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>> well, it's -- chris, first of all, thank you for having us on. it is pretty remarkable. when we started this campaign. i've been running as a strong progressive in the field. now we have 270,000 hits. we have lots of people going to our website to sign up and give money and volunteer. it's really taken off in a great way. i think a lot of it, frankly, is because on the video you can see that i fight for progressive values, i'm a proud massachusetts liberal and i come from a father who is very different from myself and politically we've fought a lot. you know, honestly i think it's refreshin...

More successful struggles, he also made the case just bluntly that equality ought to be agreed upon, that equality of love as he described it ought to be seen as a basic american value. that sort of fit more into the rest of the speech, talking about what have been seen as progressive causes, progressive values, as centrist american old ideas. what do you make of that as an argument from him? >> i think it's a great argument. i also think it has another historical resonance because it brings up the loving decision that ended the structures on interracial marriage not that long ago. >> right. >...

Widely recognized movements, more widely recognized struggles, and in some cases more successful struggles, he also made the case just bluntly that equality ought to be agreed upon, that equality of love as he described it ought to be seen as a basic american value. that sort of fit more into the rest of the speech, talking about what have been seen as progressive causes, progressive values, as centrist american old ideas. what do you make of that as an argument from him? >> i think it's a great argument. i also think it has another historical resonance because it brings up the loving decision...

Struggles, and in some cases more successful struggles, he also made the case just bluntly that equality ought to be agreed upon, that equality of love as he described it ought to be seen as a basic american value. that sort of fit more into the rest of the speech, talking about what have been seen as progressive causes, progressive values, as centrist american old ideas. what do you make of that as an argument from him? >> i think it's a great argument. i also think it has another historical resonance because it brings up the loving decision that ended the structures on interracial marriage n...

Again. >> oh, i tell you what. we have got comments galore tonight, don't we? i mean, this is like a day of reckoning for president obama. as we turn to 2012. let me read this one again. and i refuse to renew them again. i refuse to renew them again. he's talking about the bush tax cuts. i refuse to renew them again. i will not forget this broadcast as long as president obama is president of the united states. and the president defended his vision in a way that championed progressive values but also sounded, i thought, very practical and mainstream. >> there will be those who vigorously disagr...