State Of Union

I thought Obama's speech was very motivating and inspiring. I love how he was talking about the future and how us Americans need to work togetor for it. He also discussed about innovation and technology alot, and I love the part where he said the thing about reconizing the winner of science fairs. He talked about bipartisanship and how both Rep/Dem needed to work togetor. I think Obama is a great person!

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I though President Obama had some good points in the state of the union and some not so very good things. I like the whole idea of bipartisanship with republicans and democrats working together, and the stress on better education. Also his whole speech seemed to be based off of "innovating" America. He talked about reducing our dependencies on foreign oil and i thought that was good. im not sure if i like the whole "Race to the Top" system for states to try to have the smartest kids. Also he said that 2011 was a time for more jobs and i like the plan of developing clean energy sources to provide jobs, but at the same time, it is going to put the country in a bigger deficit just buying all the equipment such as windmills, generators, turbines, etc. So overall i would say this was a great way to advertise bipartisanship, and ways to innovate, however i do not really like the "Race to the top" idea as much as the other ideas that President Obama had.

State of the Union Address

The State of the Union Address was very inspirational. President Obama spoke about innovation, education, and shaping the future in general. I enjoyed what Obama said about education. Although the 'No Child Left Behind' Act was effective, this new generation brings up a whole new idea of education. I personally believe that President Obama will go far with his plans. One thing I noticed about his speech was that he mentioned rankings between other countries. I know that being a prosperous country calls for competition, but knowing that the only reason for new technology and better education is because of our lower rankings on a graph gets me worried. President Obama should have focused on what he can do to improve this country for the sake of shaping the future, not for first place on a pie chart. The point of Obama's speech was the concept on 'Shaping the Future'. The parts of his speech I mostly found interesting was when Barack talked about change. This really motivated me for our President's upcoming year in office. Shaping the future is important because soon, our generation will be running businesses and being the president. I enjoyed Barack's care for our generation and future generations. All in all, President Obama gave a fascinating speech about our country and I greatly respect his ability to communicate with Congress.

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i really like the state of the union address this year. i thought obama did a very good job of keeping it positive. i liked that he had so many plans for the future. his idea for education was definetly my favorite idea, he made a much better plan then no child left behind and eve set reachable goals for these schools. the fact that he wants children to have a quality education is a quality that i admire. that he wanted to make america great and had a plan for it was good. i do wish however that he had talked a little mpre about the problems at hand and the plan for the present. overall i liked the state of union address.

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I agree with President Obama's points where we need improvement. I am actually suprised by some of the fact that were mentioned in the adress. I too believe education is a major thing we must improve along with our need for oil and fossil fuels. However, I am a bit skeptical on how all these things will be done especially because we are in enormous debt. Nobody knows for sure if President Obama and congress will make this happen. I do like the speech but words are meaningless without action.

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Think about everything he's aiming for. Then ask your self about the one factor that matters the most when fulfilling goals: money. Where is the money going to come from? As far as I remember, we are growing in debt because of failed things such as the bailout.

I admit Obama made a spectacular appearance, and really emphasized the need for bipartisan legislation because nothing positive gets down when houses of Congress always disagree for a bill to represent their party or their people. Like always, his charismatic personality truly sets a stage ready to be rocked.

So Obama's speech was generalized around, "Winning the Future" whereas he should really be focusing on boosting our economy back up. Though he mention that the economy has been rising and that jobs have been created, unfortunately the unemployment rate is still up at around 9% according to the Obama administration. Furthermore, Obama stated that in his speech he wanted to research more more into technology advances to surpass countries like China. All of these things cost a substantial amount of money, and as everyone should know, we are in debt trillions or somewhere around that figure.

Is the president aiming for the perfect world of Utopia with education and energy? By giving states incentives if the teachers get their student's scores up, the president is borderline controlling education. While I agree and disagree that education is a states issue, I agree with Obama when he talked about the importance of an education. Nowadays, many people need to have the education to go anywhere in life.

At times, I felt that President Obama was vague when discussing the immigration problem which brings me to another problem. The chief executive in office needs to cover every issue very similarly meaning that he/she should always balance out the time he spends discussing the topic. Also, the president needs to talk about the specifics of the policies and bills that he/she wishes to propose to Congress.

Sorry I couldn't write more, analyzing an hour long speech is not what I had in mind. Honestly, I believe that things about America really need to change for this century, due to a huge difference between our culture and the culture a while back. It's funny because I moved from a conservative view of government to undecided. As long as we are a "free" nation, you're not doing THAT bad of a job as president.

