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Is another story. i know the republicans want to say, we were coming into office. i think what certainly happened is the obama administration has taken a definitive turn or step toward the center when it comes to competitiveness, when it comes to growth, and when it comes to a focus on jobs. >> yes, failure is an orphan, steve. what can the president -- >> reporter: i was going to use a tougher word, but we want to keep my job. >> its early. what can the president say tonight that can could ace ...

Because he said i dont believe in peaceful protests. if someone comes after me as a racist, im going to fight them. >> thats right. i remember very well my mother and father talking. i was a little girl standing out in the hallway. he said, angelina, theyre telling us we should go out there and be nonviolent but if somebodys going to come after me with a billy club, im going to try to kill them, and my daughters going to be an orphan, so im not going out there. my father was a big man, a very ph...

Make to claim credit for recovery, knock on wood, hoping it continues, whether they are talking about reagan or clinton, if the economy is doing badly the president takes the claim, if it does well the president get it is credit. the public does that regardless of the hot air in washington. >> is it possible that both sides can benefit? jack kennedy said victory has a hundred fathers, defeat is an orphan. if the economy produces enough growth to reduce the unemployment rate below 8% could we not...

>> whatever efforts republicans make to claim credit for recovery, knock on wood, hoping it continues, whether they are talking about reagan or clinton, if the economy is doing badly the president takes the claim, if it does well the president get it is credit. the public does that regardless of the hot air in washington. >> is it possible that both sides can benefit? jack kennedy said victory has a hundred fathers, defeat is an orphan. if the economy produces enough growth to reduce the unemplo...

He is dead but screw him again, all this stuff about going after people. caught one live one, alger hiss s but did huac hearings and trying to catch communists in the movie industry and so forth and the end of the two years, harry truman said it well, do nothing. did nothing and they got blown out of there. >> thats right. this is the thing about whatever efforts republicans make to try to claim effort for, recovery, knock on wood, hoping it continues, that what they are talking about ronald rea...

Were back with "sgmd." here is a statistic for you. about one in two americans actually gave money to help the relief efforts in haiti, about $5 billion around the world to try and help the million people who are homeless and 350,000 orphans still living in haiti today. yet, there are children who are still starving and so malnourished, they are in search of medical treatment. what happened to all that money? im going to show you what a few dollars can do. we saw it with our own eyes, thanks to ...

Going to die while everybody waits. >> we start walking back towards the orphanage, were walking up, and the kids are outside. and the kids were crying. they were praying. they were shaking. we werent sure if they were okay or not. i didnt see cendy at that point. >> when the earthquake hit, cendy jeune was 6 years old. a child caught in the chaos of enormous disaster, an orphan swept up in a catastrophe. she had spent most of her young life at the orphanage, la maison de lumiere, the lighthouse...

Dinner and otherwise enjoy herself is in washington. i hope she and the family will do that after this very touching ceremony. vernon baker was an orphan, and grew up in father flanagans boys town and grew up in a segregated america. he volunteered for the military even though he wasnt eligible as an african-american to serve and was in the first segregated combat unit to see duty in world war ii. so its a very appropriate that we recognize his sacrifice and his leadership in helping us put disc...

August 31st. 2010, americas combat mission in iraq would end. that is exactly what were doing, as promised and on schedule. >> jon: the president says americas commitment in iraq is changing from a military to civilian effort. even as he acknowledges militants are still trying to derail iraqs progress. wendell goler is live on the north lawn. he has more for us. wendell? >> jon, they say success has a thousand fathers and failure is an orphan. probably a measure of success in iraq that both repu...

Nonorphans, the construction team goes back and finds the orphans werent orphans because the afghan define an orphan as someone whose father is gone. they have a mother but we spend in some cases million dollars of dollars on projects only to find out the money is wasted, stolen, misused. i saw that again and again in iraq and it raises so many questions about what weve been doing with our hard-earned taxpayer money in places like iraq and afghanistan. >> shepard: you wonder what it is to make u...