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the foremost political commentator of this age has dared speak the obvious. so much for that liberal media, unwilling to ask its own the tough questions:
Moyers: Obama ‘should know better’ than to ignore poverty | The Raw Story
Moyers: Obama ‘should know better’ than to ignore poverty | The Raw Story
Journalist Bill Moyers expressed concern in a video essay published Friday over President Barack Obama, a former community organizer, and his lack of devotion to poverty since he’s entered the Oval Office.“It’s just astonishing to us how long this campaign has gone on with no discussion of what’s happening to poor people,” Moyers said. “Official Washington continues to see poverty with tunnel vision — ‘out of sight, out of mind.’”
He said this critique is not just of fat-cat Republicans and their disproportionate attention to millionaires and billionaires. Obama himself is just as guilty, even though he of all people, “should know better.” ...
“Oddly, though, for all his rhetorical skills, Obama hasn’t made a single speech devoted to poverty since he moved into the White House,” Moyers pointed out. “In the last three years, only $40 million have been spent with another $60 million scheduled for local community grants.” ...