AP: First Lady (& former inner-city teacher) Tackles Poverty, Race Issues

[truthpusher]

I didn't know Laura was from the hood? You learn something new about this amazing women every day!

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=1144319&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

First Lady Tackles Poverty, Race Issues
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First Lady Laura Bush Urges Nation to Confront Poverty and Race 'In a Different Way'
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By JENNIFER LOVEN
The Associated Press
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Sep. 20, 2005 - Laura Bush, former inner-city teacher, says Hurricane Katrina could have a silver lining if it forces the nation to respond "in a different way" to difficult poverty and racial problems.

"A large percentage of our population probably doesn't realize what inner cities are really like and has looked away from that," Bush told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday.

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Mrs. Bush has been to the Gulf Coast four times, once alongside her husband, and has held events around Washington devoted to the hurricane response. Her husband, beset with criticism about the government's initial response to Katrina, traveled to the region for a fifth time Tuesday and is returning again this weekend.

"He has to. That's his job," Mrs. Bush said matter-of-factly. "That's what happens when you run for president. You don't know what might happen like this."

Then, in a wifely endorsement, she said, "Fortunately he is really strong and so I'm confident that he'll be able to sustain the level of attention that he'll have to and not just to that, also to the war in Iraq, to foreign policy and to all the other issues that are on the desk of the president of the United States."

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