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All sports. hes still going to be beneficial for democrats when he did not do that in 2012. so theyre going to need him for that. >> it does go back to the idea of the presidential having a party the day after st. patricks day. there are obama democrats and they show up to where it usually stays a political conversation, its tough for the white house as it was in 06, there are policy consequences. he was nominated back in november, he had his -- republicans oppose him. again, look at the senate ...

He paused for a moment and looked at me and said, wes, they get it through their mothers milk. so we just used the phrase, language of disgust. obviously, theres a cultural disgust. and in the south, i think this hatred, this disgust, this disdain for blackness comes through their mothers milk. its in the air, its in the apples that they eat, its in the tobacco that they plant. it is a profound disgust. so the question of interracial marriage a boo-boo, it just doesnt happen. its impossible. its...

We heard lots of, as horrible as katrina was, when theyre in the bush white house at that moment, they were hearing theyre shooting people in the superdome and so on. he says you have to be cautious and not assume that every horror story you hear is actually coming true. this could be fixed in a few weeks. i think the danger here is that the system, the entire architecture of the health care reform, is built around getting a certain number of people, a certain number usually of young, healthy pe...

I do think there is a way that kind of narratives of disaster do get caught up into the media universe, and ezra, particularly because so few people interface with actually the thing, itself, is does seem to me it would be possible that a media narrative of disaster does get created even embedded by people who actively want to see the thing fail to point you do create political, real political backlash that then does have policy consequences because people then in washington are trying to fix so...

Be. it wont be about the political conversation. >> that i somewhat agree with which was the point i was trying to make it avik. let. play out. if its as bad as you say it is, wont it be bad for the president? i do think there is a way that kind of narratives of disaster do get caught up into the media universe, and ezra, particularly because so few people interface with actually the thing, itself, is does seem to me it would be possible that a media narrative of disaster does get created even e...

President like this, yes? >> yes, and i actually think theres nobody in political office today who understands these issues better than president obama. he understands their history. he understands there are policy consequences on the ground. he may not want to be thrust into the middle of these kinds of issues with everything else on the agenda, but hes the person best positioned to leave the country forward on how we respond to the decision. and i would also like to say that we face a big choi...

Credits, that will allow more people to afford health care. he does keep the part of obama care that both he and romney campaigned against which was smart medicare savings that we achieved by eliminating overpayments to insurance companies. furl both congressman ryan and mitt romney said that that was going to somehow hurt seniors. >> yeah. >> it never was going to. but they are keeping that. they are keeping the very savings in medicare that they campaigned against, but they are cutting the tax...

Campaigned against, which was smart medicare savings that we achieved by eliminating the overpayments to insurance companies. if you recall both congressman ryan and mitt romney said that that was going to somehow hurt seniors. >> yeah. >> it never was going to. but they are keeping that. they are keeping the very savings in medicare that they campaigned against, but they are cutting the tax credits and all of the provisions that make sure that people with pre-existing conditions cant be denied ...

Care that both he and romney campaigned against which was smart medicare savings that we achieved by eliminating overpayments to insurance companies. furl both congressman ryan and mitt romney said that that was going to somehow hurt seniors. >> yeah. >> it never was going to. but they are keeping that. they are keeping the very savings in medicare that they campaigned against, but they are cutting the tax credits and all of the provisions that make sure that people are preexisting conditions ca...

Drones are so remote, there is still burn-out suffered by people who operate them even on safe u.s. terrain. it is not without its sort of moral residue even at home by the people who are participating in this program, and i think thats worth thinking about. >> just to go back to both davids points and katrinas, we were talking earlier about the legal at. when the legal standards for targeting american citizens are so loose, what are the standards that are being applied to nonstandards, non-citi...