Senator Obama visited Macomb County, Michigan this morning to unveil his manufacturing agenda. Among other measures, Obama’s plan will create a $50 billion Clean Technologies Deployment Venture Capital Fund, promote advanced vehicle technology and incentivize production of fuel-efficient vehicles, convert manufacturing centers into clean technology leaders, and create a $60 billion infrastructure fund to rebuild our highways, bridges, ports, and transit systems.Prior to the event, Obama toured the Chrysler Stamping Plant in Sterling Heights, MI and met with workers there:
He was introduced before his speech at Macomb Community College by Roy Gross, a 48-year-old truck driver who transports new cars to the showroom. Barack explained:
It’s time to recapture the spirit of innovation that has always fueled America’s economic success. It’s time we had an economy that was driven not just by foreign debt, but by the power of America’s imagination. It’s time to tap the ingenuity of engineers and entrepreneurs, policy experts and working folks to meet the challenges of our time. That’s what this election is all about. So while this is a moment of challenge, it’s also a moment of opportunity. And the question you’ll face in November is which candidate can lead America to seize it.
Read the full text of Barack's remarks, as prepared for delivery . . .
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The presidency has a teaching function to it. Good presidents have to explain things. One of Bush's failings is that as firm as he is in his beliefs, although that's also a good quality, he doesn't think he has to explain anything to anybody, and God knows we need a good teacher now.
