What about the poor?
President Obama made history on Tuesday.
It was only the second time since Harry S. Truman’s State of the Union address in 1948 that such a speech by a Democratic president did not include a single mention of poverty or the plight of the poor.
So begins Hard-Knock (Hardly Acknowledged) Life, a column in today's New York Times by Charles Blow that grabbed my attention when I glanced at it in the middle of the night.
I got up for what I thought would be a brief moment to feed the cats shortly before 3:30. I glanced at the op ed page of the Times. I read the Blow. I could not go back to sleep.
There are political as well as moral implications in
