State of the Union Scheduled for Jan. 25

President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010

/ AP

President Obama is set to deliver his State of the Union address before Congress on Jan. 25.

The president has accepted an invitation from House Speaker John Boehner, sent in a letter today that notes an opportunity for bipartisan cooperation.

"A new Congress provides us a renewed opportunity to find common ground and address the priorities of the American people," the letter said.

The new Republican leader also paid recognition to Saturday's mass shooting in Tucson, Ariz., which shocked the nation and spurred the House to call off its regular business for the week.

"Recent events have reminded us of the imperfect nature of our representative democracy, but also how much we cherish the ideal that our government exists to serve the people," Boehner wrote. "Even in the wake of tragedy, we must never waiver from our obligation to carry out their will and provide solutions to keep moving our nation forward."

This will be Mr. Obama's second State of the Union address, in which he will lay out his policy agenda for the coming year. It will be his fourth appearance before a joint session of Congress.

[Cattzen]

This year's speech will be better then last year's with the improvements to our country and the road to recovery from the detrimental Conservative Agenda on the Average Americans.

Wait until next year!

[souljam76]

Hopefully Obama will be talking about Iran and North Korea in his address and I sure hope Obama also talks about how Jesus died for our sins and how God created this Earth.

[abhorlibs]

I will turn off my TV at the very second coverage begins. I hope the ratings people notice. Maybe if a whole bunch of us do the same thing...

[RobAla]

I think we already know the state of the Union: Massive unemployment, massive national debt, and a bloated federal government feeding off American citizens.

[abhorlibs]

But what you will hear is: "We have created jobs, we have created new green jobs, we have given all, well most, Americans free health care, we have been threatened and attacked by the Teabaggers but flourished, and we were handed a bad deal by Bush but you can see how well we have done. You must be better off now than you were two years ago, because we said you are.

[hhandyman]

http://www.livestream.com/nostalgiatv/video?clipId=flv_30ccce87-4142-4ee9-a048-465a28ad7dbb&utm_source=lslibrary&utm_medium=ui-thumb this was Bush plan from the start.. ;-)

[tsigili]

My guess is we will hear a bunch of exaggerations, and / or outright lies about the state of the economy.