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POTUS (President of The United States, President Barack Obama)'s Final State of The Union Address on January 12, 2016, 9:00 PM (EST)
Dear Friends & Neighbors,
President Barack Obama is photographed during a presidential portrait sitting for an official photo in the Oval Office, Dec. 6, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
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Windermere Blue Sunset (credit: Windermere Sun-Susan Sun Nunamaker)
President Barack Obama is the first President of the United States who fully appreciates and utilizes modern technology for reaching out to the American public. Aside from his expertise in American Constitution, we have seen his great communication skill in gathering grass-root support during the election campaigns and his perseverance in obtaining diversified but unified force from the American melting pot. Despite all the crisis faced during the past seven years, he has maintained his optimism and strength in convincing good percentage of the American public to focus on the fact that more than 14 million jobs had been created and nearly 18 million people are now with health coverage. But even more importantly, his eloquence insists that there is a brighter future awaits for all of us if we would simply work together. Despite all conflicts, obstacles, and difficulties presented to him, he remains the one who seeks consensus. He was the first and I hope will not be the last POTUS who responds to American people’s tweets. He demonstrates to us that the White House is not only approachable by or for special interest groups or lobbyists, but also for individual Americans any where, even in a small town in Central Florida. Check out some of his responses at @POTUS #AskPOTUS to American general public’s questions/concerns, below:
- Q: What are we going to do about making college more affordable? A: Expanded pell grants, capped loan repayments at 10% income, but now want to also make 2 yrs community college free.
- Q: federal funding was all but denied by Bobby Jindal for Medicaid and more, how can we fix that going forward? A: new LA Gov Edwards just expanded medicaid: gets 1000s coverage & helps the state budget. more states need to follow.
- Q: What is being done to combat climate change currently and what options can we see in the future? A: new power plant rule reduces biggest source of CO2;now we need to invest in clean energy tech, energy efficiency.
- Q: kobe, mj, or lebron. A: love em all, but as a bulls fan got to go with mj. in baton rouge, just met lsu freshman ben simmons- will be great
- Q: I love the ACA I still don’t understand why costs in health care keep rising. I have friends who go to Mex for things. Rx etc. A: health care inflation lowest in decades since ACA passed; problem is more costs passed to workers thru copays, etc.
- Q: how do you plan on helping end islamaphobia that us become so huge in our country, and how can we help? A: overwhelming majority of americans understand of diversity and religious pluralism is one of our greatest strengths…..so we all need to speak out against bias and stereotypes, to protect the freedom of others, and our own as well.
- Q: What will you be doing toward campaign finance reform in your last year as president? A: despite court cases like citizens united ill work with orgs/states across US to find new ways 2 reduce $ in politics
- Q: What is your greatest memory while being president? A: the night aca passed; standing on truman balcony with all staff who made it happen, knowing we’d helped millions.
- Q: Mr. President, I sincerely want to learn about the gun debate (& be more a discussion). What do you recommend as a resource(s)? A: great-we need well meaning folks from aall stripes to get info on how we can respect 2A and reduce gun violence….Alright everyone, this was a lot of fun. Thanks for the great conversation. i’ll be back soon!
The above italics are statements directly taken from original tweets, therefore observe much limitation by Twitter format. OK, that’s a wrap!
Windermerians and Floridians, you still have your chance to tweet this POTUS for the remaining of 2016! So, tweet away!
~Let’s Help One Another~
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