What I find most impressive about Barack Obama is his ability to speak about the Bush administration's bungling over the past eight years that so clearly outlines the need for a different approach. As I listened to his speech to the US Conference of Mayors, I found myself shocked -- dumbfounded, even -- to hear a presidential candidate speaking about urban issues in such plain and ambitious terms. That a presidential candidate would talk the talk about metropolitan- and regional-scale economics, mass transit and high-speed rail, and the specific ways that the war in Iraq hurts individual cities and neighborhoods, is almost hard to believe after eight years of secrecy, corporate carte blanche, and a complete lack of focus on anything that actually matters to peoples' day-to-day lives.
"Neglect," Obama quips, "is not a policy for America's metropolitan areas." Word.
If you like the clip above, check out the full video on the US Conference of Mayors website.
3 comments:
Great video. I really appreciate the part where Obama points out that "Cities aren't the problem... Cities are the solution." Isn't that just so true.
apparently, he will also be the mariachi president.
lol
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