High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2010 State of the Union Address was given by United States President Barack Obama on January 27, 2010, to a joint session of Congress. It was aired on all the major networks starting at 9 p.m. ET. It was Obama`s first State of the Union Address, though the president did give a non-State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress a month after taking office in 2009.