and where are the jobs. what did lew have to say about that very important question about creating jobs and honestly, what role the government has in that? he goes back to retraining. he goes back to making sure that from from prek all the way through community colleges and our university system that we re teaching the right skills, science, technology, engineering, math, so people have technical skills. so it goes back to the sort of bigger picture idea that we re not going to fix what s been going on for the past 30 years. income inequality is sort of the stagnation of the past. we re not going to fix it in a year, but we need to be making the investments right now. that s what s going to keep america on top. that needs to be the long-term focus of our folks in washington. right. if you watch the back and forth political battles, it s
neighborhood made a crash landing earlier. bill: a top republic can in the senate, one of the staunchest supporters of a military strike on damascus. lindsey graham says i believe if we get syria wrong, there will be a war between iran and israel off their nuclear program. my fear is it won t come to america on top of a missile. it will come in the belly after ship in the charleston or new york harbor. is this hyperbole? no. i studied nuclear weapons at mivment t. you don t try to psych out another country in the use of military weapons. i could use the same argument using same information as lindsey graham. i would say it s slap on the wrist.
in a nation that can t cheap the streets an won t play football in the snow, no wonder there is growing concern about an america in decline. what happened to america being the best of the best with the unique character among nations, so-called american exceptionalism in the gop has recently jumped on this as their kbatle cry of choice, claiming president obama s own words prove he doesn t get t. i believe in american exceptionalism, just as i expect that the brits believe in british exceptionalism and the greeks believe in greek exceptionalism. president obama s explanation of american exceptionalism truly alarming. president obama did not understand the question and did not have any idea what american exceptionalism s. 2012 hopefuls and conservative critics sounding the alarm about the need to keep america on top. the united states of america is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history.