in fact with independent voters. you know they re coming from high places in washington. the gallup poll said we re leading in washington, we care about families, what is happening tooy society. i do get the questions, as john king tried to do on contraception and other things that are outrageous questions, and then the neck question is why are you talking so much about social issues? they ask and then they say, you re talking about social issues all the time. look, i understand the game. and we re just going to go out and continue to stay on message about what we re going to do to make this country more prosperous, build up a strong foundation of our country, which clearly is, as i talked about before, we have to do something to help strengthen the american family, and i m going to continue to talk about those things. thanks very much. good to see you. you got the microphone here. back to you, anderson. john king is on the stage with ron paul. john? anderson, to resp
watercooler? one thing i found fascinating is partly it s the sensibility that she s describing, this sensibility that has resulted in actually relative dirth of these women in prominent roles. a lot of social conservatives see that as a serious problem. again, people who embrace this traditional role oftentimes will kind of remove themselves from public life before they get to the point where they re actually making this case, which is part of why definitional. a numb oer of other figures became so galvanized. we have a republican woman we want to weigh in on this after the break.
care about. the panama canal zone debate was about sovereignty. we ll give up florida next. similarly, this is about who we are, what are our values and who are our friend and how do we treat our friends. that s the other thing that s fascinating is that not just panama canal but the sort of continuation of much bush-era foreign policy initiatives in the obama administration. just the fact that iraq is now fairly consensus what we re doing there, afghanistan similarly, has taken a lot of issues that could have been definitional in the campaign off the table. it is very hard to know unless you re going to sort of argue for a much more accelerated draw down of afghanistan or iraq. it is hard for the gop field to really differentiate because in the past they ve supported quite similar policies. israel is ort of left on the table as a way to get around the obama administration. and even that, even that being played as a wedge issue, we have rick perry was banging the drum on it in ne
as it s. how concrete it s going to be. well, and i was told that they are actually still working on it, david. they are also playing this very bold. but what is definitional is the question about how liberals approach the budget. they have been disappointed in barack obama and they thought he was a liberal. in this context of deficit reduction, the american public believes that it s the second most important issue out there, next to the economic recovery. so how are they going to approach deficit reduction in the future and that s what barack obama can help to define. gloria borger, david, thank you. we ll digest this thoroughly when the president releases his statement, his speech on trying to reduce the national debt. people are wondering why he had to wait until the republicans came out with their own plan.
radicalization of islam has generated and spawned all sorts of horrific behavior. i have been over the years very clear about that. the brush with which she paints, though, when she said and i don t have my new york times, but she said she she did she was quoted on the front page of the new york times directly saying cia, fbi, state department, dod, everybody s infiltrating, making enormous claims without any factual support. as you know through your investigations, there are a lot of time i ve got to say she is a woman with a lot of connections. you know that there are a lot of investigation that s go on in the wait a minute. she couldn t give us a single she gave you a name. she couldn t give us a single date to substantiate these look the issue is not is there radical islam. of course there is. the point is do you create venom and direct it toward an entire religion? the question as i keep falling back on this definitional aspect what is rad