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| Obama2014 State of the Union address |
First reactions to President Obama's 2014 address were positive and reactions included the adjectives: Optimistic, Forceful, Feisty, Bipartisan and Patriotic.
His proposal to increase the minimum wage to $10.10 received a tumultuous applause.
Among one of the less favorable comments was the fact that the President barely mentioned the hot 2013 issue of "Gun Control", regardless of all the tragedy caused by guns also in 2013 resulting in numerous casualties, either accidentally or criminally, for lack of effective gun control laws in America.
Europeans hoping to hear more about what was going to be done about the NSA spy issue in relation to privacy rights of European Citizens also did not come away totally satisfied by the speech.
In general, however, it was one of President Obama's better speeches, which like the winter weather Washington was experiencing on the evening of the speech, basically left the Republican opposition in the cold, with very few new ground breaking proposals they could bring to the table in their rebuttal.
EU-Digest
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