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President. there are too many traps in modern american poverty, and too many complexities to the socioeconomic dynamics that produce our presidents, to allow us to say, without reservation, that this really is the country where anyone can grow up to be president. but throughout our history, we ve been moving ever closer to that ideal. anyone can grow up to be president. we took a giant step closer to that ideal with our election of the first african-american president. we knew then that one of the nongovernmentelal benefits of his election was that black children and other children would be able to see new possibilities in their lives more clearly. i know that feeling. i remember that feeling of the suddenly expanded universe of possibility. i was one of those little boston irish catholic boys about the age of kid president when i watched john fitzgerald-kennedy take the oath of office as the ....
An african-american president was no longer a dream. it was an ever-expanding political reality, as soon as barack obama completed that convention keynote address. and now the white house that was built by slaves is home to descendents of slaves. the american myth has always been that anyone can grow up to be president. that was our mythology back when slavery was still legal. that was our mythology when women still didn t have the right to vote. we still have never had a woman president, but our mythology remains that anyone can grow up to be president. we still have never had a jewish president. there are too many traps in modern american poverty, and too many complexities to the socioeconomic dynamics that produce our presidents, to allow us to say, without reservation, that this really is the country where anyone can grow up to be president. but throughout our history, we ve been moving ever closer to that ideal. anyone can grow up to be president. ....
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Joke that says how can you tell when a politician is lying? the answer is you can tell he s lying because his lips are moving. i like to think there s a corollary. how do you tell someone s a politician? because they keep talking about the middle class. the middle class needs our help. so what happened to the middle class? they lost their jobs. they lost their houses. the middle class has been chipped at, squeezed and hammered for an entire generation now. they re trying to raise taxes on middle class. washington is hanging the middle class out to dry. the middle class, it s the foundation of our political conversation. it s the one safe thing politicians can talk about. mom, apple pie and saving the middle class. far fewer people are willing to talk about american poverty. not the unemployed, not folks who are down on their luck, but the poor. we don t really talk about the poor in this country. in very official terms, u.s. economy flipped into a recession at the end of tw ....
9.9% for white americans. yep. so poverty is an overwhelming problem. obviously the recession has driven more people into poverty. but for minority communities, general powell, and that affects every schoolchild in america. it does. and that s why i think getting our economy moving again and getting the unemployment rate down is so vitally important. we need a strong economy not just to allow our children to have more hope in their lives, because their parents have jobs, but in order for america to remain viable in the world community, which is increasingly being driven by economic issues, not political issues or issues of war and peace. it s issues of who is creating wealth or who is not. in poverty, all sorts of bad things start to happen in that home and community. and the minority communities in america are bearing a greater burden of our unemployment and economic distress. and mrs. powell, one of the teachers who spoke to brian williams in our town hall meeting, teacher to ....