Tag: Obama’s Farewell Address

NOVANEWS By: Jack Rasmus The true legacies that will be remembered long-term will be the accelerating income inequality and the near-collapse of the Democratic Party. President Barack Obama's farewell address to the nation last night was a strange and disappointing attempt that failed to replicate the hope, energy, and optimism of his first 2008 address to the nation. Instead of celebrating the unity of all those who joined to put him in office, the mood was downbeat, with Obama warning listeners that the country had become more divided than ever during his intervening years in office, that democracy was threatened on many fronts – cultural, legal, and economic – and that the people to whom he was speaking, and throughout the United States, now had the task to take up the...