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>> race was very, very complicated. barack obama wanted to make race speech as early as the iowa caucuses and his campaign said, you know what, lets not do that. i think everybody can see that youre black. >> one of the ironies, i think, of my dear brother, barack obama, now president obamas victory, was that we have a relative moratorium on serious discussions of race. and thats partly because his strategy -- his strategy was to evade issues of race. >> but in march 2008, explosive videos of ob...

Historic statement. >> the race was very, very complicated. barack obama wanted to make a race speech as early as the iowa caucuses and his campaign said you know what, lets not do that. i think everybody can see that youre black. >> one of the ironies i think of my dear brother barack obama, now president obamas victory, was that we have a relative moratorium on serious discussions of race. thats partly because his strategy was to evade issues of race. >> but in march 2008, explosive videos of ...

From president obama is the immigrant impulse about the sort of big -- this big story of america and i can remember in that race speech in fld fltd when hes talking about the experiences of his former past sto pastor, let me tell you my big story. >> in many ways, ronald reagan was simplistic and americans obviously got that. president obama overthinks it and in a good way. >> he says only -- >> he got it in a good way. >> obama also says, only many america is my story possible. that is as -- to...

>> the diversity. >> lets not mince words. president franklin roosevelt was called a socialist. the john birch society wanted to attack kennedy for being all kinds of things but president barack obama is the first african-american president in our countrys history. this is an enormous step of progress civilizing events and the tea party and these birthers hate it. >> what should they do? >> i dont think it should be focused on these people. focused on the candidate of the republican party and mu...

Called a socialist. the john birch society wanted to attack kennedy for being all kinds of things but president barack obama is the first african-american president in our countrys history. this is an enormous step of progress civilizing events and the tea party and these birthers hate it. >> what should they do? >> i dont think it should be focused on these people. focused on the candidate of the republican party and must be a call on the republican establish document disavow -- >> what should ...

Issue that chased him in a negative way. it was an issue in 2008 when he ran for the presidency and its been a huge issue for him again this time around. so, hes -- hes not the kind of guy that brings it up. it is brought up. >> lets talk about that. you know, youre a mormon, as well. he was mormon, he is a devout mormon. he is mormon leadership. you know, just like president obama did that race speech, mitt romney did a speech about religion. even in that speech, he only mentioned the word morm...

To stay out of it. this is not about the wisconsin state budget. all of the fiscal things that the governor says he wants, all of the things with fiscal impact, the public sector unions offered to give him. not only has he rejected those offers, he will not even discuss them. its about breaking unions and breaking unions not only bes is corporate interests that fund the republican party and scott walker in particular, they serve republican electoral interests in a way that will be more powerful ...

Obama to be the person to help kind of navigate us through these shoals. after that race speech toward a more perfect union in philadelphia, think that really settled it for many americans. so the think the obama administration should actually be more confident about having the president be able to speak exclis italy to the issue of race. >> boyce, when you talk about confidence, the henry gates controversy was not -- you really cant blame the conservatives for that and the president said when a...

Shes been very, very vocal, very accessible as have been thç farmer who was the person who she helped. so you have all these different pieces. they look great on television. it makes great tv. right now people want to see whats going on. overall, in this quick 24-hour news cycle, the media is doing what it usually does, and thats telling us whats going on just as quickly as they found out about it. >> i want to play a portion of then candidate obamas race speech that he gave during the fallout ...

And then just this morning, shes on television. shes been very, very vocal, very accessible as have been the farmer who was the person who she helped. so you have all these different pieces. they look great on television. it makes great tv. right now people want to see whats going on. overall, in this quick 24-hour news cycle, the media is doing what it usually does, and thats telling us whats going on just as quickly as they found out about it. >> i want to play a portion of then candidate obam...