loan to and who you can t loan to, never mind the fact that you ve known them for 20, 30, 40 years, generation after generation, we re going to control this from washington. this president talks about his financial reform bill going after wall street. actually the folks on wall street backed it. . what it ended up doing is hurting the folks that had nothing to do with the financial collapse in the first place. smalltown community banks got the brunt of a lot of this because the big banks can afford it, the small banks cannot. what the president s bill did, it ignored fannie mae and familiar, the problems and then it went after banks, made wall street happy in many ways, many of them got on board and endorsed it and who took the burden? smalltown banks. and i yield back. mr. griffith: main street didn t back it and main street had problems. and i know personally about this because as a young lawyer right out of law school, i took risks and i went to the bank and they didn t wo
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john f. kennedy. you are a fourth grade teacher, what do your students think makes a good president? well, my students would say no school. i would say a strong sense of leadership honesty in connection with people. now when what they want and representing what this country is about fighting for our rights and making sure we are heard. can you give me an example of how the president could show those traits? for example, honesty. getting on national television and sharing with us where the world is where political viewpoints are for real not just the political party. i would appreciate more of that. who you think has been successful in doing that? gosh, not a lot of people. there is a lot of flip-floping going around. integrity is one quality you need. great leadership skills. also probably, honesty. i think being honest is another quality you need in a good president. we are hearing honesty as one of the top things. how can the president show that to the ameri
remember, they are fellow human beings caught in a system and a pattern and a culture. they re not lost souls never to be found. they are to be your community in a way if you treat them in a way that invites them. the faith and politics institute has carried members to alabama and walked through the history of the civil-rights movement in birmingham, montgomery, and some elma with john lewis leading us. we have carried 120 members of congress over the years. the first time we went, george wallace was still alive. and he was it was the last year of his life. he was in his house. she was in rough shape. the congressional delegation went to see him. he was in rough shape. john lewis and earl hilliard walked right in and were comfortable as could be. i remember a couple of our white, midwestern and liberal members standing at the edge of the door not knowing whether they wanted to walk in that room or not, because something was really bad. george wallace received them with