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all right, show time i was going to say, its going to be a hip-hop morning here. >> get it started. >> lets get it started. welcome, everybody. as i mentioned were coming to you from the diner. every morning we tell you what were eating. so im going to tell you what were eating, i got to read this one. specialty of the house. this is called the kroek and dagger, two eggs over easy with bacon or ham, sandwiched between french loaf smothered in sauce, cheese, served with home fries or gr...

Business as the back bone of the economy. i look at my company, and we do a lot of work with a lot of big companies as well. its not just small business, jj. its big business, you know. its business in general. sot key words im looking for in the fall is im looking for business friendly. im looking for people who are going to stop calling wall street bankers and financial people fat cats because theyre taking too much money and theyre the ones who are all the problem in the company. in fact, the...

are we possibly headed into further stagnation? >> well, you know, the political strategist side of things ive never had to look so much at politics to figure out where the economy was going. i tell you, its like watching the keystone cops. its gotten ridiculous. going forward we do have momentum carrying us into 2012. thats the good news. we hope we dont lose it because of political ineptitude. thats what would kill it. we have a lot of icebergs ahead. we hope politicians are better a...

Plan and figure out which one you like best, creating a new source of income for the federal government. i never thought that was a good idea. >> sean: you mean the consumption side. >> all of those issues are going to be taken apart. we have a long way to go before this campaigns overwith. we are going to talk about a lot of issues important to the people of iowa, florida, south carolina, new hampshire, all of those state its nevada, as they go forward. at the end of the day, sean, people want ...

Thats the lesson of every last election including obamas last election. >> michael moore, you say he shouldnt go for those centrist voters. >> no, no. >> the ones who see themselves as centrist. not by your definition, theirs. >> i understand. again, according to all the recent polls the majority of independents want taxes raised on the rich. the majority of independents want these wars to end. the majority of independents are actually quite liberal on these issues. i agree with mark. most ameri...

Of a back bone, who hasnt really come in there with the understanding that he had a ten million vote margin over john mccain, a mandate from the american people to get busy and do some things especially in those first two years before the republicans had the house. so i just think that thats really where the discussion should take place of getting president obama to go back to being the centrist president he ran as with the positions that he had of ending these wars, taxing the rich, and reining...

I can manage my and you are asking for more funding . that was true. obama has two wars not funded by president obama andy had has he has more in libya and on top of all of that there is not a back bone in washington d.c.. you can do the different things but you have to cut anywhere else. imagine in clinton and gingrich pass a balanced budget. the world would be better. spend money in one place but that is a lack of back bone. it is a pound of salt and potato

good morning to you. it is tuesday, august 23rd. this is "am: wake up call." im carol costello live in new york. lets get started with that big storm crashing through the atlantic ocean right now. irene is getting ever more powerful and may be heading toward the united states. people in south carolina already getting ready for irene. the hurricane is near the dominican republic right now. take a look at the storm from the international space station. irene is now a category 2 hurricane...

Folks experiencing downward mobility, and confronting the wall street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats. id like to see more of that back bone. >> you used the term black mascot. you also called barack obama a black mascot of wall street oligarchs and black puppet of wall street plutocrats and now is head of the american killing machine and is proud of it. is this personal? well its personal only to the degree to which were talking about the system in place that is rigged at the moment against ...

West recently said this. more and more working people are beaten down and they are world-weary. they are into self-medication. they are turning on each other. they are scapegoating the most vulnerable rather than confronting the most powerful. it is a profoundly human response to panic and catastrophe. i thought barack obama could have provided some way out but he lacks back bone. lets bring in the professor of african-american studies at princeton university, cornel west. great to have you on t...