President-elect Barack Obama jumps into the fray immediately pushing Dubya to push for assistance to the auto industry, and make it a priority, and I like that.  Black Enterprise reports that this was one of the many things they talked about when they met, and it makes sense to me. I think the economy has to be fixed from the ground up, and we need to start with fixing it so people can find themselves a good paying job with benefits. “Automobile manufacturing as a whole provides about 20% of country’s revenue and it’s a key incubator for employment in U.S.” says Damon Lester, president of the National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers. I got eyes—I didn’t need him to tell me that.

There used to be a time when you could have just a high school diploma and be able to find work at the Ford or GM plant. My people, like a lot of your folks, worked for a car and truck manufacturer. And I know generations of folks who worked for auto plants but now routinely get laid off or fired. Time to stabilize the base I say. The automakers are riding on fumes and the least the Bush administration could do is help Obama get a running start by doing anything they can by forking over some federal money so they can stay in motion. What do you think?

Do you know anyone who has been affected by the automaker crunch? What should Obama do to fix it?

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President-elect Barack Obama and outgoing president George W. Bush met at the White House yesterday, and you know they didn’t talk sports. For Obama, it must be hard to come face to face with someone you have so roundly criticized but everyone’s taken shots at Bush, and my guess he’s just as happy to vacate the hot-seat as Obama is to take it. Their meeting was ‘off the record,’ meaning we don’t know exactly what they talked about, but there are no reports of headlocks or broken jaws, so we can probably guess it went as well as could be expected.

Like most people, I’m curious as to what they talked about—for Obama, the presidency is akin to taking a used car off somebody’s hands you know has all kinds of problems. There is a lot of talk afoot about Obama immediately rolling back some Bush policies. It’s hard to stop momentum, good or bad, once it’s started but God Bless him for trying, right?

We know that they did talk about what it would take to save the auto industry, and that’s all we know. I want to know if they talked about foreclosures, healthcare and practical matters about raising children in the White House. We know that Laura Bush and Michelle Obama had that conversation, but it seems like, dad to dad, Bush and Obama should have that talk, too. I think it’s a shame that we know so little of the First Meeting. What do you think?

What do you think Bush and Obama talked about?  What should they have talked about?

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