- i m just gonna add to the chaos and the trauma of the day by saying that a large plane has now crashed about 80 miles southeast of pittsburgh. - we don t know where their destination was, what their target was. we can only presume we can only guess that they were short of the target. - it would never be the same for george w. bush. from that moment on, he would never again have the bandwidth to think primarily about domestic problems. - by september, he still wasn t seen as a heavyweight. there were still questions, even from republicans who liked him. could he handle this job if something big happened? and then something big happened. but in the early weeks of the crisis, george w. bush proves to be incredibly effective. [crowd murmuring] - this nation stands with the good people of new york city as we mourn the loss
you have opinions on everything. what s his opinion on this? [ crying ] any among you who is without sin, let him be the first to cast a stone at her. any among you who is without sin? [ crowd murmuring ] god has set forth the law, not him. the law must be carried out. kill her. [ crying continues ] [ crowd murmuring ] here. kill her. [ crying continues ] you kill her.
confronted, the dangerous protesters they faced were wildly different in scale and danger. there is a xhocommon thread. so much of our politics in public life is habit and routine. we are thinking the confines of our politics, the sins of our elites and leaders are simply the way things must be. it takes a group of committed people to courageously call it all into question. to start the crowd murmuring and hooting until eventually everyone can see as if a squich has been flipped that the emperor is indeed naked. you can suddenly see that what is normal is constructed in permanent, even intolerable. once you see the world through that prison, it is very, very difficult to return to complacency. it was near the end of the last century that francis fukiyama wrote a famous book called the end of history where he argued we had reached the end of history. the world had come to a census market democracies were the best
it. i m not worried about weather, rain or shine, i m marching, unemployed rain or shine, they re trying to not give you an extension rain or shine. there s no such thing as a perfect weather day for the unemployed, because every day you re unemployed, it doesn t matter what i m glad to see the caucus out there, but will we see in september the democrats stand up and confront these tea partiers and right wingers in the congress? a lot of people want to see the president stand up, and i do too, but i want to see some of the congressional democrats stand up and take them on, even if you don t have the votes, you certainly have a voice. well, we want everyone to stand up. the president has to stand up in the white house, but we owe it to the american people to stand up in the congress. it s what we ve been doing as democrats. let s separate the good from the bad here. we can t call all of congress
the point of impact was? the geology of the east coast is much more coherent. on the west coast, we re more a pile of junk. on the east coast, it s all melded together in one big, clean thing. so when you hit it, like a piece of metal, you can hear the waves, feel the waves all the way to the edge of the met 58, whereas on the west coast, an earthquake of the same size makes more like a thud. it s felt locally, but not very broadly. does that mean it could have been worse? i mean could it have felt more broad ly, or with more impact? so if it had been bigger, there would have been more