAN ENERGY.....money borrowed to give a foriegn government aid in the production of ENERGY for oil and then proclaim we will be a happy purchaser of that oil in not a supporter of American Energy---only a supporter of American DEBT. The way to support American Energy is to get it from the area within the controll of our soverign nation. The Keystone Pipe line freeze does make us more dependant on foreign oil but allowing it to be built with a caviott that gave american oil prioroty when available would be a good start. We could connest our Alaskan Oil to the U S refineries and eliminate the tanker transportation of oil to the US. Ships produce greater cost and a greater likelyhood of evironmental disaster. Off shore drilling is even less likely to produce evironmental than tanker transportation

The State of the Union Speech----CONTINUED

CONTINUED COMMENTS:BUT afte 3 years of 100% tax the expenditures would havc created another 5 TRILLON in additional debt--But your tax was only on the rich and not on everyone and a 100% tax was not advocated. Thus your debt program will skyrocket. THE answer is a reduction in spending with no yax increases until a balanced budget is enacted. Then an equal sacrifice tax system for all citizens will be gladly enacted. For the purpose of paying off the static debt. Your call for not increasing bad debt is interesting---I consider ang debt that has no indication of being paid to be bad debt----WHERE WILL THIS GOOD DEBT COME FROM???? No phony profits---Like those from Soleendra I presume. Or the money gained by not paying the legal obligations to stock holders when the pension fund of the AUTO unions was made whole. You use of words does not square with any acceptabe dictionery in the LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. Your plan to build the economy on American Manufactering will need some changes. The taxaciation on capital gains will keep those factories over seas. Our tax system must be competive with all alternative places where it can be done. Any plan to get our manufactering base located here must

The State Of The Union Speech

I will quote from the Speech and then comment--using excerpts from the above article---which was not the entire Address.

(1) The state of the Union is getting stronger---I will unite with anyone in the chamber to build on the momentium!

ANSWER: Our debt is getting much stronger, our energy cost is nearly double--thus the cost of energy is much stronger. Most of the job increases have come in the increased size of government--yes the government is getting much stronger. Will your policies increase our national debt? All these proposals just add to the debt and make it stronger. All Government jobs do is increase the need to borrow money from any available source. If this makes the country stronger we do not need to increase taxes--Right now it would take a 100% tax bracket three years to eliminate the debt we now have

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