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Obama. the problem is us. we, the people. have to decide whether we want to market based economy or a allow the federal government to control commerce including healthcare. the president believes in equality. that would be nice. equality is great. if there is a heaven, i assume we will see it there. on earth, equality is impossible. you cannot equate an american who holds a ph.d. with a high school dropout. no matter what president obama tells us the two will never be equal in the market place. therefore, the president seems to want to change the marketplace, putting the federal government in ...

Obama. the problem is us. we, the people. have to decide whether we want to market based economy or a allow the federal government to control commerce including healthcare. the president believes in equality. that would be nice. equality is great. if there is a heaven, i assume we will see it there. on earth, equality is impossible. you cannot equate an american who holds a ph.d. with a high school dropout. no matter what president obamahe equal in the market place. therefore, the president seems to want to change the marketplace, putting the federal government in charge of who gets what. even...

We can do in the next two weeks in order to really take that off the table for american families who have suffered so much in all of this. >> but seeing that schism between the speaker of the house that has a conservative house caucus and other folks even in the senate who have a more progressive view on this thing, is this a sign of sis m or do you think the president has advocated the fever may be breaking amongst republicans over the questions of tax razors. >> i think it is a realistic approach to where we are today. the american public spoke in this last election very loud. the issue of w...

Getting better. the other one is to restore, restore, go back to where we were. to a lot of americans, there were slaves, women weren't voting. the idea of nostalgia is okay for movies and music, but if you get into it -- and i think the parties reflect the difference. condi reflected the progressive view. >> we get caught up in the moments each day and then you look back and say, yeah, there is the part of the convention that rallies the base. that felt like last night. and then the part that has impact. we haven't had that yet. that's mitt romney. >> it's hard. the idea that 6 or 7% are out ...

Cardinal o'malley from boston. >> yeah. >> he's filled with humility. i agree with george. i think we don't want to misread or misinterpret or interpret too early his politics. but the fact is that he does stand for social justice. he is a jesuit. and we have not -- and he stands on behalf of victims. victims of all sorts of things. victims of economic injustice. victims of social inequality. victims of racial inequality. and even sexual inequality. he has, i think, addressed that in part. not, i think, many american catholics hoping for a more progressive view of catholicism are going to be d...