that was not self-centered and it was not based on division but on unification. i do want to chime in on this. there was a great difference between nelson mandela and dr. king, which i ll get to in one second. our two countries were going on divergent paths. apartheid is not that old. it came in in 1948 with the national party. at the same time, america was moving toward civil rights, toward the brown versus the board of education was a few years later. he realized south africa was on the wrong side of history. but he also realized, when he came out, he had to repair the breach. part of the reason he never showed his bitterness, which he did have, was that he knew he had to reconcile white and black for a new south africa. the white business center was the engine of prosperity for africa. south africa couldn t survive without them, he knew that. and that was one reason he never showed the anger or bitterness. the 1986 decision for
he was actually there s no real campaign behind cain. it s all cain. my guess is, they were trying to make a bit of an outlaw video, because again, the whole thing is anti-establishment. he had a kid with a video camera, he had a campaign manager with a little time to kill, often trouble. didn t help. the issue, too, before we button this part of it, up on taxes, governor granholm, is that you have a very clear distinction here. and the washington post wrote about it on wednesday, divergent paths within the republican party on how they want to handle tax policy. the headline this week, gop tax plans on divergent paths. at the moment, wrote although the republican candidates differ on the spebs of their plans, the frame of the argument against the current white house occupant is the same. obama maintains the rich are not paying their share of taxes. the gop counter wealthy americans along with everyone else is paying too much. what s bloated, they insist, is the government. th
there s no real campaign behind cain. it s all cain. my guess is, they were trying to make a bit of an outlaw video, because again, the whole thing is anti-establishment. he had a kid with a video camera, he had a campaign manager with a little time to kill, often trouble. didn t help. the issue, too, before we button this part of it, up on taxes, governor granholm, is that you have a very clear distinction here. and the washington post wrote about it on wednesday, divergent paths within the republican party on how they want to handle tax policy. the headline this week, gop tax plans on divergent paths. at the moment, wrote although the republican candidates differ on the spebs of their plans, the frame of the argument against the current white house occupant is the same. obama maintains the rich are not paying their share of taxes. the gop counter wealthy americans along with everyone else is paying too much. what s bloated, they insist, is the government. there s the debate.
plans on divergent paths. at the moment, wrote although the republican candidates differ on the specifics of their plans, the frame of the argument against the current white house occupant is the same. obama maintains the rich are not paying their share of taxes. the gop counter wealthy americans along with everyone else is paying too much. what s bloated, they insist, is the government. there s the debate. so this, to me, is driving me absolutely crazy. this income inequality issue, which the president is trying to get at with the buffett rule, it s not going to take care of it all. but 80% of the revenue growth, of the growth in income went to the top 1% over the past 30 years. 80%. we are seeing a level of income disparity that we haven t seen since the gilded age. is so this is what is going to be, i think, the nub of an issue about tax policy. what s the tax policy that s going to create jobs in america, and that s going to provide middle-class jobs here, rather
the country will not have enough money to pay all of its bills. tough decision also have to be made. the stakes right now are enormous. the president will lay out his case within a minute or so. two minutes after the president features finishes what s expected to be about a 15-minute speech to the nation, two minutes after that, we ll hear a separate speech from the house speakeren. boehner. he s up on capitol hill. he ll make his case why the president right now is wrong. why the republicans are right. both of them presumably will say the stakes for the united states are enormous right now and the country must do everything possible. everything possible to avoid default. they ve been negotiating publicly and privately now for weeks and weeks and weeks. and unfortunately, for the country and indeed, for much of the world, unfortunately, the negotiations collapsed over the past few days. still possible, they might be able to work out a deal. the stakes are enormous and you