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By the rhetoric thats gotten you to this point. i dont think i want to be too gracious about republican candidates say, i take the president at his word. you are dealing with 41% of the americans. 41% self-identify as independents. republicans can make a small claim for their vote based on reducing deficits and the debt. independent voters overwhelmingly dislike the high partisanship we have seen from washington. they dont like this extreme rhetoric. >> thats a long time, john. we heard that dur...

Sometimes special accommodations can be given such as extended test taking time in a testing center or a note taker or perhaps having a digital recorder in class and we tried to do that but these students have to self-identify. i dont have the power to say you must go here and take this test. i actually thought at the time i might be able to get him to do that, but i never was able to talk to him on a one-on-one basis. i worried about him a lot. he came to class. he wore clean clothes. he was we...

The tea party element in every state tends to be the most energized part of it. i mean, thats one of the things that people who self-identify as tea party members, those are the ones that are the most enthusiastic and she has their backing. >> lets talk about arizona, the department of justice going after arizona for the tough new immigration law. you have to wonder, too, if the obama administration feels like a lot is at stake and its continued pursuit of the law, might that pursuit potentially...

So i think thats also part of what people are upset about. >> ms. walsh, what do you make of this? whats the case against it? >> well, i think right away people will see, oh, is this another hollywood celebrity carrying a black baby instead of a white purse dog? so theyre worrying that it may be a fashionable trend. the truth is adoptions are color blind. you get what you get if you say that you will take whatever. and thank goodness. these liberal progressive wealthy people are able to take any...

People of color. i have bi-racial children. they dont self-identify black or white. >> i was going to ask you. children can be cruel. when you are a child, people in school, make fun of you, call you names, call you an oreo cookie. once you become an adult you think thank goodness someone saved me. my question is -- i see you cringing, do you not believe that is so? >> yeah. it is ms. rollins. i guess what im responding to is the notion that adoption is color blind. i think that is one of the th...

Be only examined if youre over 40, you need to think about how you think about race. because the younger generation doesnt see race the way perhaps my generation or older generation. did we live in a global world where we have a biracial president. some of the most famous and wealthy celebrities in the world are people of color. i happen to have biracial children. they dont self-identify black or white. >> thats what i was going to ask you. children can be cruel. so when youre a child, when your...

Cheney following the florida race, marco rubio in a primary for republicans. in backing marco rubio said this, charlie crist showed time and again he cannot be trupsed in washington to take on the obama agenda. issue after issue, he supports that agenda. lately, the vice president said, it seems charlie crist cannot be trulsed even to remain a republican. check the figures before coming on air. 28% of americans self-identify themselves as republicans. as this a sort of an attack on a registered ...

And dick cheney in backing marco rubio said this of a fellow republican. "charlie crist has shown time and again that he cannot be trusted in washington to take on the obama agenda, because on issue after issue, he actually supports that agenda. lately, it seems charlie crist cannot be trusted even to remain a republican." i checked the figures before coming on air. 28% of americans now self-identify themselves as republicans. is this sort of an attack on a registered republican sitting governor...

Senate primary for republicans. and dick cheney in backing marco rubio said this of a fellow republican. charlie crist has shown time and again that he cannot be trusted in washington to take on the obama agenda because on issue after issue he actually supports that agenda. lately, the vice president said, it seems charlie crist cannot be trusted even to remain a republican. i checked the figures before coming on air. 28% of americans now self-identify themselves as republicans. is this sort of ...

Charles krauthammer. what about this battle on this day, steve? >> its interesting to watch the evolution not only evolution of the tea party themselves but how they are treated by the elite. remember when the tea parties first started this was a fringe group and they were angry and a bunch of kooks. then people gradually understood they were our neighbors and in the case of congress their constituents. now you have a "new york times" cbs poll that finds out one in five people are tea party supp...