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>> the white house has acknowledged that's not accurate. the president did propose this. he didn't want it to become law, and republicans supported it. but it was the white house's idea. he said there unequivocally it will not happen. and yet it's happened. is there some responsibility he bears for that? >> david, jonathan chase of new york magazine, you know, gave the following analogy. a mugger comes up to you and says, give me your wallet. you say, i don't have my wallet but here's my watch. well, technically, giving your watch was your idea. but it doesn't really tell the whole story. we know, everyone knows, that the president wanted an enforcement mechanism that included revenues on the most well off. the speaker insisted, the republicans insisted that, it just be an enforcement mechanism. because we were forced to do that it is true we suggested going back to the graham ruddman hollings method -- >> that's what he said in the debate, i didn't propose it. >> i think it's most accurate that they did propose an all
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resentment over poor blacking getting a free ride. it's eye nev to watch this and think there's no racial element at play. why do we see blue dollar white people on the job wile talking about welfare? it seems to say, while you're working the black president is giving your tax dollars to people who aren't. many see this as miring in deep muck. jonathan chase recently wrote in "new york magazine" the racial implications of the welfare smear have raised the moral stakes to a higher plain than the normal campaign fight associating romney with the darkest strains in american political history. this and the old echoes it brings up make some wonder if an obama re-election could say more about this nation than his election did. obama remains favored to win despite the facts. some say race cost obama 3 to 5
we are discussing whether liberals are disappointed with their president. jonathan chase argued that in his magazine. i want to bring in data here, which we hate to do. the polling on this is interesting. so the president's overall approval rating is 44%. among democrats it is 78%, which is quite high. interestingly, it is a little lower among liberals, 9% among liberals, 69%. for a while there was a disconnect between the perceived amount of dissension in the rank among the liberals and the actual amount, because the polling would show higher levels of approval, but i think that has changed a little bit. i think there's genuine dissatisfaction and a lot of that is with the broader state of the economy.
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