reading michael harrington s the other america every weekend over and over again. a great book about that very world, but the show, i found it calloused and weird. romney has a history of making comments that would seem to indicate he is not very concerned about the poor. here is what he said in october to a newspaper editorial board in las vegas about the foreclosure crisis. let s watch this. don t try and stop the foreclosure process. let it run its course and hit the bottom, allow investors to buy homes, put renters in them. fix the homes up, and let it turn around and come back up. i love it. get the people out of the houses they live in and they own. they can t pay their mortgages and fix up the houses and rent them to renters. anyway, let s look. today here just today president obama responded indirectly to those comments by romney. let s listen to the president. it is wrong for anybody to suggest that the only option for struggling, responsible home owners is to sit and
reading the other america every weekend over and over again, a great book about that very world but the show, i found it calloused and weird. romney has a history of making comments that would seem to indicate he is not very concerned about the poor. here is what he said in october to a newspaper editorial board in las vegas about the foreclosure crisis. let s watch this. don t try and stop the foreclosure process. let it run its course and hit the bottom, allow investors to buy homes, put renters in them. fix the homes up, and let it turn around and come back up. i love it. get the people out of the houses they live in and they own. they can t pay their mortgages and fix up the houses and rent them to renters. anyway, let s look. today here just today president obama responded indirectly to those comments by romney. let s listen to the president. it is wrong for anybody to suggest that the only option for struggling, responsible home owners is to sit and wait for the housing m
who s the one on the big fat morning show. give up that show any day. snoop. [ shots fired ] time for tonight s rewrite. a baltimore circuit court judge today ordered actress felicia pierson held without bail on charges she conspired to deal heroin as part of a major drug distribution network targeted by city police and federal authorities. felicia pierson delivered the unforgettable performance as snoop on hbo s extraordinary series the wire. no other drama in television history has so fully embraced the challenge of exploring life in the american underclass, the poverty population, the world that michael harrington called the other america in his 1962 book that changed our understanding of america as a land of opportunity for some, but not for all.
there is no question about that. for that matter it s remote from the experiences of many people in our profession who in journalism cover these campaigns. i agree with that. the fact of the matter is most democrats also put the make their political appeals aimed at the middle class rather than the poor. poverty has not been endemmic, lasting, deep rooted poverty has not been a leading agenda item in this country for a long time. the one politician who tried to put it there recently was john edwards. perhaps not the ideal messenger in retrospect but poverty has not been on the agenda. the points that joan is making that the safety net is not some kind of hammock for most people in this country, we re far removed from that debate. it just seems strange. it is one thing not to be reading the other america every weekend over and over again, a great book about that very world but the show, i found it calloused and weird. romney has a history of making comments that would seem to