Barack Obama on the "Middle Class Squeeze"

Barack Obama gave a very serious and powerful speech about the country's dire economic problems in Powder Springs, GA today.

As always, when Sen. Obama talks about the economy, he doesn't talk about juiced job numbers and unrealistic inflation figures. Obama talks about the suffering of real people.

As grim as his speech sounded, it is refreshing to hear a politician—a presidential candidate, even—speak about the economy in the way that real Americans see it and are affected by it. I have seen too many politicians give speeches that sound like they were reading from a blotter of statistics. Many others sound like corporate prospectuses. Numbers don't suffer, indexes don't suffer, people suffer—Obama gets that.

The one thing I like the most about Sen. Obama, he's not about Wall Street or Easy Street, he's about Main Street.

It's a 21 minute video, but worth the time to watch.