Remember what it was like president obama had been elected on this massive wave of hope and enthusiasm. On election day 2008 elected on this amazing wave. The countrys at his back. All the forces of history are behind him, and he proceeded to continue the policies of president bush essentially unchanged. Im referring to his policies towards wall street, towards the investment banks. No big banks were ever put into receivership, no bailouts were unwound. No elite bankers were ever prosecuted. Obama and his democrats refused to change course when every sign was telling them to turn. When it would have been good policy to turn. When it would have been overwhelmingly popular to turn. When the country fully expected them to turn. And when i say the country, i mean the bankers themselves. The wall street bankers thoughtl they were going to be taken to the woodshed. And when it was fully within the president s and his partys power to steer this country in a different direction, they didnt do
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And at the same time the adams camp accused Andrew Jacksons wife, but it was vicious. We think of it like politics, it was very civil. Adams it was great. It was very not very nice. Was there a particular period of her life or episode in her life or aspect of her life that you were frustrated by this horrible record about and wanted to go into more detail on . Great question. Certainly slavery is one of the things i was interested in. I know it is frustrating because i had census records and legal documents and she didnt write about that stuff. I cant talk about her attitudes in quite that way although she does talk about slavery later. There are periods she goes silent. I felt the lack of her voice in those moments but she did leave, she herself left a vibrant record, not like a lot of women at the time burn their letters because people didnt she burned this. I feel very lucky to have chosen a subject, she later said she had a mania for writing. I would like to think about that later.
Washington dc. On thursday at barnes noble in virginia, former secret Service Officer gary burns talks about what he observed about bill and Hillary Clinton protecting the first family. And we are live with bestselling author and journalist sebastian younger on indepth. He will take your questions and comments on many books including his latest on American Veterans returning to civilian life on homecoming and belonging. That is look at the programs booktv is covering this week. Many of these are open to the public. Look for them to air on cspan2. Who is Samantha Brinkman . Guest a criminal defense lawyer who left the office a couple years back in private practice, struggling to make a name for herself and bring her practice up, had a very tortured past, traumatic childhood, probably twisted at birth anyway and the combination made her someone unusual. A suggestion she ignored and frequently does. Host is there a certain breed for a defense attorney . Guest good question. I am not sure.
Guest a criminal defense lawyer who left the office a couple years back in private practice, struggling to make a name for herself and bring her practice up, had a very tortured past, traumatic childhood, probably twisted at birth anyway and the combination made her someone unusual. A suggestion she ignored and frequently does. Host is there a certain breed for a defense attorney . Guest good question. I am not sure. Defense lawyers have a different mandate. A prosecutor has to think about a fair trial for everyone, has an ethical obligation to make sure it is not just about a conviction but getting convicted in a fair way so everyones rights are protected. They have no such obligation. Defense attorney only has to take care of her clients and that is samantha. She worries about her clients and what is fair and winning and that is all she worries about. Host the client have to be innocent to defend . Wikipedia guest if it is only about defending the innocent that attorney would have no