The Urban President (not that there’s anything wrong with that!)

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Obama will be first President since Teddy Roosevelt who's spent his entire life in large cities:

"If you don't live in a city, you look at them like they're basket cases," says Amy Liu, deputy director of the Brooking Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program. "But Obama doesn't talk about urban policy in the traditional sense of distressed neighborhoods and crime. He talks about the assets he sees and about leveraging those assets."

Posted by brandonb at 7:30 AM on January 14th 2009

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Posted by nax at 10:42 AM on Jan 14th

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Posted by brandonb at 10:56 AM on Jan 14th

The realization that he's more urban based struck as Palin came up in the news again, reminding me of the "small town America is the REAL America" garbage. I like the idea of leveraging the larger cities and their assets, hopefully to drive some industries.

That and it's just another refutation of what the Republicans think America is.

Posted by brandonb at 10:59 AM on Jan 14th

Not only that, he's the first President since Truman, as far as my kids and I have been able to tell, who has been living as a prominent adult in a "neighborhood"-- a regular house* next door to other people-- and not a remote farm, compound or ranch (not sure about Ford, but he'd be the only exception). So this is also someone who has been living "at ground level" so to speak. You're not going to be seeing any confusion over grocery store scanners from this guy.

*I know, Obama's house is huge, but in that neighborhood, it's still pretty "regular."

Posted by nax at 2:08 PM on Jan 14th

You mean cities can be something other than cesspools of crime and pornography and bears?

Posted by ratslet at 12:48 PM on Jan 15th

Don't be ridiculous. That's why I like living in the city.

Posted by nax at 1:53 PM on Jan 15th

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