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Who dont understand nobody, if given the chance, would want to be born poor. >> thats right. >> nobody would. >> thats right. >> but i dont get the resentment. i do but i dont. >> well, i mean, you think of the late great john kenneth galbraithe, canadian, harvard man, but when that discipline was tied to public interest, common good, not just free markets, unregulated, unfettered or relatively regulated as if public interest is an afterthought. thats a great legacy connected to harvard in that ...

The human inclination. >> martin king used to call for dangerous unselfishness. and that has to do with public service. think of those in the military when they are doing the right thing, they are doing, what, a dangerous unselfishness in the public interest. when youre fighting for the poor and working people in the face of indifference, complacency, calling for fundamental fairness, thats a dangerous unselfishness too. but in the end, poverty is a moral and political issue as well. what kind o...

Somebody point this out to me, not since 1948 arguably, has any sitting president run on a promise to raise taxes. >> any sitting president that is probably right. >> sort of stunning, but we are in a different place. >> we are in a different place. you know, the framing of this election, the 99 versus the 1, now part of the political lexicon, has helped to shift the aspects of this debate and i think that that gives the president some confidence that you can make the argument that people at the...

Away your guns yet. dont you see -- ah! this conspiracy theory thing is weird enough, but now also prevalent enough that it has been subject to the highest order of mockery on comedy centrals "the daily show with jon stewart." >> everything obamas done in his first term is just a canard, so that he can do the opposite in his second term? obama deported more illegal immigrants per year than president bush did. so that the illegal immigrants could rest up in their native land for the second term i...

Obama is going to take away your guns is that he hasnt taken away your guns yet. dont you see -- ah! this conspiracy theory thing is weird enough, but now also prevalent enough that it has been subject to the highest order of mockery on comedy centrals "the daily show with jon stewart." >> everything obamas done in his first term is just a canard, so that he can do the opposite in his second term? obama deported more illegal immigrants per year than president bush did. so that the illegal immigr...

>> thats my point. >> transvaginal ultrasound -- >> thats the flipside problem with the show. you can look at it and think that women have come much farther than they, in fact, have, and it can lead to a kind of complacency around feminist politics. its a very double-edged sword. >> thats fascinating. it doesnt look like that anymore, so we forget whats happening in this moment can have equal oppression. >> i think thats true. i think my students in my class, teaching women and relinlon and they...

Re-elect from 2004. two explanations given. one was some wall street donors that are not there this time. maybe they dont like the president as much. but the second one was this complacency. somehow theres a bunch of your supporters, big donors, who just arent impressed with romney or santorum and think you dont need the money. are you worried about complacency? >> well, im always worry about complacency. were not really running against romney or santorum. were running against the environme envi...

>> well, those are the indications right now. well see how this thing unfolds. what i do know and as i said before is that organizationally in terms of volunteers supporting activity around the country, im really pleased with what i see. people are -- are very much engaged, talking to their neighbors. talking to their friends. talking on the social media to each other. on behalf of the presidents campaign. i believe were going to have a very, very strong organizational effort in the fall. so wha...

Lets bring back our panel. a very lively discussion about the republican campaign. president obama spent all day on friday raising money. understandable. they have been behind financially just a little bit, and they admit it started with debt ceiling. the they had to cancel 30 fund-raisers between july and august and it doesnt look like theyve ever caught up. now were seeing some interesting analysis with a big donor problem. >> the small dough authors arent at the level they were in 2008 either...

afghans want him tried in their country but the ambassador to the u.s. says his government trusts the american investigation. and the worlds most valuable public corporation now wants to share its wealth. some of it anyway. apple just announced a quarterly dividend of $2.65 a share beginning sometime this summer. it also plans to buy back $10 billion worth of shares over the next three years. together those -- that outlay rather costs 45 billion or as apple might think of it pretty m...