In gearing up for his final State of the Union address, President Obama released a video explaining how this one will be different from all the others. Because he has no more campaigns to run or elections to win (as he said in last year's), and because he's never really taken a high view of American traditions, Obama promises this SOTU speech to be "nontraditional" -- all about the "big picture" and the future of America.

It opens, of course, with the president swaggering into frame to sit on the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office to tell Americans how "optimistic" he is about the next year despite having inherited a crisis seven years earlier.

"It's my last one," Obama says, "and as I’m writing [the speech], I keep thinking about the road that we’ve traveled together these past seven years, the people I’ve met, the stories that you’ve shared, the remarkable things that you’ve done to make change happen."

Because it takes "one American family" to "set this country on a better, stronger course for tomorrow," the president promises to instruct citizens on how to continue his legacy once he is gone from office:

Not just what I want to get done in the year ahead, but what we all need to do together in the years to come. The big things that will guarantee an even stronger, better, more prosperous America for our kids. The America we believe in. 

The "big things" are sure to include healthcare for all, guns for the few, and the hope for a Democratic successor.