Beyond tasty. tender, delicious. do you marinate it? i do, i do. what do you do with the horns? mount them on the wall next to my big foot and him lay yeah. that s good stuff. i m supposed to get to the news here. should we screw it and keep talking? all right. sorry. president obama is continuing [ laughter ] a bad day to stop sniffing glue. president obama is continuing his push to energize the youth vote. yesterday the president held a live town hall that aired on mtv, bmt in which he stepped up his attack on republicans for allegedly using foreign money in campaign ads. if you re in a battleground state right now you re being bombarded with negative ads every single day and nobody knows who is paying for these
And raise some money. clearly there s a place where sarah palin is going to perform well and probably want to be more public in a place where she doesn t want to be. putting aside the michelle obama line, the wurn line i thought was a great applause line was about the shovel-ready project. this goes to this new york times magazine piece that president obama gave, really giving fodder to republicans. he said there s no such thing as a shovel-ready job. i m not sure that was a good idea to do that interview with him. that was one of the principle tenets of the stimulus bill. the summer of recovery, right? that went away quickly, didn t it? we ll get into it later. president had an mtv rally, trying to get the kids fired up. interesting moments in that rally. tough questions. tough questions from the youngsters. i call them the youngsters. they also say man up a lot, the young people. they do. that s going to be my new phrase around here, once you
Ads. they ve got names like americans for prosperity, or moms for motherhood or actually that last one i made up. but you have these innocuous sounding names. we don t know where this money is coming from. i think that is a problem for our democracy. although some reports that mtv had screened the audience to ensure a friendly crowd, the president was forced to defend his economic record to at least one young voter. if the economy does not improve over the next two years, why should we vote you back in. most of the jobs were lost before my economic policies were even put into place. as a consequence of the recovery act we put into place, there s no doubt that three million folks are working now that would not otherwise be working. whereas as the economy was contracting where i came into office, it s now growing. matt lewis, that s the
The military s don t ask don t tell policy to stay in place at least for now. that action came two days after the judge ordered the pentagon to stop enforcing its ban on gay and less beans serving openly in the military. in court papers filed yesterday, the government argued that allowing the ruling to be implemented would disrupt military preparedness and complicate on going reviews of the law. speaking at yesterday s town hall broadcast on mtv, president obama reiterated his opposition to the policy. this is not a situation in which, with a stroke of a pen, i can simply end the policy. i agree with the basic principle that anybody who wants to serve in our armed services and make sacrifices on our behalf, on behalf of our national security, anybody should be able to serve. this is not a question of whether the policy will end. this policy will end, and it will end on my watch. but i do have an obligation to make sure that i m following some of the rules.
Case we saved the economy, we walked ourselves back from the economy, we walked back from the press business. there are three million jobs that would not have existed otherwise. is that breaking through finally, that message. the argument couldn t have been a whole lot worse. it politically doesn t work when the unemployment rate is 9.6% when people are hurting i think some of the toughest questions that president obama has fielded have come from folks who likely voted for him. we remember back, the cnbc town hall a couple weeks ago, a lady who voted for him said give me some hope here. is this the new normal? i think it s fascinating. look, this question this young man asked him at the mtv debate really brings up the reagan question. are you better off today than you were four years ago? in this case are you better off today than you were two years ago. that is what people vote on. the answer today is no, we re not better off in terms of our