but the article by dennis de souza has tons of inaccuracy and misstated assumptions in it. it s a dream/nightmare of the right about obama. it s not really about obama. it s less about barack obama, president barack obama than it is about the fears and the nightmares and the resentments of the people who write articles like that. it is more of a window into desouza than barack obama. it has almost nothing to do with barack obama himself. yes, he wrote the book dreams from my father, but if you read that book, it s not about what danish de souza says it s about. who was it that said the other day they know less about this guy than anybody? haley barbour. haley barbour. now newt goes after him for having written an autobiography. it seems like there s no way this guy can can win the argument of who he is. no, and this is a myth too they don t know this about him. if you go back and read barack obama s debut speech to the
back to hardball. and now the sideshow. is john boehner calling it quits with his smoking habit, that is. watch what he told bob schieffer yesterday on face the nation. mr. boehner, i m going to ask you this question because i m not objective about this. i m a cancer survivor. i used to be a heavy smoker. do you still smoke? i do. bob, tobacco was a legal product in america. and the american people have a right to decide for themselves whether they want to partake or not. if you should become speaker, you could set a good example for the country by saying i m not going to smoke. maybe you could get the president. i understand he smokes, too. maybe the two of you could find a way to try to stop smoking. that would be a good thing, wouldn t it? bob, i appreciate your suggestion. bob, a noble effort. let boehner be boehner and obama, obama. now to the big number. as the saying goes, it appears the cake is baked this november.
interesting about that state? a small state by population, a relatively number of small people, we were not sure who were voting. a small number of people, delaware, a small state where a few people, that s why republican strategists are nervous. everyone i talk to today say we think he s going to win, but we don t know. okay. tell me something i don t know, cillizza. is murkowski going to go three-way in alaska? no. even if she did, it s very, very put another very in there, difficult. gaffeny, what is the first state? the first state, we are the first state. thank you so much. an easy way to end. delaware s the first state. thank you. why do i get that question? because you re on the show too often. thank you, chris, dan. up next, meg whitman has spent over $100 million on her and ready to spend a lot more. now, she s trying to use bill clinton to bring down her opponent, jerry brown. what an ad she s put on the air. brown and clinton butted heads when running for p
democratic convention in 2004, the first line of his speech after he got through throat clearing is about his father was a tribesman in kenya who herded goats. this has never been secret. he s been more open about this part of his life, his history, his relationship with his father. go back and read george bush s autobiography. or about bill clinton before he ran for president. obama s been honest. it s just that they want people like gingrich, de souza want to keep poking a stick and hinting that there s some secret to the way he s governing. there is no secret. if this guy appointed larry summers and tim geithner and a bunch of mainstream american this is this is dragging our politics chris, the harvard law school has a lot more to do with the way barack obama governs than kenya does, but citing the harvard law school has kind of lost its oomph. since john roberts is an alumnus of the harvard law school.
probably come out there for barbara boxer and she s in a tough race. he would have said good things about brown along the way. i guess this is tricky now. well, let s be very clear. i think senator clinton as is the case with now secretary of state clinton will probably at some point be in california. that s just the way the political game is played. i think she will say good things about all of the democratic candidates, even more importantly, i think president bill clinton will be in california and probably more than one time. and he, too, will say good things about democratic candidates. jerry brown has to be very, very careful. he s so bright, so able and so combative on every occasion when anybody attacks him, he flashes back. and this is one of those occasions when he just made a tactical error. he did not know somebody was there with the television camera watching and hearing exactly what he says.