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I believe President Obama's State of the Union address put a lot of minds at ease. As of late his favorability late has gone up due to the way he handled the incident in Arizona, and I believe his State of the Union, for the most part, only made things better. He addressed several important things in his speech, one of the primary things was America's steps to fully adopt clean energy. It's about time we stopped polluting our planet and paying more money than we need to. Besides, theres no need for another incident with BP like the one in the gulf. Basically what I'm saying is... I'm hyped for this clean energy thing! Mr. Obama also mentioned his desire to reform Education yet again, and I must say his goals are quite admirable. Wanting to get into College myself, seeing America have the most College graduates again sounds good to me, and if Obama can even start to make progress at achieving this his favorability will certainly skyrocket. I am not the most well versed in the world of politics, but from what I do know, I was pleased with the plans Obama has in store for our country. I just hope we can pull his plans off!

2011 State of the Union Address

I really liked and agreed with President Obama's State of the Union Address. One of the things that I noticed about his speech is that since the beginning of his term the president has stayed true to his agenda for the most part. In his most recent State of the Union, President Obama brought up several good points which all lead in the direction of our country moving forward; both education and technology wise.

I definately agreed with Barack Obama when he mentioned that it was the job of both parents and teachers to lead our students, but the job starts in our homes. I was also glad to hear that we would be replacing No Child Left Behind with Race to the Top. I think that trying a different form of incentive could work better than the one that we have now.

During the State of the Union when the president started talking about our country's need for innovation I actually got excited. I feel like compared to other nations that ours is behind in the areas of technology that were mentioned in the president's speech. I don't think that the high speed trains were as important as he made them seem though. In my opinion we should be more worried about more solar powered technology. I also think that the fact that President Obama invited those innovative guests to see his speech was nice. All in all I think that the State of the Union was a good plan for us and I hope that we can stcik to it and lead America into the future on a good note.

2011 State of the Union

I agreed with most of the things President Obama said in his State of the Union address to Congress. I especially like his use of innovation as a motif and how he was able to like innovation to pretty much everything that he said. I believe that he was right to say that we need to focus on education and science because we are getting behind the rest of the world. His Race to the Top ideas were very good, and a much-needed change from No Child Left Behind. This could actually help improve education and make schools strive for the highest academic achievement, not just try to pass a test.

I thought it was very interesting, and strategic, for the president to have the people sitting in the first lady's box that he did. He chose people that he could site as examples that his new policies to create jobs were working, but he also chose people, like the science fair winner, that show how important innovation and creating new technologies is. He was able to show how his policies were working to create new jobs, but also show that more work is needed to be done in order for the United States to thrive again.

One of the most important things he talked about, I think, is the need for more clean energy. In his speech, the president got across the need for new, alternative energy sources, and how the government is trying to help with finding these. He also said that they aren't just giving out money, you have to earn it, which I think is an important point. They can't just give out money to any random person on the street and say, "Hey, build some solar panels!" They have to give the money to teams of people that could actually help our planet, and our economy, by creating new, clean sources of energy that are cost-efficient. I believe that this was a very important topic to touch on in the State of the Union address.

I liked Obama's State of the Union address. I thought there were alot of important topics covered such as education and energy. He did a good job discussing things that he would do or has done. He talked about his new education program which I think will be much better than the current program, No Child Left Behind. I think it was important that Obama address this so that people know what he is trying to accomplish in terms of education and the new standards.

He talked alot about what he wants teh infastucture to be like. He talked alot about high speed rail and teh pending availability to all americans. I think this is a good goal, but a little far out of reach, yes.

He did a very good job setting high goals for teh nation in a time that needs them. We need to know what the president is expecting of Congress and the progress in America. Now the question is: How long will it take for Congress to jump on board? Then, how long will it take for the american people to see results?

The State of The Union 2011

Obama stepped up on that podium, and devliered the State of the Union with gusto, promising a bright future for America, and many brilliantideas for solutions to the nation's problems. I'm not going to be the one to say his speech was perfect, though. It had it's flaws.

Obama adressed higher standards of clean energy, yet was vague about the details. Sure, you can pour as much money as you want into clean energy, but actually getting that many people to depend on such energy is another story entirely. And with the deficiet rising, and the economy rather shaky, can it really be ensured that eighty percent our nation will rely on clean energy sources in the future?

