and thanks to all of you for getting up way too early with us on this tuesday morning. morning joe starts right now. the media suggests they are not paying attention to the concerns of every day voters. you want to sweep it under the rugment i don t want to talk about this any more than anyone else. when the barbarians were at the gate, you were happy to let them in. they were people that behaved badly on that day. i m not one of them. ms. abrams is going to lie about my record because she doesn t want to talk about her own. i don t have the luxury of being part of a good old boys club. debate night in ohio, utah, and georgia with the midterms exactly three weeks away, things are getting a little heated. steve kornacki is standing by at the big board. did you see that guy beforehand, he s going into the whole rage thing. out of hand. this guy s crazy. the state of the race, which is what we really want from him. republicans claim to care so much ab
his parents religious background. he was not a convention gnat christian at all. he was more of kind of a unitarian guy with a tragic sensibility. but he believed that as theodore parker said, the abolitionist minister, the arc is long but bends toward justice. he also knew it doesn t bend toward justice if people aren t insisting that it swerve toward justice. there are always going to be forces of reaction pulling the other way, and that conscientious insight, the capacity to bring conscience to bear on political, economic, cultural issues of contention. that s where american greatness comes. it s where human greatness comes. and i m not mindlessly celebrating this guy at all. i don t think we should look up at him adoringly or down on him