Progressive: Hated the State of the Union

Mtthew Rothschild

Progressive - I hated Obama’s State of the Union address. He opened with a discussion of the Tucson shooting, but as my colleague Ruth Conniff has noted, he failed to make the obvious point that we need better gun control in this country. And if he can’t make the case for that when a member of the House is in rehab after being shot through the head, when will he ever be able to do it? He said that “each of us deserves the chance to shape our destiny,” but he didn’t once talk about poverty, which is on the rise and which greatly limits the chances of millions of Americans to reach their destiny. Read full column here:

Progressive: Hated the State of the Union