Not to pile on or anything like that, but The Real News Network has another interview Obama Misses Opportunity to Address Severity of America’s Poverty in SOTU.
James Henry: Obamas State of the Union address shouldve been used to convince the public of the shared interest in solving the problem of poverty
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We know he has a hard time getting anything done in Congress, and he’s going off in the direction of trying to do executive actions unilaterally. I think it’s more important for him to actually use these opportunities to educate people about how serious a problem we’re facing.
To be fair, Obama did do some educating. You have to make some judgment about how much your audience can take. Maybe more talk about LBJ would help. The emphasis should be on how much LBJ accomplished in the War on Poverty and how much of those gains we have let erode. It’s almost like throwing the Taliban out of Afghanistan and then walking away and letting them back in.