Letter from Detroit: Where's the Urban President?

[onpatrol98]

President Obama has been zipping across the industrial Midwest lately, touting the budding recovery of the auto sector, and for good reason. His $50 billion investment in General Motors and Chrysler pulled them from the brink of collapse, potentially saving millions of jobs. At a GM assembly plant in Detroit last week, he test-drove Chevrolet's new battery-powered Volt (about 10 feet, after getting reluctant approval from the Secret Service) and swiftly pronounced the ride "pretty smooth." The TV cameras rolled. The crowd of autoworkers cheered, right on cue. Just like a campaign rally: everything was perfect. Except it's not. Obama, America's first urban President, was visiting his country's poorest and most populous majority-black city. But the urban crisis unraveling outside the plants wasn't on the agenda.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2008623,00.html#ixzz0vnS3biRa

[MrScorpio]

1. Everybody loves to complain about something

Nothing is ever enough when it comes to Obama.

[onpatrol98]

2. The President has spent major time in Michigan...

I was thinking...hasn't the president spent MAJOR time in Michigan. I guess I even remembering him spending time in Detroit, also. But, with so many states and so many places...how can any one place that gets as much attention as Michigan feel slighted.

Cities and towns are hurting all across America.

[MrScorpio]

3. I have pictures of him in Hart Plaza when he was campaigning

He's well loved here.

Detroit is his town, big time.

He knows where is bread is buttered.