This year's State Of The Union speech was a very unique one in many ways. First off, it was extremely ambitious considering this is President Clinton's eighth and final year as President of the United States. The sheer amount of propositions brought up were mind boggling, especially for the average American viewer who is not able to comprehend all the slight tricks that President Clinton is using for his benefit throughout the speech. Of the many topics discussed by the president however, there were a few which I paid more attention to, and those are going to be the ones I discuss in more detail throughout this paper.
             First and foremost of the issues discussed this year was the whole debacle with the United States Supreme Court. It was plainly obvious from the start that this was a critical issue because of the absence of the entire Supreme Court from the speech. Although President Clinton doesn't go too far in length on this issue, it is apparent by his few very well made comments that he is disappointed with the whole situation. However, the Republicans still seem to not budge on their stance of not appointing the Democratic judges the president nominates, which has been a hot issue in Washington for a long time. I personally disagree with the Republicans on this issue because I think that even though the President does not nominate people of the same party, that is no reason for the Republican majority Senate to turn all of the nominations down. It is frankly not a very courteous thing for them to be doing at this time.
             Another major issue that startled mostly everyone at this speech was the plan to eliminate the national debt in thirteen years. Clinton combination of spending and other miscellaneous cuts is a bold plan for the country to be debt-free within a relatively short amount of time. My opinion on this is that the plan sounds wonderful, but I find it very hard to believe that this plan is a d...