Obama delivers address with stern sarcasm

President Barack Obama gave a stern and sarcastic State of the Union address on Wednesday, which closely followed my predictions about the subject matter of his speech.

Obama spent a majority of his speech talking about the economy, which was expected. What was surprising was the amount of time he spent speaking about job creation. At times he seemed uncompromising when he called to have a new jobs bill on his desk in a timely manner.

With health care reform being covered so closely by the media, there was some expectation that Obama would speak longer about this issue. He seemed to make a few well-written comments that seemed to be supported by a majority of Congress members. Another subject that Obama just barely touched on was higher education. While he only spoke about education for a short period of time, what he said should have been uplifting for people that are pursuing a higher education. He proposes to help out the people that choose to get a higher education by offering more grants.