As many of you know, I'm a former Edwards supporter who now supports Senator Obama. While I strongly support Obama, I want more courage than what I just saw in his 60 minutes interview with Steve Croft.
Croft was in Ohio where he talked to a group of citizens in Chillicothe, a rural community that used to be a major manufacturing hub. Most of the group used to have good, secure, blue collar jobs until their own government sacrificed their well being at the altar of free trade. One man, who can't afford health care, has a wife with MS and hasn't had a good paying job since a local paper company relocated to China.
While their stories brought me to tears, the most important part of Kroft's piece was when he interviewed a socially responsible CEO of one of the few reamining paper companies in Chillicothe. When Kroft asked him about what Obama or Hillary could do to reverse the trend of job loss, he said "couragous action needs to be taken" and even brought up the "t" word..tariffs.
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