inequality is ‘the defining issue of our time’
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“Government can’t stand on the sidelines in our efforts, because government is us. It can and should reflect our deepest values and commitments. And if we refocus our energies on building an economy that grows for everybody and gives every child in this country a fair chance at success, then I remain confident that the future still looks brighter than the past – and that the best days for this country we love are still ahead.
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From Greg Sargent
The speech on inequality that President Obama delivered just now will mostly pass unnoticed by the political world, with Republicans dismissing it as “class warfare” and an effort to distract from Obamacare, and pundits describing it more delicately as a ”pivot” away from the law.
But experts who see inequality as one of the most urgent moral, political and economic long term challenges facing the country will see it as one of the most important speeches of the Obama presidency – more ambitious than his similar 2011 speech in Kansas.
“This is a major speech on a topic that American presidents normally stay away from,” Tim Smeeding, an expert on inequality at the University of Wisconsin, tells me, adding that it compares in some ways to Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s addresses. “The fact that a sitting president faced with a crowded agenda had the courage to discuss this overarching problem is historic.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/12/04/inequality-is-the-defining-issue-of-our-time/
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/12/04/inequality-is-the-defining-issue-of-our-time/
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thank you for posting this magnificent, "Inequality is ‘the defining issue of our time", speech of PBO's in the BOG.
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This I love...
“This is a major speech on a topic that American presidents normally stay away from,” Tim Smeeding, an expert on inequality at the University of Wisconsin, tells me, adding that it compares in some ways to Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s addresses. “The fact that a sitting president faced with a crowded agenda had the courage to discuss this overarching problem is historic.”
Our President does not shy away from anything. He is brave...he is strong and he is invincible! 
Thanks for the video and tweets~ wonderful.
Cha
"Walks the Walk" because I'd seen comments after the speech saying.. "great speech now if he'd only walk the walk" 
only the blind can't see that Cha~
BTW~ILIWIWUITMABOIP~
Best ever! 
Just a reminder Tweet from John Miller, she..
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Follow For those who complain about Obama's messaging, please note the paucity of coverage of a very important speech.7:19 AM - 4 Dec 2013
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The President Talking and Walking at the same time..
she~
I read somewhere CNN cut away from the speech.
Why oh why am I not surprised, Cha.
Great graphic! 
ILIWIWUITMABOIP~! 
They're to have glen beck and se cupp for an hour on Friday. JHC! THe corrupt mediawhores$$$$$$
ILIWIWUITMABOIP, she~! 
Perfect! Hate them!
The most trusted Faux News station. I do believe that they are giving Fox a run for their money.
It's probably to close to call~
Are you serious about a cupp-a-beck Friday or are you joshing me?
ILIWIWUITMABOIP, Cha