That said, I believe that replacing the No Child Left Behind program was one of the smarter things his adminstration has planned to do. According to his speech, with less than 1% of what was already spent on the education budget, they were able to launch a program that came up with plenty of new ways to improve education and working conditions for students, and teachers, respectively. If such an act was easily achieved, on suich as small budget, certainly the federal government can takes steps toward either reforming, or absolishing the No Child Left Behind Act.

Finally, concerning his plans for the economy, I see the wisdom in his endavors. Switching from cars, to high speed rail, as well as lowering corporate tax rates, without adding to our deficit. He was vague on the details of these undertakings, but it was expressed that these were simply ideas. As well, aiming to increase American exports, that would provide thousands of new jobs, would be a tremendous boon the American economy, and a good step towards a better future.

Overall, I support Obama's plans for the future, and wish him, and his adminsistration, the best of luck for the rest of their term.

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I think that president Obama did very well at the state of the union. He had a very good agenda, and was very encouraging throughout his speech. I also liked how he started his speech talking about the terrible shooting in Tucson. Then during his speech Obama made several key points about education, jobs and the economy, and also about technology and innovation.
I agreed with his new approach to education as he wanted to get rid of no child left behind and create Race to the Top. I believe that this new program can really help Americans as they will be exposed to new ways of teaching and better standards. Another key point that Obama made was about the economy, in his speech he acknowledges that the economy isn’t doing so well and unemployment rates aren’t getting any better. He sets out a plan to help more Americans get jobs and make our economy better.
The third point is about technology and throughout president Obama’s he talks about clean energy technology and biomedical technology. He states that the engineers of our time could create something great and they could solve the hardest problems about clean energy. He says that we need to get behind this innovation. President Obama says some very powerful things during this speech and really gets Americas moral higher. He’s looking for good things in the future and so should the people.

I agree with Obama. I think all the changes that he is trying to make are some great ideas. I don't find anything bad out of this. The only thing that I might possibly think in a negative way is can we trust him? Do we belive that he can follow up with everything he said and make our country become better? I do believe in Obama and I think he can make this a better nation. I do think he will follow up with what he says. I agree with the State of the Union.

2011 State of The Union

I agree with most of what Obama was talking about in the State of the Union speech. I agreed with him when he said that schools needed to be better to compete with other countries. I didn't agree with how he said he was going to make them better because he said he was going to give money to the schools that showed them a plan to increase scores. The schools that need help are the ones that are not making good plans so they should be given money if they use their plan. He also said it has help 40 states. That means there are still some that haven't made new plans.

I agreed with him when he said that we needed to work together. He said we need to work together so we can still be the biggest and strongest country. He said Congress needed to work together so we could get things done. He said he was willing to work together with Republicans and Democrats to be productive.

I also agreed with him when he said we need to rebuild the economy. I agree with this because if the economy was better their would be less unemployed people. I think more jobs need to be created and we should do things that make the economy better.

I agreed with what he said about illegal imagration. He said that we should let the people that came here to study and can help the country instead of sending them back to compete agaist us. We should protect the borders and enforce our law. He said he would work with Republicans and Deocrats to handle illegal immigration. I agreed with this and thought it was a good thing to put in the State of the Union speech.

2011 State of the Union

Obama's State of the Union speach was extremely well done, in my opinion. He did a good job discussing the most important issues facing our country. I thought it was very cool that he talked about wanting bipartisanship between the Senate and new Republican House of Representatives. The main focus of the speach was our troubled economy. Many people are losing their jobs and houses, and it is important that Obama highlight these issues and explain his plan of action to help the economy back on its feet. I also liked how he discussed making the No Child Left Behind law more flexible. Finally, I really liked his plan to help train workers for jobs with new technology. This will help decrease unemployment by giving workers who have limited skills, new and useful skills.

The state of the union address that president Obama recently gave was one of the first state of the union addresses that I have properly listened to in a long time. I agree with many things he said including better education in schools because that is the what sets us up for life and if it is not the best then we will have a harder time in life. Also, in that we need more clean energy sources, because the earths oil will eventually run out and then what are we so-post to do. That is just a few of the points that president Obama said in the address that I thought were important.

2011 State of the Union

I think that President Obama handled the State of the Union address very well. It was very nice that he opened his speech by talking about the Tuscon shooting. He talked about how we need to work together to help the children in America to become more educated so we can compete with Asian countries. He discussed his plans for helping the economy become what it was before. It was nice to see that Obama recognized that Congress was trying to be more civil within the parties.
President Obama talked a lot about change and he said we a lot. It was nice that he said we a lot because it showed that he doesn't think of himself as better than the other citizens. He talks a lot about new technology to help us go green and lower our dependency on oil companies.

