Washington: After a tough year capped by a bruising defeat for his Democrats in November’s midterm elections, no one would blame President Barack Obama if he were a bit down. On Friday at his year-end press conference, he was anything but down. “I’m energised. I’m excited about the prospects for the next couple of years,” Obama told reporters.
“Pick any metric that you want — America’s resurgence is real. We are better off,” he said, several hours before heading to his home state of Hawaii for the holidays with his family. “We are better positioned than we have been in a very long time.” 2014 was the best year for job growth in two decades, Obama said at a upbeat press conference during which he did not address ongoing thorny nuclear talks with Iran or the controversial report on the CIA's brutal treatment of terror suspects after the 9/11 attacks.
For the last two years of his presidency, Obama did not have it easy when dealing with a Congress run by rival Republicans.Just a few months ago, Obama seemed aloof, often hesitant a man who has lost the fire that carried him to a historic election victory in 2008.
