President Obama's State of the Union proves he's not going to end his presidency quietly

President Obama's State of the Union proves he's not going to end his presidency quietly

"For a guy whose party lost both the House of Representatives and the Senate less than 80 days ago, President Barack Obama sure didn't act like it when he delivered his sixth and second-to-last State of the Union on Tuesday night,"writes Mic's Mark Kogan on Obama's Tuesday address to the nation, in which the president laid out an ambitious agenda covering policy issues from community college to tax cuts for the middle class. "With his last election behind him, Obama appears comfortable to once again serve as chief standard-bearer for the liberal left that catapulted him into office in 2008," writes Kogan. "The only thing that both Democrats and Republicans can be certain of is that Obama won't spend the last two years of his second and final term quietly planning his presidential library." + This is all well and good, but Obama's ambitious agenda resembled past addresses — full of promises, but short on specifics. + Republicans certainly aren't cowering in their boots. In defiance of the president, House Speaker John Boehner announced that he's invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to stand before Congress and push for new sanctions against its archenemy Iran. + It doesn't seem that America was paying attention, either: This year's State of the Union had the smallest audience since 2000. + The Republican "enhanced webcast" of the State of the Union also tried to edit out Obama's references to climate change.