Last night, Janurary, 25th 2011, Prestident Obama made his second State of the Union Address. However, this years Address was much different and many aspects. For the first time in 100 years, lawmakers crossed the aisles to sit with the opposite party. There was a mixture of blue and red all around the room. The idea of sitting in such a fashion came around after the shootings in Tucson and many lawmakers agreed to this proposition. Many were surprised about some of the bipartisan seating partners because many of the pairs had at one time or another spared about an issue that they felt very strongly about. Many members commented saying that they felt like they were back in high school asking eachother who they were going to sit by. As expected, not all of the members felt that they should sit in such a way and made it clear that they were going to sit by those of their own party. Some made comments saying that members have always been allowed to sit where ever they want and that it was just likely that the members simply sat together because they knew eachother. Congressman Udall commented saying that if the members cannot sit together on an important night like this, then how will we be able to work together in times of need?
I thought that last nights State of the Union Address was a huge step for our nation. I grew up with the assumption that the two parties simply never worked with eachother and they are always fighting against eachother. Not to mention I thought that they just hated eachother and refused to agree on anything that a member of the opposite party says. I always thought, do they ever work together to try and accomplish something that will help our great nation? Doesn't it make sense that two heads work better than one? Or in this case two parties. Up until yesterday I believed all of this. I can remember last years speech where it was basically a wall separating each party and it seemed as though they wouldn't even look at eachother. What good does that honestly do? We are supposed to be the UNITED States not the Republican and Democratic states. For the first time in a very long time I believe that our leadership finally got it through their thick skulls that maybe we should work together to unite our nation and work together for a change. I think that finally they looked at our nation and how it has been struggling and thought maybe it would be a good idea to work together to solve the many problems that we have going on right now. Maybe instead of having that separation of blue and red you would be able to look at the room and it would simply look purple because of this idea of being united together for the common good of our nation. And who knows maybe they will be able to find a way to solve our nations huge amount of debit so we can be a free standing nation and not depend on all these other nations to keep us afloat. I think that last night's address was a huge turning point for our nation and I can't wait to see what happens as a result.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/State_of_the_Union/state-union-2011-lawmakers-cross-aisle-sit-make/story?id=12760732
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