realized he can do and what he cannot do, what has appeal and what no longer has appeal. you see the appeal to the president of actually being able to make things happen on the international stage when you can t in washington. so, you get remarkable moments like today in san francisco. the president was raising money for the democratic party, but also to keep banging the drum for something everybody thought would be done by now on the domestic stage, immigration reform. everybody thought that would be done by now, but it is totally stalled. and as the president steps up to the microphone to make his remarks that have been advance billed as a speech on immigration, as he steps up to the mike to make that speech, he s able to start his speech by saying, you know what, first, i ve got to mention something else. i have to rattle off this great list of accomplishment in terms of my agenda for america on the world stage, and he gets to do that at the start of this speech in san francisco and
building they live in. so, on a day like today, in the second term of the obama presidency, we just got this remarkable snapshot of kind of what it s like to be president, about what a president has realized he can do and what he cannot do, what has appeal and what no longer has appeal. you see the appeal to the president of actually being able to make things happen on the international stage when you can t in washington. so, you get remarkable moments like today in san francisco. the president was raising money for the democratic party, but also to keep banging the drum for something everybody thought would be done by now on the domestic stage, immigration reform. everybody thought that would be done by now, but it is totally stalled. and as the president steps up to the microphone to make his remarks that have been advance billed as a speech on immigration, as he steps up to the mike to make that speech, he s able to start his speech by saying, you know what, first, i ve got to menti
are going to cover for the president who said things that frankly embarrasses america on the world stage, that maybe opens insight for the president to some say he s racist, he has a tendency to use racial language, so we re going to defend the president on a princip princip principal issue because we think our proposal is better than your proposal? there have been people who decide they re speaking to an audience of one. they would rather, no matter the kind of flak they re given on the issue, they re willing to stroke the ego because they re looking to advance their political goals. but as you say, that s coming at a real serious cost. there are people really hurt by this language both domestically and abroad, and it s striking these senators would decide, even considering that issue, i m willing to then advance my personal life. what the president thinks about people, about countries is
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