before falling to about $900 billion. mitch mcconnell said yesterday that he will offer obama s budget on the senate floor and will predict that it will fail. we will get to the budget later this morning. first, can recent time magazine wealthy orout the risk poor, does it matter for the oval office? you can also send us an e-mail or go to our twitter page. or post your comments on facebook. we already have some comments on our facebook page this morning. let me read one from william. and then above that we want to hear from all of you this morning. how does this impact your votes, if at all? the time magazine piece is about it but history of presidential candidates and their path to the oval office. he says so we want to talk about this with all of new this morning, just get an idea of whether a president has been successful, wealthy, what does that make you think about them? how do you perceive them? richard norton smith is joining us on the phone to talk about the hist
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a conservatism is traditionalism. it s a system of belief that comes out of the wisdom and the experience of the people and the human race. and basically out of natural law, philosophy. what mankind s human nature is like. let me give you one example of that. woodrow wilson said back in 1917, we re going to war to make the world safe for democracy. it was nonsense. we went to war because our ships were being sunk by the germans and that s what got us into the war. the british empire, the russian empire and the japanese empire. and italy, which wanted shares of the austrian hungarian empire and romania which wanted to carve out part of hungary. none were going to war for democracy and the idea that the united states could bring democracy to the world was preposterous and in that world we lost 116,000 dead. and, of course, that war ushered in hitler, stalin and mussolini. and the idea that we can create democracy worldwide or something like that, it is a belief system that s no