Sam Roseman News Today

Welcome to the Commonwealth Club, im george hammond, chair of the forum which organized todays events. Im happy to welcome back a. J. Baime who was here a year and half or so ago and his last book in this time we have him here virtually from his home and we will talk about his new book the 1948 election so we are going back 72 years for another Election Year and youll be amazed at exactly how similar it sounds in some ways and in other ways very different and one of the difference is the politic...

Have them here virtually from his home and we are going to talk about his new book about the 1948 election. Were going back 72 years another Election Year. You will be amazed at how it sounds the same in some ways but in some ways very different. The difference is the politicians were all younger than they are today so thats one big difference but a. J. Take it away and tell us about the overview of the book and which is a very good. By the way. Thank you. I like to say couple things first rate ...

Enabled to give more and be in a position to say ill make that giving a more significant part of what i have. I would just like to thank you for this evening and i think we should all thank you because you are doing something that is done rarely and you are actually succeeding and that is even rarer. So thank you. [applause] and im sorry about the many questions i didnt ask. It was nothing personal. Thanks again to peter and michael for being here. That was wonderful. He will be signing at the t...

Moe definitely connects that decision to be out for with democracies from hitlers rampage. The book opens as a fellow writer i will say with a beautiful sentiment. Which is Franklin Delano roosevelt was an unusually found sleeper. [laughter] he then goes on to describe roosevelt being awaken on september 1st in 1939 by a call from the u. S. Ambassador of france who told an german troops across the border into poland were dancing rapidly. Richard moes experience served him well in writing this bo...

Is that there is a way through really good sarcasm to make fun of the other side. franklin roosevelt, bob and i are experts at this, the franklin roosevelt speech he gave at the teamsters convention in 1944 about the republicans making fun of getting his dog a right on a ship somewhere turned the republicans into fools and that won him the election. sam roseman wrote that speech. it was a killer. this isnt being done as well. big bird is going to survive this mess i think. thank you, bob shrum a...

boys? time to attack. which candidate saw 40 million people uninsured americans dragging themselves to sit for hours in emergency rooms across the country? he saw it, obama did, and refused to let it stay that way through yet another presidency. mitt romney saw the way things were and said he wants to keep things that way. if you dont have shoorns, tough. go get a seat with the other victims and moochers. well, this is where romneys vulnerable, where obama can come charging from his gr...

ever grow up thinking her time, her sweat is worth less than a boys? time to attack. which candidate saw 40 million people uninsured americans dragging themselves to sit for hours in emergency rooms across the country? he saw it, obama did, and refused to let it stay that way through yet another presidency. mitt romney saw the way things were and said he wants to keep things that way. if you dont have shoorns, tough. go get a seat with the other victims and moochers. well, this is wher...