State of the Union address 2011

While watching the State of the Union address in class I agreed with Obama's motivational mind set and his multiple solutions. His speech was very distinct and straight to the point. It was also inspirational and efficacious. During the speech, Obama urged Congress to set aside thoughts of the next major election and resolve to help spending on education, infrastructure, and policies that will improve U.S. innovation as a way to get the economy back on track. The goals he explained had a lot of expectations and he wanted to do something big, like the sky was his limit. Obama also said he believed that Congress must work together since voters have decided to split power among the two major parties in the House and Senate. "We will move forward together, or not at all - for the challenges we face are bigger than party, and bigger than politics."

Obama called for investments in biomedical research, information technology, and clean energy technology. He also called for 80 percent of U.S. electricity to come from clean sources by 2035. He believes the U.S. is the best innovator. I also strongly agreed with Obama's goals of education for the future. He listed multiple importances for higher education in the U.S. and focused on the importance of parents incorporated with education for children. He urged Congress to approve a permanent college tuition tax credit worth $10,000 for four years of higher education, which would tremendously make a difference in the long run.

2011 State of The Union Address

President Obama has a great plan, agenda, and perception for America. Presidnet Obama also focuses not only on the major factors but also the small things that can make this country better for all of us.

The major point that President Obama planned were as follows: Innovations, Education, and Rebuilding. The take President Obama has on politics is unique, he plans everything, organizes, and then addresses them. I watched the enhanced version of The State of The Union Address on whitehouse.gov and YouTube. this version includes graphs and statistics that prove and help better understand the information being provided.

Out of the three main key points, I think education is the most important because it not only sets up the present and future for Americans but also is lagging behind in America. According to one of the graphs in The State of The Union Address, America is currently in 9Th place when it comes to education. "The No Child Left Behind" act is obviously not working enough and so Obama created an improvised plan called, "Race To The Top". I noticed a lot of Obama's ideas and way of governing America. He plans ahead and sets major, yet achievable goals for us Americans to gain.

Innovation is the first key point that is discussed but is probably second important. It is the future of America and how we create a better life for ourselves. It is the new technologies and the inventions that make America great. One of President Obama's plans is to make 80% of Americas electricity come from clean, natural energy by the year 2035. President Obama talks about the other countries success compared to Americas success in innovation tecchnology also known as, new inventions. Hopefully America will strive to excellence in the upcoming years.

The last key point is rebuilding. Now, rebuilding can lead to many different meaning such as rebuilding in tecchnology, community, or sociality. This is just as important as the other two main points but i decided to prioritize the three theme to my personal opinion.

President Obama is good for our nation in many more ways and should be reelected in 2012. These are the main key points I picked up from the 2011 State of The Union Address.

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In his address to Congress i thought president Obama was very encouraging. I liked the fact that he started first with observing the tragedy in Tuscon Arizona. The president discussed a lot a bout the economy. he said that America still has the biggest econy in the world. he discussed the need of bipartisanship and cooperation between the two parties so things could get done. I liked the fact that Obama talking about bipartisanship instead of the congress member's always thinking about the next election.Obama acknowledge the need for improved education so students in America can compete with students in Asia. He used the word change, together, and future a lot. I agree with the president in the case that education needs to improve so that students in America can create better technologies that students in Asia. the president talked a lot about innovation and how the Nation need to move towards cleaner energy. President Obama also discussed the need for the new generation to cease this moment has our very own "sputnik moment". This should be taken as a time to put a concided effort into creating new and better technology. President Obama also talked about some miltary effors in the middle east. he claims that al-queada is under more pressure than any point since 2001. America has been a country of hope and choices since its orgins.

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while watching the 2011 state of the union i was very imopressed with Barack Obama, He is a very convincing person when watching the video. I like how he talked about education in his speech, the only thing i didnt like is how he was trying to take out the "no child left behind". I feel like it helps the kids of america passing school. Other then that he is approching the education seriously which is needed. Also the way he approached the jobs are needed is very important to this country since our economy is going down and we are in a reccession. it is very true wat he said, "most of our jobs are going out of seas". so many people are losing houses and their belongings since they dont have a job. the innovation is also a major topic, the transportation would be nice if we are able to travel around the U.S in half of the time. I dont like how he really wants to compete with other countries, we should just go on our own pace to reach to the top."They're investing in research and new technologies. Just recently, China became the home to the world's largest private solar research facility, and the world's fastest computer." Onother thing that i dont like about his speech is the topic about using money. Obama is using to much money trying to fix this country but it wont work it would just bring us down. We are using trillion of dollars wich is to much money on things that we do not need and plus it is too much.

