That the 204,000 jobs added is sounds good, doesnt it . But i would take it with a grain of salt. The defy sets are going down. Theyre not going up. Shut up, shut up is it as great as we need to have a really roaring recovery, no . But its certainly better than where we were last month. So its not bad. We would have had more jobs in october were it not for the shutdown and the brinksmanship. Part of the problem, obama care, continuing to hang over our economy like a wet blanket. By bringing down the cost of health care that doesnt just help our economy, it helps bring our deficit down. Theres no question that the shutdown harmed our jobs market. The gears of our economy, every time they are just about to take off, suddenly somebody taps the brakes. Somebody taps the brakes and says not so fast. Ooh child things are going to get easier always glad to have that tupac when you need him. Haters gonna hate. But president obama and workers across the country have something to celebrate. Despite all the republican resistance and a 16day Government Shutdown, were still adding jobs. We just found out the u. S. Economy added 204,000 jobs last month. I think thats a pretty good number. Obviously oh, you dont like Unemployment Rate going up. But thats also so much a function of how whether people are dropping out oh of the job market or going in. Most exciting to us in these data were that august and september were revised up. Where now it looks like were creating 200,000 jobs a month. And so going into the shutdown on, the economy was in a stronger place than people thought. Usually this is when we would hear john boehner and his buddies step up to the mike and twist the positive jobs report. But, of course, they are not in session. Do these guys ever work . The right wing smear machine is picking up the slack with a full force attack on the president and obama care. President obamas Approval Rating falling on the obama care disaster. I felt not only the president , but i felt the people around the president for allowing him to mislead the American People for so long oh. His administration is not anyone elses. This is the obama administration. My goodness gracious. What the conservative crowd seems to forget is, Republican House speaker John Boehners nonaction started the Government Shutdown in the first place. The white house released hard numbers about the price we paid for the shutdown. Ahead of todays job reports. The shutdown led to more than 6 million days of lost work, and cost taxpayers 2 billion in back pay for government workers. Those numbers seem small in the context of the 16 trillion economy. But my friends, they do add up to less effective government service, and at a higher cost. The report didnt even calculate the amount it takes for actually shutting the government down, and reopening it. But it described it as significant. Even after all of this, a second shutdown is looming. Another shutdown will happen unless congress can pass a budget or provide more stopgap financing for the government. A bipartisan house and Senate Negotiating Committee is working behind closed doors on a budget agreement. But expectations for any kind of major deal are extremely low. Its no surprise that expectations are dwindling after the kind of stunts and fake filibusters senator ted cruz and his tea Party Conservative cronies were pulling last month. Its not out of the realm of possibility that ted cruz will do Something Like that again. Still, president obama remains focused on moving ahead and making more improvements for the u. S. Economy. Jobs topped his agenda today. He spoke to a crowd in new orleans just a short time ago. Our businesses are resilient. Weve got great workers, and so as a consequence, we added about 200,000 new jobs last month. But theres no question that the shutdown harmed our jobs market. The Unemployment Rate still ticked up. And we dont yet know all the data for the final quarter of the year, but it could be down, because of what happened in washington. Now, that makes no sense. These selfinflicted wounds dont have to happen. They should not happen again. We should not be injuring yourself every few months. We should be investing in ourselves. We should be building, not tearing things down. Rather than refighting the same old battles again and again and again, we should be fight to go make sure everybody who works hard in america and hard here in new orleans, they have a chance to get ahead. Thats what we should be focused on. My fellow americans, its clear the conservative talk tank is running low on fuel. And is blaming the wrong guy. Get your cell phones out. I want to know what you think. Tonights question, do conservatives care more about fixing the economy or destroying president obama . Text a for fixing the economy. Text b for destroying president obama. To 67622. Or go to our blog at ed. Msnbc. Com. Ill bring you the results later in the show. Joining me now is dr. Frederick haynes iii, Senior Pastor at Friendship West Baptist Church in dallas, texas. And reverend dr. Otis moss iii, Trinity United Church of christ in chicago. Gentlemen, welcome back. Thank you, dr. Dyson. Thank