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President loses his support is a three tiered process. first people say they disagree with him on an issue, like obama care or stimulus spending. then the second thing is that they say i generally dont approve of the work he is doing. lack of approval. the third step is they assign to him character flaws. in bushs case 43, it was lack of intellect or stubbornness. in bush 41 it was being out of touch and being elitist. in clintons case it was lack of morality and lack of leadership. in obamas ca...

President loses his support is a three tiered process. first people say they disagree with him on an issue, like obama care or stimulus spending. then the second thing is that they say i generally dont approve of the work he is doing. lack of approval. the third step is they assign to him character flaws. in bushs case 43, it was lack of intellect or stubbornness. in bush 41 it was being out of touch and being elitist. in clintons case it was lack of morality and lack of leadership. in obamas ca...

>> cornell, it was katrina and the competence question that undermined president bush during the end of his term. does this president face a similar credibility competence test? >> i think every president does. look when you get inside the polling. tell you a nasty secret, there are character traits more important than others. republicans have known this for years. character trait, strength and toughness. they want to see the president is tough, strong, decisive, it carried george bush, they saw...

Some of the less generous of our community to act bigger than they were. it was remarkable to watch. people say and we all have our theories why teddy was so successful as a legislator. one of them was people didnt want to look small in front of him, even the people who were small. the astounding thing to me after 36 years having the consequences of, as my mother would say, living long, ive gotten to meet almost every major political figure in the world. thats not hyperbole, its literally true. ...

He said when i was young and stupid i was young and stud pid and i apologize. he says i was always a boy scout. i was always a champion of women.oy thats not true. maybe he has grown up in the manner in which he treats women. theres nothing like children and girls to teach you that, right? y we have kids. lying about the documents that he did receive as a political operative, thats character trait. >> your former organization sure has been part of the conversation and im curious with an fbi vete...

Against richard nixon. >> exactly. richard nixon was not -- they didnt have it in the impeachment papers against nixon because lying is bad but because by lying about the specific things he was lying about, he was trying to cover up existence of a crime that he knew had happened. >> yes. >> and that was in the minds of the people that voted for those articles of impeachment, that was a criminal matter, not just a bad character trait. >> thank you, rachel. >> thanks, lawrence. good luck, my frien...

Mind. >> stuff like this found its way into a bill of impeachment against richard nixon. >> exactly. richard nixon was not -- they didnt have it in the impeachment papers against nixon because lying is bad but because by lying about the specific things he was lying about, he was trying to cover up existence of a crime that he knew had happened. >> yes. >> and that was in the minds of the people that voted for those articles of impeachment, that was a criminal matter, not just a bad character tra...

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Racist. >> its not just the comments. if you had opening in your show you had a long list of actions and things he has said in his private and political life and as president and that adds up to a character trait. and a characteristic in his as a human being. >> d.r.e.a.m.e.r.ers, what hes this going to do for the immigration debate? >> on that question is the white house concern about the immigration debate? i spoke with one white house source who said listen, acknowledging this is not helpful ...

Rather than approaching the president he has, i would say, extreme chutzpah, and thats not what you should have as a prime minister of the nation who needs the united states as its friend and ally and its almost like all right, youve helped me so much and youve helped me now but now youre going out of office and i dont need to be friends with you anymore. its a bad character trait on the part of the pri minisr to be treating president obama this way and its a bad character trait to be treating t...