nobody is making steel. snob buildingers are. nobody is doing anything in heavy industry. young african-americans grow up in all-white neighborhood hads with no jobs. what are we going to do about it? we are doing something about it. the president started us down that road. look at the state of illinois, high-speed rail coming to the state, creating thousands of jobs. clean-coal technology grants coming into our state, the largest clean coal technology in our history to build a pipe loin to reduce pollution, $250 million to bring high-speed internet across the state of illinois. president obama knows this is the way to build america and he couldn t get a republican, including congressman mark kirk, to even stand behind him and cast a vote to move us forward with good-paying american jobs. i couldn t agree with you more, chris, let s build the infrastructure for the 21st century so that we can make america number one again. well, i don t mind the virtual world but i like the real wo
do you support transparency or the disclosure of this money out there and he said yes. that is interesting, because back in the summer, he voted against the disclose act, which would have done exactly that same thing. there is just no way to jibe those two answers. they are the opposite of each other it is a like a magnet and that is the two end he is much let s be honest, kirk want it is one way, he voted one way, but in the debates, it s live, people have to see him publicly state his positions, he said the exact opposite. i don t know if it s like a john kerry thing, where he was for it, before he was against it maybe he just doesn t know, maybe he didn t know what was voting on. i don t know. what i do know is that you have politicians that for the sake of politicking, for the sake of campaigning, for the sake of replacing barack obama in the united states senate that will say one thing but do another. that s why the people are pissed off. what is new about that? haven t politics
service to this country, it is something to be admired and respected, and i do i just don t understand why he wanted to go a step further and add things to his mel tary record that didn t exist. to insist he had a background as a teacher when, in fact, he had a very limited background as a person working in a day care center and a prep school in england. i mean, these sorts of things are embellishing a record, they go beyond the simple question of whether her is nftd military. of course he did it is a more important question about whether or not he is going to be straight with the people in his answers. well, let me get the two issues i care about. one is this foreign money thing. and the whole question of corporate power. if you ask any corporate person who is working for a big corporation where a lot of the jobs are they make that are money today, keep their dow averages up by cost cutting, by firing people, by limiting you the number of american workers they hire. if that s going
not be some credibility test for you? should that have some weight on whether you can be trusted if you re going to exaggerate your military record? something that sensitive? there certainly should be and the level of scrutiny here is completely appropriate because this is a very high office. for me, what i did first was to correct the record, then apologize to the people of illinois. then i released all 21 years of my officer fitness report, these are my confidential personnel file to everyone so that they could read. i m very proud of my record. i ve served in afghanistan in northern watch and operation allied force. i believe in this country very greatly and i would give my life for it. i think it s made me a better congressman. and a better advocate. bottom line, did you say you were once shot at when, in fact, you were not? for example, when you re flying over iraq as a big nato strike package, usually the iraqis opened up on us. but whether the squadron came under fire on u
do you accept his explanation? that s for the voters. but even more troubling than untruth was the military record than his phantom teaching career. more troubling to me are his votes in washington, d.c. here is someone where you don t know where he stands. the chicago sun times pointed out friday we don t know where he stands on important issues. now, david, the people of illinois may not always agree with everything i say, but they always know where i stand. he says he votes for cap and trade and doing it for the security of the united states and then as a republican for the senate and said he would never vote that way again and it was a huge mistake. they asked him on the don t ask, don t tell. he said he s not sure yet. i ll tell you where i stand. that s leadership. that s what the people of illinois want and that s what i m give them the rest of my career. that s the fundamental difference in principles, values and more or less between myself and the congressman. i want to