Nothing pains me more than to agree with the conservative editor of The National Review, Rich Lowry, but today I must concede.
Lowry is spot on in his assessment of Detroit's numerous maladies, (The Oregonian, Apr. 2) not the least of which is having a lying, conniving mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick.
But I must take issue with one point. Lowry states that part of the problem with Detroit's decline is the "failure of urban liberalism." Huh?
Any chance to poke at being liberal, Lowry never misses but here it has nothing to do with Detroit. Forbes magazine recently declared Detroit, "America's Most Miserable City" and as a former resident, I can assure Lowry, liberalism is ha-ha-hardly Detroit's real problem.
His truest statement: "Downtown Detroit has been revitalized but all around it, THE CITY ROTS!"
