I thought President Obama did a beautiful job in this speech yesterday. He showed some fight. He needs to.
Oh yeah. Here is my op-ed about Chicago’s economic challenges in the New York Times. I interviewed Rev. Jesse Jackson, among others. A little excerpt:
[Jackson] had choice words for banks and for Tea Partiers, whom he called “kamikaze zealots.” His bluntness is jarring. National politicians don’t talk like that.
Maybe they should. Mr. Jackson brings an urgency, an identification with struggling people that is otherwise lacking…. Lambasting the debt ceiling agreement, he said: “They’ll raise the roof, but the cracks in the floor will go unrepaired.”
[Cross-posted at The Reality-Based Community]
