Columbia Mayor Praises Obama's Leadership
Steve Benjamin responds to Tuesday night's State of the Union address.
The State of the Union address receives more responses than it does standing ovations and Columbia's mayor followed the trend.
Mayor Steve Benjamin issued his response to President Obama's speech in a press release circulated by the White House Press Secretary.
"Too often our political debate is dominated by those who score cheap points by endorsing greed and demonizing public service," Benjamin said. "President Obama offers a way forward that creates jobs, rebuilds our infrastructure and restores our middle-class values of fairness and responsibility."
Divisiveness in government brought the country to the brink of collpase, Benjamin said, but Obama's leadership can be a force in turning it around.
"The President stood up for every hard working American family fighting for a chance to live the American Dream," Benjamin said.
"He reminded us that ours is not a country of trickle down profits and dividend payments, but a nation of, by and for the people where everyone does their fair share, everyone plays by the same rules and everyone has an opportunity to get ahead if they try."
Read the full transcript of the State of the Union address here.
lib
12:33 pm on Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Of course, black will support black
YMGONETOFAR
1:29 pm on Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Let's look at what he actually said. "Too often our political debate is dominated by those who score cheap points by endorsing greed and demonizing public service," Benjamin said. So in essence people who have worked hard and built companies based on SMART ecoconomic plans are evil while LARGE overburdened government welfare programs should be applauded. Big Business isn't the problem with our economy it's over regulation and tieing hands of these companies to effectively produce and grow in the US.
Lum Michael Patterson
1:58 pm on Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Another year of he says, I say. There will never be any meaningful dialog between political factions made up of career politicians because they do not care one iota about the people they 'serve'. They care about keeping their jobs, about power, and fame. Mostly they care about MONEY. One thing Obama said that I thoroughly agree with is "it's time to change the way things are done in Washington.” Problem is there is only one-way to break up the 24/7/365 melee that is our central governing body and that is to use our votes to set term limits by removing all incumbents from office. The time has come for us to take back our government. There is only one hurdle we have to overcome and that is to put aside our differences and with one voice shout out to the career politicians we are not going to take it anymore If we the people don’t take a stand it will continue to be same ole, same ole.
George Grace
3:37 pm on Thursday, January 26, 2012
Mayor Benjamin is right on in his comments. Thanks Mayor, you're right!