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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Obama's goal: Get agenda moving, people believing By BEN FELLER,Associated Press Writer - 1 hour 13 minutes ago Send IM Story Print WASHINGTON – Facing a divided Congress and a dissatisfied nation, President Barack Obama will unveil a jobs-heavy agenda in his State of the Union address Wednesday, retooling his message more than his mission. His goal: Get the economy, the confidence of voters and his own presidency on surer footing. Obama will offer fresh details about how he wants to salvage an overhaul of health care, rein in the national debt and help businesses hire again. He will call for education reform and more money for schools, take responsibility for mistakes in his first year and follow up his speech with a dash to Florida to announce $8 billion in awards for high-speed rail. Two themes will underpin the entire address _ reassuring millions of Americans that he understands their struggles and convincing people that he is working to change Washington even as he finds himself working within its old political ways. Yet for all the new wrinkles he offers, Obama's moment will be measured largely by how well he reconnects with the public. "In this political environment, what I haven't always been successful at doing is breaking through the noise and speaking directly to the American people," Obama conceded to an interviewer last week. This is his chance _ speeches like this one can draw 30 million to 50 million viewers, sometimes more. The White House knows the 9 p.m. EST address has enormous stakes. Obama rode a tide of voter frustration into office and now is getting smacked by it himself. Change is working against him. "The president is going to explain why he thinks the American people are angry," Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs said Wednesday morning. The guest list provides a rough outline of the story Obama wants to tell. Sitting with first lady Michelle Obama in an elevated box overlooking the floor of the House will be people with stories of success and struggles, from immigrants who started businesses to families having a hard time making ends meet. The agenda itself will have a familiar ring. Obama says he will not retreat from the big issues he campaigned on and tried to get done in his first year, when political momentum was strong. He will push for health care, regulation of Wall Street, energy and immigration reform, and continue the global fight against terrorists. Among additional ideas expected: An emphasis on education, with calls for more accountability for performance but also more money to support reforms. Obama's next budget proposal is likely to suggest consolidating a series of elementary and secondary school programs, but overall, would increase Education Department spending more by than 6 percent. Obama also will prod Congress to enact new jobs legislation, seek a freeze on some domestic spending for three years and try to blunt the impact of a Supreme Court decision that gives corporations much more freedom to influence elections through political advertising. And a day after the Senate rejected his plans to create a bipartisan task force to tackle the federal deficit, Obama will announce that he's creating a similar panel by executive order. The goal of the panel _ likely to be comprised of 10 Democrats and eight Republicans _ would be to make recommendations for reducing the deficit to Congress, though the weakness of a presidential commission is that there's no way to guarantee the recommendations will be passed. Meanwhile, Obama's White House is still feeling the jolt of last week's Senate election in Massachusetts. When little-known Republican Scott Brown won the seat held for nearly a half-century by the late Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy, the result was widely viewed as a symbol of frustration with the economy and the powers that be. So Obama will try to more sharply cast his messages to address people's daily concerns. That starts with creating more jobs at a time of 10 percent unemployment but extends to the other topics he will address, including the government's ongoing habit of spending more money than it has. Then again, Obama already has been trying to couch his initiatives in real-life terms. In his first address to Congress 11 months ago, a speech too early in his tenure to be considered a State of the Union, Obama talked of people living with the economic anxiety of sleepless nights, bills they could not pay and jobs they had lost. "It's an agenda that begins with jobs," Obama said that night in February. It still is, but in a much tougher political environment for him and his party. Obama remains a well-liked figure, polls show, but his overall approval rating and grades for handling issues like the economy have dropped significantly. A new Gallup Poll finds that Obama is the most politically polarizing president in recent history, with 88 percent of Democrats approving of his job performance while just 23 percent of Republicans do. He has the twin political challenges of giving Democratic lawmakers an agenda they can rally around in this midterm election year, yet showing emboldened Republicans and a skeptical public that he is serious about reversing Washington's off-putting partisanship. Obama, knowing the public angst about government bailouts and big-bank bonuses, also will position himself as a voice for working families. He has adopted the word "fight" to describe his stand against special interests. As Gibbs said Tuesday, "I don't doubt that at times he'll be feisty." Foreign affairs and terrorist threats will get plenty of attention, too. Obama will give his assessment of the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The administration is coping with international nuclear standoffs in North Korea and Iran and a Mideast peace process that remains as vexing as ever. Obama is also expected to touch on post-earthquake life in Haiti, which has faded slightly from public attention but remains an epic humanitarian crisis. The night before the speech, two sections in particular _ health care and government reform _ were still being worked on by White House officials. Obama was working up to the last hours to craft the speech while aides, at the same time, labored to shorten it. Obama's message will be fleshed out in greater detail afterward as he travels to Florida on Thursday and New Hampshire on Tuesday for jobs-focused appearances, and when he submits his 2011 budget to Congress on Monday. On health care, Obama will map a way forward for legislation that is suddenly mired; Brown's win in Massachusetts eliminated the minimum of 60 Democratic votes in the Senate that Obama needed to push past Republican delays and get a final bill passed. The president also will renew his call for immigration reform, a volatile issue once considered a first-year priority but lately sent to the back burner. ___ Associated Press writers Philip Elliott, Julie Pace, Jennifer Loven and Andrew Taylor contributed to this story. 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