2011 State of the Union

While watching the State of the Union address during class, I kept thinking one thing to myself: it is very easy to agree with all of what Obama is saying. His tactics for laying out issues and touching on subjects were very motivational and he knew exactly how to please the crowd. He scarcely avoided subjects, and never hesitated to tell of what needed to be done. He was a huge condoner of the future, and always looked upon what lie ahead of us in the next few years. Although touching on the future is a surefire way to get America inspired and believing in change, I think at these times it is almost necessary to look at the present, and what has been done and is being done for us now.

I agreed very strongly with his views on education, and how that is an important factor in our country and how it will be able to run in years to come. Education is what shapes our nation, and is what leads people to do great things. Education is not something that can wait, and I believe Obama realizes that as well. I also strongly agreed with his views on clean energy technology, and how these were proponents that were necessary in our society. Barack Obama knows that to keep his followers and his fans, he must work on ways to keep our nation a clean and safe place to live. Lastly, I agreed with the way he handled the recession and how he decided that stimulus was needed. The economy is something that will only get worse before it gets better. I believe Obama is trying to desperately trying to tell America that important issues like these will take time, so America must give him time.

State of the Union 2011

After hearing President Obama's State of the Union speech, I realized what a motivational speaker Obama is and how his positive attitude reassures all Americans that there is hope to improve our nation. It was great to see the Republicans and Democrats sitting together, making it clear how Obama is trying to get more done by having both parties work together. He said, "We will move forward together or not at all." Throughout the speech, Obama clearly defines visions that he has for our nation and ways to achieve them. He talks a lot about the economy since this is one of the most important topics right now, as we have been in a recession and many people are still out of work and losing their houses. He touches on education, ways to help our environment, and technology advancements, making clear goals for improvement in all these areas, showing his strong desire to do what is best for the people. He uses examples such as the Allen brothers, who reinvented their roofing company to move into the future by building solar shingles to show how common people are working towards innovation for our future. I feel confident that Obama will do his best for our country after this powerful speech. It was inspiring when he said, "We do big things," and "The idea of America endures. Our destiny remains our choice." Overall, this State of the Union address was very hopeful and made the future look bright with Obama's leadership.

President Obama's State of the Union Address 2011

I found President Obama's State of the Union Address to be very concise and straightforward while still being inspirational and powerful. Before delivering his speech, President Obama gave his respects to the victims of the Tuscon Shooting. He then dove into his goals for the next few years. His plans included investing in innovation, reforming education, and rebuilding the nation's infrastructure.

President Obama wants to cut tax money that goes into oil companies in order to fund the research of renewable energy technology. He believes that a renewable energy market will create millions of new jobs for the unemployed. Although I like President Obama's ideas, I believe his goals are a little unrealistic. By 2034, President Obama wants 80% of the country's electricity to come from clean energy sources. An even more unrealistic goal is having 1 million electric vehicles on the road by 2015. These are admirable goals; However, 2035 is actually not that far in the future. Will President Obama be able to initiate his plans to reach his goals in his remaining 2 years in office? It is highly doubtful, considering the party-line divides in Congress.

President Obama also discussed ending the "No Child Left Behind" policy and investing in his "Race to the Top" program in efforts to reform and improve education for young children. This was my favorite part of his speech--I always admire the amount of emphasis he places on how children are the future of the nation. I completely agree with President Obama, and support the actions he is taking to change the education programs of America in order to compete with the rest of the world.

Lastly, President Obama mentioned rebuilding the nation's infrastructure. He wants to fix bridges and railroads, and create high-speed rails that will be available to 80% of the people. I like this goal because it will create new jobs as well as improving the state of America.

In short, President Obama reiterated his original campaign message--Change. However, will he be able to change the nation in his remaining 2 years in office? I agree and like his ideas, but I highly doubt any of them will become true in the next decade.

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There were many different area's Barak Obama covered durring the 2011 State of the Union speech. Such topics I felt to be more important then others were: competition,education, and economy. As Obama pointed out competition is fierce right now more and more states are passing us buy on the race to the top and that has to do with education. I completely agree that education is key. And our generation is slacking off/not taking it as seriously. Obama believes that family plays a huge role in determining how much a child will take their studies seriously and it's true. Logically if you know that your child has a test or a big essay to write and you decide to let them stay the night before it's due and watch Glee then it's partially the parent to blame for not saying or motivating the kid to get up off there bum and do there homework. Not sayig it's ust the parents fault infact it;s more of the childs fault. Obama's preech to get children to want to work harder is so important. It's teaching us that what we are doing right now is determining what we'll be doing 3 or 4 yers from now.

