Obama Regrets Divided U.S. Before Final State of the Union
- Obama interviewed by NBC's ``Today'' show from White House
- President will deliver final annual address tonight at Capitol
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President Barack Obama said he regrets that political divisiveness in the U.S. grew during his seven years in the White House and he plans to use his final State of the Union address Tuesday night to call for the nation to unite.
“There’s no doubt that politics in Washington are so much more divided than the American people are,” Obama said Tuesday morning in an interview on NBC’s “Today” show. “Part of what I want to do in this last address is remind people we have a lot of good things going for us. And if we can get our politics right it turns out we are not as divided on the ideological spectrum as people make us out to be.”