we re still paying a price for. and of course, wall street running wild. and now this president gathers the economy and what he has done over the last 35 months of private sector job growth. but was the president s speech proof positive that the mainstream in america is left of center? i think we ve seen the left center emerge over the last years, ed, but too often the media doesn t pay attention to it. survey after survey shows americans want to see defense cut instead of social programs. they want to see higher taxes on the very rich as opposed to cuts in social programs. that majority, that view has been there. and i think president obama, with the wind at his back of a rising american majority, of a new coalition in this country has seized that energy and is moving with it and understands in the speech he spoke of we, we the citizens invoking the greatest documents of our
was ate benchmark turning point for america, or was it an exclamation point of everything that has transpired in this country? i mean we went through the clinton years. we had economic growth. we went through the bush years. we had exploding deficits, international intervention that we re still paying a price for. and of course, wall street running wild. and now this president gathers the economy and what he has done over the last 35 months of private sector job growth. but was the president s speech proof positive that the mainstream in america is left of center? i think we ve seen the left center emerge over the last years, ed, but too often the media doesn t pay attention to it. survey after survey shows americans want to see defense cut instead of social programs. they want to see higher taxes on the very rich as opposed to cuts in social programs. that majority, that view has been there. and i think president obama, with the wind at his back of a rising american majority, of a
center left emerging majority. was ate benchmark turning point for america, or was it an exclamation point of everything that has transpired in this country? i mean we went through the clinton years. we had economic growth. we went through the bush years. we had exploding deficits, international intervention that we re still paying a price for. and of course, wall street running wild. and now this president gathers the economy and what he has done over the last 35 months of private sector job growth. but was the president s speech proof positive that the mainstream in america is left of center? i think we ve seen the left center emerge over the last years, ed, but too often the media doesn t pay attention to it. survey after survey shows americans want to see defense cut instead of social programs. they want to see higher taxes on the very rich as opposed to cuts in social programs. that majority, that view has been there. and i think president obama, with the wind at his back of a
the defense budget. i shouldn t say cut dismantle the military. this is more than cutting the budget. he wants to dismantle the military just like western europe did theirs. so get a defense secretary to preside over defense cuts, the result of the cuts is the dismantling of the military in order to pay for a growing welfare state. so inside that madness there is an interesting point. if you are going to do a defense cut it is helpful to have a defense secretary who is a war
the military. this is more than cutting the budget. he wants to dismantle the military just like western europe did theirs. so get a defense secretary to preside over defense cuts, the result of the cuts is the dismantling of the military in order to pay for a growing welfare state. so inside that madness there is an interesting point. if you are going to do a defense cut it is heis helpful to have defense secretary who is a war veteran and a combat hero. somebody who is popular with the troops. so he has a credibility with the men and women with the members