you. Why isnt president obama getting any credit for the things hes doing right . They beat up on this man as if hes done the worst thing since the, you know, the invention of the wrong machine that we can hit. Whats going on here . Why cant he get any credit . Well, the bottom line is the president is making progress in spite of, and so as a consequence, you have 204,000 jobs created in spite of, and with that being the case, please understand, theres an underlying issue of race that oftentimes is not addressed. This black man in the white house. And on the other hand, you also have a determination on the right to do everything wrong to ensure that the president does not have success. After all, this is the same right wing that before the last election, you had some of their leaders saying that their numberone priority was to ensure that the president does not get a second term. You had, who is it, Rush Limbaugh say when he was first elected he wanted him to fail. So that has been the agenda of those on the right. Instead of creating jobs, they have been determined to sabotage his job. Instead of looking out for everyday people in america, they have been determined to ensure everyday that the president catches nothing but hell. Again, there is an undercurrent of race on top of that. Its the politics of the right that is leading our country in many instances wrong. Great. Well, in light of that, dr. Moss, we know in many senses the folds the faults and flaws of the obama care in terms of its implementation are widespread. The technical matters. But the substance of it seems to be pretty much in place. But how important was the speech today, to pivot attention away from the negative activity about obama care . Well, i think it was pivotal. It was not about the websites that are working or not working. In our congregation, we have a wonderful woman. Ill call her mary. She was working poor. She was homeless, unbeknownst to us. We found out that she was homeless and we, of course, wanted to support her. But here is a woman whose ministry was servicing those who are most i mpoverished in chicago. She was not a take e a scammer, ethically dubious in any way, shape or form. She was deeply committed and in the word of the gospel, what is beautiful about the Affordable Care act, it lifts up one of the oldest, most ancient ideas. The idea that we are to lift up those who are hurting. And so what we are seeing is no longer are the poor invisible. And what i am so proud of, in reference to the president , the president was able to stand before the nation, admit that we have challenges, admit that there have been mistakes that have been made. I want a leader that is willing to admit, ive made a few mistakes. Because i teach my own children that you are better when you admit your mistakes. In the words of the great coach, phil jackson, admit your mistakes, make an adjustment, and we continue with the fight. We have admitted some mistakes, but we make an adjustment and we continue with the fight. No longer will the poor be invisible and in the words of tupac that you quoted earlier, were going to keep our heads up. Keep your head up, no doubt about that. And like he said, it aint funny, when it rains it poors, money for wars but cant feed the poor. Speaking about the poor, dr. Haynes that dr. Moss spoke about, the president is supporting a bill that would raise the minimum wage to over 10 an hour. How likely do you think it is that given all the division in congress, that hes going to be successful . Well, unfortunately, you have an Obstructionist Congress that is determined to declare war on the poor, as well as fight the president of the United States. And so the likelihood of the congress coming along and recognizing that those at the bottom need to have the floor raised, as opposed to insuring insuring that those who are in the penthouse are doing even better with tax cuts, i dont see that happening. But, again, look at what took place with the jobs report. You are talking about 204,000 jobs created in spite of a Government Shutdown. In spite of a congress that is basically do nothing. In spite of a congress that says were not going to pass the president s jobs bill. Were not going to fix a crumbling infrastructure. And so this has happened in spite of, and so as a man of faith, i believe that in spite of the goliath of a congress saying were not going to do anything for you, david still has some smooth stones. And hopefully well raise the floor so that even those at the bottom can have an opportunity to move forward. So looking at congress, no. Looking up to god, yes. All right. What we need to be able to do is to make sure we are injecting compassion, love and justice into the civic discourse. When love and justice get married together, something powerful happens. Love without justice and sentimentality Justice Without love can become naked brutality. When they go down the aisle, marry each other, produce twins, one transformation and the other liberation. That becomes important. We speak with compassion. Thats extremely important. So what do you say to critics who say raising the minimum wage could slash the total