The second point I would like to point out is our economy. We ar going through a huge economic downfall. With all of these job losses it'd getting harder and harder for the average person to pay the bills or even send there kid to college. Thats why I agree with Obama on reshaping this economy. We need to pick those people back up on their feet. Thats why we are giving tax cutts to the middle class, or funding different organizations to raise money. There is a problem but the question is what are we going to do to fix it?

"Our Generation's Sputnik Moment"

President Obama's State of the Union, did little of what it was purposed to do and lacked to fully address the state of the union. In fact at times it appeared if Obama was avoiding the entire concept of addressing it. Obama began with respectful congratulations to the new speaker of the house, John Boehner, as well as a heartfelt condolence to the shot victim and house of representative member Gabrielle Gifford.

But what eager citizens sitting on their couches all across the country, whether in a trailer or in a multi-million dollar mansion, did not have a chance to hear was the oh so promised change that the Obama campaign was centered around. There was plenty of talk about the historical man on the moon, but little about the trillion dollar national deficit or the increase in unemployment.

He went on and on about all the things Americans should be working hard to accomplish by certain years and how to do them. While these goals were a charismatic balloon of hope the inside of that balloon it appeared to be empty. The air needed to fill it up was lacking because of the minimal chances of these things actually happening based on the TRUE current state of the union.

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and the infrastructure of the US were the three main discussion points of the address. Not too far into his speech Obama declared “it's not just the winner of the Super Bowl who deserves to be celebrated, but the winner of the science fair.” His statements were extremely inspiring and surely quote worthy and any nerdy student couldn’t help but to revel in such a glorious utopia. But at last it was hard to focus on advancing in bioengineering, advancements in clean energy, better education encouraged to states with more federal funding, and finding ways to fit in illegal immigrants to our country when all of this involves more FEDERAL spending. More spending that our seemingly giant piggy bank of federal money can’t handle because it has already been broken open and now we are borrowing money sinking deeper and deeper into dept.

So while I sat wishing ever so hard to believe these things were going to happen, and trying to ignore the fact the current state of the union was not nearly so much as the rainbows and butterflies flying out of Obama’s mouth it was just impossible. The overall feeling of the state of the union address seems far better renamed as the Obama Campaign, 2012! And unless we really aren’t in debt as Obama neglected to speak about, it appears to be we are far from our generations ‘Sputnik moment’.

"America is not just a place on a map, but a light to the world"

On January 25th, 2011 President Barack Obama delivered his State of the Union speech. It was not only articulate and powerful, it was motivational. Obama took the time to recognize and respect the recent shooting of one of his government workers, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. He then moved on to speak about his main themes. Obama touched on the topics of education, the economy, and the need to advance more in technology. The fact that he listed specific steps in how he has, or how he is planning to achieve these goals, made me appreciate this speech. He set goals like 80% of America will come from clean energy by 2035, and that we will have a million electric vehicles on our streets by 2015. These goals are big, and Obama's optimism only makes me believe them more. I like that he planned to eliminate the billion of dollars currently being given to oil companies to help bio medical research and investigate clean energy technology instead. The way he spoke of a specific example of the success of Race to the Top touched my, and I'm sure citizens all over our country, heart greatly. He is well aware of this, Obama said things that would grab the average citizens attention-that would matter to their everyday behavior, such as the progress of economics. He restored hope by reminding America that we still have the largest and most prosperous economy in the world. After the State of the Union address in 2011,I was proud to call Barack Obama my President.

"What comes of this moment is up to us. What comes of this moment will be determined not by whether we can sit together tonight," he continued, "but whether we can work together tomorrow."

Obama Sate of the Union 2011

In his address to Congress i thought president Obama was very encouraging. I liked the fact that he started first with observing the tragedy in Tuscon Arizona. The president discussed a lot a bout the economy. he said that America still has the biggest econy in the world. he discussed the need of bipartisanship and cooperation between the two parties so things could get done. Obama acknowledge the need for improved education so students in America can compete with students in Asia. He used the word change, together, and future a lot. I agree with the president in the case that education needs to improve so that students in America can create better technologies that students in Asia. the president talked a lot about innovation and how the Nation nedd to move towards cleaner energy.