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Rights are innate, they come with our birth, they arent given to us by a government. but, oftentimes, it has taken a government to give us those rights in effect, whether it was mississippi in 62 or alabama in 63 or onward. federal troops or u.s. marshals. someone has had to come and say you will give these people their god-given rights. >> yeah, look, the speech had a powerful eloquence. but it also had a narrative thread. and what he did was embed his whole argument in the declaration of indep...

Bookend. and i think ricks right about this. it was a bookend to the reagan speech in 1980. it made progressive vision for america mainstream. it claimed the mainstream of america for progressive values. i think its a very significant speech. >> well, rick, respond to that. i think it develops the point. listen to what the president said about the middle class. take a look here, rick. >> we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well when a growing m...

Who turned sworn enemies into the surest of friends. and we must carry these lessons into this time as well. i think hes talking about iran. the one war that you face within the next few moments. >> you may very well be. you have to keep in mind taking those sworn enemies was after we defeated them in war. >> why did he say it tonight? >> i think its a pivotal point. i think he is going to go back to what he said in the first inaugural and during the first campaign about how its time for us to p...

>> yeah, you should. >> have been a little slow on making. >> yeah, bobby, i think theres a real argument here that this is sort of an anti-iran speech, an anti-paul ryan speech. and rick said, no, its not every person for themselves. that isnt going to sell. they dont like it in american life today. i think thats what he was selling, i agree with rick. it was strongly philosophical about community values. >> well, i think thats right. i think rick is completely right. you know, in 1960, and, ch...

Illness or a home swept away in a terrible storm. the commitments we make to each other through medicare and medicaid and social security, these things do not sap our initiative, they strengthen us. they do not make us a nation of takers, they free us to take the risks that make this country great. >> rick, that was the first time ive ever heard anybody make that fasz nating defense of these safety net programs. wherein parents will risk anything. theyll spend all of their money as they make it ...

Prospective, except for lincolns, of course. i thought this was a great speech. i thought it was much better than his first inaugural. it was forth right in setting out a vision of a kind of government that obama wants. in a way, it was, like, it was kind of a liberal version of reagans first inaugural where he disparaged government. this was a firm defense of a word he dared to use. of clengtive action. and bill the way, that one drove them nuts at fox news. >> well, bob, the president referenc...

Progressives, have been absent from for almost a generation and have adopted the conservative rhetoric. and in this speech, obama came out forthrightly and i guess the thing about takers was as close as he came to spiking a football. but, mostly, his language, mostly his language, though firm and clearly progressive, was nonconfrontational. it was -- he was not gloating. but he was forcefully making a case that presidents, that liberal presidents, if i may use that terrible word, liberal -- >> y...

06 our tiechl, not only with the votes we cast, but with the voices we list in defense of our most ancient value of enduring ideas. >> welcome back to "hardball," that was one of the memorable lines from the presidents speech tonight. well, today, in the speech, the president gave a speech of sbieltlement to the middle class. he also made a historic reference to gay rights, first-time ever for a president. and he probably drove neocons crazy with the term sworn enemies into the surest of friends...

[ crowd boos ] >> they aint biography it. aarp is a nonpartisan organization. >> time and again this president has dubbcked the issues, put hi own job security over your retirement security. [ crowd boos ] >> of course he said hed be willing to work with republicans but he has not moved an inch closer to common ground. [ crowd boos ] >> some convention-goers walked out of the ryan speech. it should be of little surprise that seniors in attendance werent sold on ryans rhetoric. >> i think they co...

Into it. it weakens medicare for todays seniors and puts it at risk for the next generation. [ crowd boos ] >> they aint biography iuying . aarp is a nonpartisan organization. >> time and again this president has ducked the issues, put his own job security over your retirement security. [ crowd boos ] >> of course he said hed be willing to work with republicans but he has not moved an inch closer to common ground. [ crowd boos ] >> some convention-goers walked out of the ryan speech. it should b...