of lowincome jobs and that these twins will be viciously separated . Well i would say to those conservatives that we must make sure that we are speaking to all americans and no longer will the poor be invisible. It does not hurt jobs every time we raise the minimum wage. We create a class of people not only able to purchase but able to make their way out of poverty. Its interesting that the group that wants to speak about jesus does not want to preach what jesus preached. And so i would encourage our conservative brothers to go back to the gospel and begin to look and see who christ focused on and that was the poor. And whether you are atheist or whether you are an an will i can, you should have compassion and operate with love and we should inject that into american discourse. Dr. Haynes, in light of what doctor moss has indicated, how do we talk about a nation that claims itself to be at least allegedly christian, and yet display such heartless disregard for the poor . Veterans day is coming up, we know there are many veterans out here who are starving, homeless, who are without, you know, serious economic or social support. What do we say to a nation that has turned its back on so many of the homeless and those who are poor and those who are certainly without resource . Well, its a nation that needs to repent. To continue what doctor moss was saying, if you look at the gospels, jesus will judge nations but how they treat his brothers and sisters. So i hear jesus saying i was hungry and you cut food stamp programs. I was thirsty for knowledge and you cut opportunities for a head start. And pell grants. And real sense. And as much as you do it to the least of these, my brothers and sisters, he says youre doing it also under me. And so we are editing out certain sections of scripture, when we say that we are not going to be a blessing to those who are poor. Were not concerned about justice, were not concerned about the least of these. Were not expressing our love for those who find themselves oftentimes left behind. And with that being the case, that is antichrist. That is anti christian. And so this nation, if anything, it needs to repent. It needs to change its mind, because how can you say you love god, whom youve never seen, but you mistreat your brothers and sisters who you see every single day. And so regardless of your faith background, every faith background recognizes a responsibility for those who are left behind. And so this nation is really running anti let california to what it claims to be as a quote, unquo unquote, christian nation. Its really antichrist. All right. Reverend dr. Frederick haynes iii and dr. Otis moss iii. If you think its hot friday night, you better join them sunday morning. Thank you so much. Remember to answer tonight question at the bottom of the screen and share your thoughts on twitter at ed show. And on facebook. I really want to know what you think. 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Loser youre a loser homophobic, anti choice, birther friendly, big three hating. Ken cuccinelli. Cuccinellis crowd is a bunch of Typical Tea Party crazies. And todays top trender. Barracuda is back. You are good people. Fried butter on a stick. Cheesecake on a stick. Sarah palin sets her sights on the hawkeye state. She wants to get involved in the races. Ted cruz and more of those good guys need some reinforcemen reinforcements. Mike lee, i am your father. And potentially senate campaigns. Someday im actually going to tell america what i really think. Ooh barracuda im joined now by liberal commentator and comedian, john fugelsang. How are you doing, my man . Always a pleasure. So sarah palin is speaking at the iowa faith and Freedom Conference this weekend. In des moines. What is she hoping to accomplish there . Is this a warmup, so to speak . There will be cameras there, doctor. She is flogging a new book, getting in on the war on christmas bandwagon five years after bill oreilly made it trendy. Its going to work. Sharpes job right now is to keep folks like you and me talking about sarah palin. Its easy to scoff and say oh, she is irrelevant, she can see oblivion from her house and i get those arguments. I think sarah palin is sort of like she does for the gop what jar jar binks did for Star Wars Episode 1. She distracts the easily amused from a total lack of narrative. But the fact is, you know this, doctor, no major candidate will ever criticize her on the gop side. No politician outside of dick cheney has ever criticized her once, because for all the laughable aspects of her, she is still a kingmaker and everybody wants her endorsement. Well, it seems after Ronald Reagan she is the most teflonlike republican in a long while. But in the band of republican ideology, she is playing second fiddle to utah senator mike lee at the conference this year. Do you think she still has the juice . Does she have the same influence in the gop she had even a couple years ago . Oh, good lord, no. I do think shell be the firstever Major Party Ticket candidate to one day host a cosmetics infomercial. You know its going to happen. In the ten years shell be marveling over this lip l