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Corps and first from my parents. leadership is about leading. the president hasn t led. of course the congress is polarized and not much is getting done. he works closely with the senate to block whatever we try to do in the house and he s a big part of the problem instead of the solution. what a real leader does, it s a difficult task but recognizing that, leadership rises above that. leadership brings the two groups together and tries get something done. i ve never once been invited to the white house to talk about policy. you know? so where s he been a leader? have you been invited do you shmooze with anybody? president bush would invite them out. a cigar on the truman balcony. did you do that? never once. when s funny about that, other than like the white house christmas party or the specific things, i ve been to maybe two events at the white house, but the democrats, you know, offline, off record will say how disappointed they are in the house they re not invited to the whit ....
In the united states marine corps and first from my parents. leadership is about leading. the president hasn t led. of course the congress is polarized and not much is getting done. he works closely with the senate to block whatever we try to do in the house and he s a big part of the problem instead of the solution. what a real leader does, it s a difficult task but recognizing that, leadership rises above that. leadership brings the two groups together and tries get something done. i ve never once been invited to the white house to talk about policy. you know? so where s he been a leader? have you been invited do you shmooze with anybody? president bush would invite them out. a cigar on the truman balcony. never once. when s funny about that, other than like the white house christmas party or the specific things, i ve been to maybe two events at the white house, but the democrats, you know, offline, off record will say how disappointed they are in the house they re not invited ....
Did and that along this long difficult journey, we re becoming a more perfect union. not a perfect union. joining us now is my colleague toure, co-host of the cycle and jonathan alter a columnist for bloomberg view and the author of the 2012 campaign history the center holds obama and his enemies. welcome to you both. jonathan, have you followed the president at every moment pre-2008 through the campaign. you heard him speak about race in the past. how does what he said today compare to what he has said in the past? well, it is actually of a peace with what he has said in some speeches but he hasn t done so at such a dramatic moment since the jeremiah wright speech during the campaign, and that was partly an exercise in damage control. ....
Host of disrupt, and in philadelphia, professor james peterson, can director of africana studies at lehigh university and an msnbc contributor. karen, this was a surprise. it was impromptu. do you think the president, having seen even the grieving parents of thust shot teenager going on and trying to articulate their grief and trying to help people understand what had happened, do you think the president just felt compelled he had to say something? the sense i get was this was all him. i get the sense there may have been a conversation whereby he told the staff he was doing this, which i give him credit for. i also think to those who would say this president hasn t led, that s leadership what we just saw. sure. understanding in the moment that will historical significance of that moment and knowing that you have to say something. and chuck todd said earlier today, our political editor, that this was not good politics. if the president was only ....
Live there s no reason why we can t have full and immediate disclosure of all contributions in realtime. that s hardball for now. thanks for being with us. the ed show with ed schultz starts right now. good evening, americans. welcome to the ed show tonight from new york. house republicans shot down a tax break for millions of americans. and they re trying to pin the blame on everyone else in washington. this is the ed show. let s get to work. the clock is ticking. time is running out. john boehner s tea party tax hike is about to go forward. this is not poker. it s not a game for the average family who doesn t have an extra thousand bucks to lose. congressman jim mcder mont of washington and senator debbie stabenow of michigan on what happens next. and ezra klein is here to break down the politics. that s my problem with the president. he hasn t stepped up and led. righties keep saying the president hasn t led. they couldn t be more wrong. and tonight, i ll prove ....