A good friend points me toward former Republican Charles Barkley‘s convention interview, where the basketball star shows he’s ready for his long-rumored run for the Alabama governorship:
CNN.com: What do you think the Democrats need to do here to win the White House?
Barkley: I think they’ve got to just make sure to get those troops home from Iraq, that’s a big deal. But No. 1, we’ve got to give poor people a chance. America is divided by economics, and we as Americans, we’ve got to do a better job of supporting poor people. … We’ve got to improve the public school system. If you’re born in this country poor, whether you’re white or black, you’re going to be born in a bad neighborhood; you’re going to go to a bad school. It’s going to be very difficult for poor people to be successful.
UPDATE: See Steve Benen and Think Progress for more Barkley wisdom.
–Tim Fernholz
