State of the Union Address to Congress and President Barack Obama

President Barack Obama: President Barack Obama issued a sweeping challenge to Congress and the American people Tuesday night to do more for the poor and middle class and to end the nasty partisan political fight that has characterized his six years in office, according to The Chronicle Herald. And he called for a better politics where we appeal to each other basic decency instead of our basest fears and The president issued a broadly optimistic report about the country in his nationally televised State of the Union address to Congress, newly dominated by opposition Republicans in both chambers for the first time during his presidency. He spoke of millions of new jobs created, modestly rising wages, a stock market that has soared as the country climbed out of the Great Recession that greeted him when he took office in 2009. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.