August 18, 2008
How About the Home Front?
Barack Obama and John McCain have found plenty of time to talk about foreign policy, but New York Times‘ columnist Bob Herbert — along with a handful of city mayors — has noticed that urban policy and infrastructure investments have been conspicuously left out of the conversation.
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August 19th, 2008 12:11 pm
The assertion that Barack Obama does not have and has not asserted an urban policy is simply not true. A very comprehensive set of policies advocated by Senator Obama is easy for anyone to find. Just go to barackobama.com and look for Issues/Urban Policy. http://www.barackobama.com/issues/urbanpolicy/
Bob Herbert’s complaint, along with the mayors (and yours) is better aimed at the media or the numerous debate moderators.
Given Senator Obama’s hands-on, day to day work on the South Side of Chicago as a community organizer, I’m sure urban policy is a subject he would like to debate with anyone anytime. No one has to school him in this subject. He has lived and breathed it. It’s just a shame he gets so few opportunities to do so and that when he does, it gets so little coverage.
Ask him about it, and he will extemporaneously answer with an absolutely on-point discussion of why we need to change the way we use land, invest in transit and rail, change the incentives for companies to keep jobs in America, make work pay, protect existing neighborhoods and keep them safe. In fact, I can’t imagine that you would disagree with any of it .