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Wow, I can't believe it!
And would not have
believed it, had the New York Times, not reported that President Barack Obama, standing next to a
homeless man "steps from the White House in Lafayette Park" declared
that New York Police Officer Lawrence DePrimo's actions of giving boots to a
homeless man with no shoes has lead him to declare an,
"all out war on
poverty in America".
Recognizing that this war would be "unpopular in certain elite corridors of power", he called on "every
patriotic American to join him on the front lines of what is the biggest moral
and economic issue confronting America in our times"
President Obama stated, to demonstrate his
seriousness about this war on poverty, he would unveil a ten point plan in an
unprecedented address to the American Public, this Christmas at a homeless
shelter in the hills of Western Virginia, where "the ruinous clutch of
poverty inspired Senator Robert F. Kennedy to run for President".
President Obama said, nearly 40 years ago Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. understood that previous efforts to address poverty failed
because of a fundamental failure to grapple with the systematic issues of
poverty and coordinate a solution.
President Obama then read a statement aloud
made by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. when he started his "National Poor
People's Campaign" in 1967, one year before he was assassinated on a
balcony in Memphis Tennessee.
“In the treatment of poverty nationally, one
fact stands out.There are twice as many white poor as black poor in the United
States. Therefore I will not dwell on the experiences of poverty that derive
from racial discrimination, but will discuss the poverty that affects white and
black alike.”
President Obama ended this outdoor press
conference by saying,
"The action of charity by Officer Lawrence
DePrimo, no matter how noble, cannot change this country, but together we can
and we will"
Today I officially apologies for every negative
remark I made about President Obama. Clearly those people who said that Obama
would use his last term to be the candidate of change, he promised to be when
he first ran for President, were right and I was wrong.
I am thrilled to live in this amazing moment in
history.
