President Obama’s State of the Union address hit on a couple
of my predictions but went left on the others. The president’s speech
highlighted race, Cuba, tax reform and the middle class, but I predicted that
the economic growth, education with and emphasis on community college,
immigration would be his strongest point made the night of the address.
I predicted that
the president would talk strongly about the economy; the president addressed
the topic first in his address. The president said, “Tonight, after a
breakthrough year for America, our economy is creating jobs at the fastest pace
since 1999.” The economy growth was suggested in the previous column on the GDP
growth rate in the past year. The president went as far to convey his economic
growth and middle class proposal by inviting Rebekah Erler to the address to
highlight the middle class needed help by the government. In that same section
of the address my prediction ended up being the broad look at the middle class.
The previous column written focused on the economic growth not the proposals
the president would make on helping the growth of the middle class.
One of the points
I completely missed the equality of gays and gay marriage that the president
made a topic in the night. The president acknowledged that the country’s
progressive stance on the issue has seen that he said, “seven in ten Americans
call home.”
Another left turn
that I found myself missing to predict happened to be the president’s voice on
the race issues in the country in the matter of Ferguson and New York, a topic
that eluded my thoughts when trying to put my predictions together. How the
president himself wanted a more unified country acknowledging the cops and
families fear for them and also the minority parents that have a fear for there
sons as well, a definite oversight as a possible talking point with the
address.
Education and the
president’s proposal to congress about the free two years of community college
predicted presented in the speech for congress to be ready for in the near
future. Granted what made this prediction easier the president’s spoiler the
two weeks prior to the night of the address. Now the presented brought up the
idea of affordable college as sticking points.
The point of energy
and the country ability to efficiently cut down pollution and add to federal
lands presented as achievements under the president’s administration in the
address. He did not go into depth though went as a point of acknowledgement and
proceeded with the rest of his. Thought that the president might have gone a
little deeper in what the administration would plan or propose to help the
energy strategy.
A missed
prediction of the president bold claim of unity between his administration and
the Republican leadership also missed my list of proposed points and even
though this point happened later in the speech, it posed as a rallying point
for bipartisanship and a better effort of communication between the president
and republican leadership.
In whole the
President did talk about some of my predictions but besides education and the
economy, the president breezed over the rest of my points. As in terms
immigration the president did not go into as large of depth or proposal on the
issue. The State of the Union address predictions were of some success but
failed to hit the tougher point that the president made a part of his agenda
for the upcoming final two years of his administration and presidency.
