55 of americans support legalizing marijuana. Why is this the case . Because we are talking about it. Because debates are raging at dinner tables that havent been raging at dinner tables in the past. Lets regulate it. Lets attacks it. Lets tax it. Its on the ballot in colorado in november. Coloradoians have the opportunity really to change drug policy worldwide. Coloradans get it. Six years ago they oat voted to decriminalize marijuana on a Campaign Based on marijuana being safer than alcohol. I am not a hypocrite on this issue. I have drank alcohol, i have smoked marijuana. I dont drink alcohol, i dont smoke marijuana. I can tell you, in no category is marijuana more dangerous than alcohol. [applause] and yet we are arresting 1. 8 Million People a year in this country on drugrelated crime. We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 2. 3 Million People. Half of what we spend on law enforcement, the court and the prisons is drug related, and to what end. Look, t
He said, i will need it, i will not meet with you, i will meet with you, and will not meet with you. They did not have a meeting. Bush left the country. Then later he held a conference and denounced bush for not meeting with them. I bet he regretted the way he acted when bush was there earlier. He had personal and intellectual reasons for supporting isreal. He only got 19 of the vote in 2000. Of the jewish vote in 2000. He got a big bond to 24 in 2004 against john kerry. Big bump to 24 in 2004 against john kerry. Bush really benefited from his outreach. I will come to a conclusion, but i want to talk briefly about obama and romney. Obama has a reputation as a reader. There is one time he was asked about reading a book, but he said, i only have time to floss my teeth and watch tv sports. Homeland, theorado la sopranos. He mentioned snooki a couple of times. It was suggested that obamas approach it does not necessarily suggest that obama read the book, but he said obama might have taken
In ohio. Later, more like a Campaign Coverage as a Vice President joe biden travels to lynchburg, virginia. This weekend, booktv is will be in austin, texas. From 11 006 00 eastern, you can hear from Douglas Brinkley and others. Sunday from noon6, a book about ulysses s. Grant, infiltrating drug cartels and inside the house of representatives. The texas book festival, live this weekend, on booktv, on c span 2. Next, we will talk about covering president ial campaigns with political journalists who have moderated president ial debates. They talk about the impact of conventions, Television Ads and voters this campaign cycle. This is one hour, 10 minutes. [applause] thank you very much and a warm welcome to you. We are so pleased that you joined us, and Judy Woodruff, thank you for serving on our board. [laughter] i would like to ask each of debates that we just went through. We were not sure you would make it through the traffic on time. We decided to start off with one of the clips from
The right economic course in a way that is politically beneficial to the politician. Because thats their business. And you have to touf fashion it that way. I also believe that frankly, you know, that Economic Policy however its rendered, the goal of Economic Policy should be in effect to get the direction right. That is, what i would like to do is come up with policies that will make it more likely that Income Growth as people age will be positive. Rather than i want it to be 3 or whatever. You know, too many moving parts, to big an economy. The government can effect the direction of developments not the degree. The medication isnt that much stronger. I mean, you rule out protectionism, trade wars with china that kind of stuff which a lot of people reach to as a cure whats in the disease. Yes. Youre obviously strongly in favor of a Marshall Plan for middle class skills. Community colleges. Absolutely. And i think we can do some pretty radical things in education and training. You know
Is theyre what weve had for 10 years. Businesses have made their plans predicated on a tax rate. I dont think we should increase the tax rates on anybody. I dont care if youre rich, middle class or poor. We shouldnt divide up people. We should divide people into two sectors. Private sector, public sector. I dont want to grow the public sector, i want to grow the private sector. So that means means, leaving as much money in the private sector as possible. I dont want to tax anybody any more to take any money out of the private sector. Why . Because thats where jobs have created. Weve tried this before, the vilify cation of the rich. We tried this one time having is certain surtax on yachts, same as having one on millionaires and anything else. The things we lost were men and women making 50,000 60,000 a year making the yachts. What happens is it doesnt work. Its hard to punish one set of people. Also very not american to say i want to go after those successful people. It also ignores th