State of the union

• President Barack Obama says the state of the union is getting stronger, and he says the country has come too far to turn back now.
(msnbc.com)
• President Barack Obama will deliver this years State of the Union speech to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night.
(Huffington Post)
• (CNN)-- Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels is to give the Republican Party response to the State of the Union speech on Tuesday night. Below is a transcript of the speech, as prepared for delivery.
(CNN)
• A year ago, after the last State of the Union address, we applauded President Obama for challenging the Republicans' blame government, slash-and-burn rhetoric.
(New York Times)
• The secretary for one of the worlds wealthiest men and the wife of late Apple cofounder Steve Jobs are among those invited by the White House to attend the State of the Union address.
(AP - msnbc.com)
• President Obama's third State of the Union address was, as expected, a transparently partisan kick-off speech for his 2012 election campaign. The president began shamelessly by hyping the complete withdrawal of all troops from Iraq.
(Washington Post)
• Everybody's got a response to the State of the Union these days — including Occupy Wall Street. Or at least a branch of Occupiers in D.C. do. They were supposed to deliver it live post-State of the Union in McPherson Square in Washington.
(San Francisco Gate)
• We can either settle for a country where a shrinking number of people do really well, while a growing number of Americans barely get by.
(USA Today)
• President Barack Obama tonight presented an argument for his presidency and a second term with a State of the Union address that outlined a sweeping vision for American exceptionalism sustained by an economy rooted in fairness.
(ABC News)