Common Sense or Class Warfare?

President Obama sounded many of the right notes during Tuesday's State of the Union speech, but continued economic uncertainty and political deadlock has many in the tech industry skeptical of any plans coming out of Washington.

President Obama on Tuesday called on Congress to work with him to advance his policy agenda. But were they with him? Several times the president brought members from both sides of the aisle to their feet to applaud his mission.

President Obama, far from delivering the State of the Union, instead kick-started his reelection campaign on Tuesday, said Republican presidential contender Rick Santorum, who had harsh words for the president. 

President Obama is concerned only about staying in power and keeping money out of the hands of people responsible for jump-starting the economy, Newt Gingrich said in a statement on Tuesday night in reply to the State of the Union. 

Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, in the GOP response to President Obama's State of the Union address, said Republican policies will do more to help the middle-class, poor, and unemployed than those proposed by the administration.

Calling for a post-war era of unity and selflessness reportedly not seen since the wake of World War II, President Obama led and closed his State of the Union address with an invocation of the impressive list of national security accomplishments under his watch in the past year.

Touting his administration’s “bet on American workers” and nourishment of the domestic auto industry through the Detroit bailout, President Obama early in his State of the Union address on Tuesday night cited cities struggling with post-industrial changes.

In an address that barely mentions health care, President Obama hits on the message heard repeatedly from the health care industry: If you want more jobs, don’t cut off federal funding.

President Obama’s State of the Union proposal to boost new natural-gas drilling on land and increase oil-and-gas drilling offshore will advance a number of his political and policy goals at once.

Revisiting his call from last year for more American innovation and better education, President Obama said on Tuesday that such an America is within reach.