State of the Union 2014: Obama to take ‘optimistic’ message on the road

State of the Union 2014: Obama to take ‘optimistic’ message on the road-politico: President Barack Obama will deliver an “optimistic” State of the Union address Tuesday prodding Congress to address economic mobility and income inequality — or risk an end-run by the White House. In an email to supporters Saturday, senior White House adviser Dan Pfeiffer wrote that Obama “will lay out a set of real, concrete, practical proposals to grow the economy, strengthen the middle class, and empower all who hope to join it.”