Obama's State of the Union Adress

I was very interested to see this speech because for Obama there has been so much difficulty in this country. So many people have turned against him and lost faith in what he had initially promised this country. When he said at the beginning of his speech, "It's tempting to look back on these moments and assume that our progress was inevitable – that America was always destined to succeed." I was so amazed by how true and to the point he was. In reality our society has never expected difficulty, with all the new technology and the Internet our society is built around ease for the people. And now that there are difficult times people don't understand how to deal with it. I think Obama understands this completely. That the people are used to success, ease, and progress and in times where these things are few and far between that we must truly be a unified country, and turning against your leader is the first decision on the path to destruction. Obama then says, "So we face big and difficult challenges. And what the American people hope – what they deserve – is for all of us, Democrats and Republicans, to work through our differences; to overcome the numbing weight of our politics." Obama realized that in order for this country to overcome these difficulties we must be a united people. As soon as he said this it brought me back to our studying of the preamble and how we discussed the Perfect Union. How this union was necessary in order for this country to flourish. Then Obama said, "Despite our hardships, our union is strong." He is confident that although we have gone through so much as a country in the last couple years that there still is that bright future. That all those that have turned away must understand that only in perfect unity as a country can we ever establish the country that truly is a leader and model.