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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (82147)	9/6/2010 5:30:35 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Respond to of 149317

There are things with Obama, more when he was a new candidate, that suggest not so much focusing on urban, but being familiar with that and not 'grasping' the other. but I think he's grown out of that a lot. he's pushed broadband service, which is a big deal. I've studied maps again lately because I when I pick a spot to live, I want fast access, and there are big dead zones across the country, and that limits new biz, even small ones, starting up and choosing a town to be in... and when Michelle does her food thing, she talks rural also, aware that food deserts are an urban and rural problem... that health issues from being overweight are an urban and rural issue. I think it is a think with Dems that as Repubs talk of Rural Real America and see that as white (cause they are talking midwest and stuff, not south where we are quite mixed in color), the dems tend, imo, to equate black=urban. seriously, seems they forget blacks are still in the south and a lot of them are rural. there are lots of professional blacks all over the south, espeically in Atlanta. but hear tell from dems, in my hearing, it seems that they all live in urban northeast and California. that leaves blind spots in focusing and managing programs that build the country at large. but I've seen a lot of the stimulis at work here. at work helping our schools stay open with enough teachers. with buildings going up. needed roads being built. There's plenty to toot the horn about. And more to be done, for sure. something to excite the young, and us oldsters not too jaded, like high speed rail, no broadband deadzones when they travel and move around, college that doesn't leave you forever in debt or looking at being 40 before you can get a starter home.