Just before his election in 2008, candidate Barack Obama declared that “we are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” From the closing lines of Tuesday’s State of the Union address, it appears that a little more than six years later, now President Obama thinks he’s gone a long way toward achieving that goal, saying that when it comes to the “work of remaking America,” “we’ve laid a new foundation.”
Here are the two final paragraphs from his speech:
Fifteen years into this new century, we have picked ourselves up, dusted ourselves off, and begun again the work of remaking America. We’ve laid a new foundation. A brighter future is ours to write. Let’s begin this new chapter — together — and let’s start the work right now.
Thank you, God bless you, and God bless this country we love.
The entire text of his prepared remarks can be found here.
