Unless one makes magnificent profits from banks, fossil fuels or the government one cannot see how Mr. Obama is wrong.

This is not good journalism. It is biased reporting, from a man with a lliberal reputation. While the New York Times has published some excellent stories during its lifetime, this is a piece of biased journalism that was geared to make Barack Obama acceptable to the Middle Class. The facts are that Obama gave away untold billions of dollars to his banker friends after the 2008 economic meltdown -- billions that did not reach the poor or the middle class. And his banker pals used the money to retire bad loans that they had made to people who could not qualify for loans. Poor biased reporting to build up a President's besmirched reputation is not good journalism in my book.

Although this is a thorough, well-constructed story, the author doesn't get around to addressing what the crowd thought of the speech until the end and, even then, only quotes a single audience member. Getting more perspective from the audience and spending a little less time on the political implications of the speech would've improved the story. Besides the audience member quoted at the end of the story and one brief quote from Mitt Romney, Obama's speech is the only source of quotes in the story. Thus, while the story itself is a perfectly fine summary of the content of Obama's speech, the headline "Obama Strikes Populist Chord With Speech in Kansas" is not put into any context besides the author's own analysis. At the ... More »