{"id":31101,"date":"2017-01-07T11:28:01","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T19:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=31101"},"modified":"2017-01-07T11:28:01","modified_gmt":"2017-01-07T19:28:01","slug":"president-obamas-weekly-address-preview-of-farewell-address-on-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=31101","title":{"rendered":"President Obama&#8217;s Weekly Address &#038; Preview Of Farewell Address On Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;Since the days of George Washington, presidents have delivered some form of final message while in office \u2013 a farewell address to the American people.  On Tuesday night, in Chicago, I\u2019ll deliver mine.  I chose Chicago not only because it\u2019s my hometown \u2013 where I met my wife and we started a family \u2013 but also because it\u2019s really where my career in public service began. The running thread through my career has been the notion that when ordinary people get involved, get engaged, and come together in collective effort, things change for the better. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7G5kMmnAp_8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the belief at the heart of this precious American experiment in self-government.  It\u2019s what gives work and purpose to each new generation.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s easy to lose sight of that truth in the day-to-day back-and-forth of Washington and our minute-to-minute news cycles.  But remember that America is a story told over a longer time horizon, in fits and starts, punctuated at times by hardship, but ultimately written by generations of citizens who\u2019ve somehow worked together, without fanfare, to form a more perfect union.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past eight years, we\u2019ve added our own new chapter to that story.<\/p>\n<p>Together, we\u2019ve turned an economy that was shrinking and losing jobs into one that\u2019s growing and creating jobs, with poverty falling, incomes rising, and wages that have jumped faster over the past few years than at any time in the past four decades. <\/p>\n<p>Together, we\u2019ve achieved what eluded politicians of both parties for a century \u2013 we\u2019ve moved 20 million more Americans from uninsured to insured, ended the days of discrimination against the up to half of Americans who have a preexisting condition, and secured new rights and protections for everybody with health insurance.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC&#8230;Since the days of George Washington, presidents have delivered some form of final message while in office \u2013 a farewell address to the American people. 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