to tell people what i believe. my cabinet is diverse. the people who walk into the oval office and say, mr. president, you re not looking so good today, they are diverse. and i m better off for it. that s good line. but it wasn t just a good line there. in the 2000 election, bush s campaign book, renewing america s purpose a collection of his speeches on different policy topic, begins, opens with an education speech to the latin business association answered starts that speech by talking about the latino economic miracle. in the whole book, which goes for hundreds and hundreds of pages, bush never writes a word illegal immigrant or any variant there of. the one speech about immigration in the book about making the immigration and naturalization service a kinder, gentler agency. the problem, bush says is new immigrants are treated as suspects and strangers not welcomed as neighbors. later in bush s presidency, woe attempt to pass an immigration
fighting for third. in the 19th debate of the season and the last before florida votes next tuesday, the front-runners tangled over investments and campaign rhetoric. much more in fair game. a day after the captain admitted that he made a mistake and wrecked the ship, $14,000 is being offered to the passengers. but this ordeal is far from over. a 16th body was recovered on tuesday while another 16 passengers are still missing. the rescue operations chief says crews are trying to open up new passages so rescuers can access more areas. a surreal experience to be condemned to die. those were the ominous words of joshua komisarjevsky before a judge sentenced him to death less than two hours ago. he was convicted in october for brutally raping and killing three people and dr. william petit managed to escape from the basement. he said, i miss my entire family. i had 26 years with jennifer, 17 with haley and 11 with michaela. we were robbed of this for what? money. we will hear
presidency and he s actually said there is absolutely no way that he s going to run in 2012 but he has received a lot of attention. he was in iowa giving a high profile education speech on monday. as you just mentioned, the governor s office says that it s mostly or probably asthma-related, and he is in the hospital for precautionary reasons, taking tests. just by the way, a spokesperson says the governor is fine at this point. i just want to be clear here. it doesn t look like there s serious consequences for this little scare. absolutely. but one other piece of context, it was just a couple days ago that mitt romney had it floated out at a republican fund-raiser that he was attending that chris christie, along with virginia governor and florida senator rubio would be on any republican nominee s vice presidential short list. chris christie has been on the news for a lot of 2012 related things in the last few days. there is some speculation, that s why he s even doing the
republican field for the presidency and he s actually said there is absolutely no way that he s going to run in 2012 but he has received a lot of attention. he was in iowa giving a high profile education speech on monday. as you just mentioned, the governor s office says that it s mostly or probably asthma-related, and he is in the hospital for precautionary reasons, taking tests. just by the way, a spokesperson says the governor is fine at this point. i just want to be clear here. it doesn t look like there s serious consequences for this little scare. absolutely. but one other piece of context, it was just a couple days ago that mitt romney had it floated out at a republican fund-raiser that he was attending that chris christie, along with virginia governor and florida senator rubio would be on any republican nominee s vice presidential short list. chris christie has been on the news for a lot of 2012 related things in the last few days. there is some speculation, that s why he
that has not always been the president s forte. if you look at after fort hood and that speech, which i liked. the speech was well crafted and fully appropriate to the moment. the president delivered it like it was an education speech. there really wasn t a wet eye in the house. i think in a moment like this you have to speak for it, you have to summarize and somehow embody the emotions of the nation. not just say the right words. and, that is a challenge for this president, who can be eloquent, but often not emotional. bill: michael gerson, thanks. appreciate your in sight. martha? martha: and, looking at the topic in a moment here, you want to keep your kids off drugs of course but one public school, is it going too far? what they want from the parents and what happens if mom and dad don t follow the orders from the school? bill: he danielsed the cha cced