because he wall street abandoned, leading him to seek acceptance by co-religionists. that seems to be a shocking bit of armchair psychology and more to the point because of the 911, war in iraq the need for stability for israel. and it s all in there. as an ambassador. my job was to understand the man to whom i had to represent my government. 2009, and it s so the section of the book called obama 101, where i talk about how i came to this job as a historian, not as a diplomat. i took my historian skills and used them to study the president. i looked at everything he wrote, everything he talked about, and i looked at his policies. he used to talk a lot about his own family connections, about his relationships with his biological father he stepfather his connections with the muslim world and would talk
that s the problem. alex, you identified it. eric ericson is not going to accept a compromise. i don t think special interest groups, heritage action for growth, are going to accept any sort of compromise that comes out of this, anything that isn t total surrender by the president on health care or total surrender by the president on other issues. we know where the president is on this and we know where harry reid is on this. i agree with you, david, i think the only way out for boehner is it s not going to happen, we ve got to keep the government going. that s why i assumed this idea of temporary short-term basically putting off, kicking the can down the road two months which the white house is screaming at the top of our lungs to john boehner, do it. we ll lock ourselves in a room. margaret, we often wonder about boehner psychology, i ll play armchair psychology, the
they seemed their plan seems to be started to unravel last night. i guess my armchair psychology about that would be that that they weren t ready to leave boston on monday, and by last night they were ready to leave this world and go out in a blaze of glory. and i think that, you know, we have the situation on monday where they wanted to enjoy the, you know, basking in their glory, admire their own handiwork, they stay at the crime scenes where people are so severely injured and killed, and they don t even leave. much like an arsonist stays at a fire to watch the handiwork that he did. so then these days go by, the pictures go on the media last night, and i think if they saw that, they realized they have got people that are going to turn them in before too long, that their hours and days are definitely going to be numbered. so they go on offense. and i think that s what led to the very first thing last night to start their battle with the police and society, their final
created two special leadership seats for these freshmen because they said this is something we need to acknowledge, a major part of our base. so, they do know how to create positions for people so they can have access to power. aware of how politics work they don t always play the game. glenn, we have talked there s a lot of talk in pontiff fi indicating and armchair psychology what the gop s going to do, take the party in a different direction, emerge stronger. when you see stuff like this, and you hear talk about immigration, we hear talk about outreach to, you know, people of color, it really makes you wonder if they re capable of substantive change, given the fact it did not occur maybe there should be a woman in a leadership position there. i will say there are two seats left. maybe they ll get the memo. ethics, right? a real door prize there. special committee on outreach to women?
trenchcoat mafia who were bullied within an inch of their life by these jocks and went about exacting revenge from the jocks. that s what everybody knows about columbine. everything i just said is wrong. not one bit of that is true. but we all believe that because that was the analysis in the first, really, the first day, but over the first week, over and over again, and those ideas solidified into fact to where everyone believed them. so 13 years later, it s really impossible to ever take that story back. when we in the media, if we do too much armchair psychology based on little teeny scraps of information right now, it s going to stay with us. honestly, there s a little somewhat less danger in this case because he s eventually going to go to trial and that will overwhelm we don t want to mess it up right now and have these ideas with us, and actually we don t want to be impacting the jury by solidifying these ideas of what we think was going on in his