Last night President Obama gave his 8th and last State of the Union address. He broke with a lot of traditions with this one, and it may have been for the better. Unlike every address in recent memory (even preceding him), he did not start out with the cliche "The state of the The Union is strong!"
... Instead, he started of indicating there was little point in laying out a grand agenda for his final year in office when it was pretty clear that he wouldn't be able to get it done. He thanked Speaker Ryan for working with him on getting a budget passed, and then laid out a framework of goals he felt the nation should embrace to move forward.
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