WASHINGTON -- White House hopeful Barack Obama (D-Ill.) unveiled his $6 billion plan to combat urban poverty, at an interesting facility in the Anacostia neighborhood providing a variety of programs -- culture-social-health -- to the "underserved" in the nations' capital.
At the Town Hall Education, Arts & Recreation Campus, Obama invoked another charismatic political figure, Bobby Kennedy, is asking how poverty can still be tolerated in a nation as rich as America. Campaign spokesman Robert Gibbs said the cost estimate of the package of programs Obama is proposing totals $6 billion. Obama stakes some ground on urban poverty as rival former Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.) winds up his poverty tour, with poverty Edwards signature campaign issue.
Obama did not mention Edwards by name, but he did take this swipe when he said, "This kind of poverty is not an issue I just discovered for the purposes of a campaign. It is the cause that led me to a life of public service almost 25 years ago.''
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