tough decisions because they roux fuse to make the tough decisions the last 1515 or 20 year. so chip, you disagree with steve? i do. if the government gets into this it will never stop because the local leaders won t make the tough decisions if they think the federal government is going to bail them out. look at this one. the federal government spent $80 billion on the auto bailout. detroit is $18. ,in debt. when you look at this is the president in a tough position? some asking what is good for the goose is good for the gander? i think the first thing we need to highlight is no one is asking for a bailout right now. the president isn t offering one. what we are doing is a lot of speculation and conjecture. i think what is happening in detroit, though, we should be talking about is that this is emblem mattic of what is happening a philosophy that is abandoning poor people. that has this kind of sense of let s blame poor people and,
issues. it s not something that he cares a lot about, that he s particularly interested in. what really struck me in this regard was when he was talking about his own iran policy and speaking to george sthe forgot and messed up his own iran foreign policy. lots of candidates don t write their own foreign policy briefing notes, but he didn t even seem to read him own. that s emblem mattic for a problem for the governor that will show up in the debate. do you think the winner here will be the person, the candidate that coming up with more substance on these issues or is able to make these ideas, which are not often talked about the economy being the top issue right now, the candidate that can really make it tangible, as i was discussing at the top of the show? i don t think there s always a strong relationship between the candidate who speaks with the greatest depth about these issues and the one that comes
we don t know whether this is by suicide or not, is really emblem mattic with the problem of guantanamo at least according to the critics. this is going to remind people of president obama s now virtually abandoned pledge to shut down guantanamo. anan latif, the yemeni detainee found dead, unconscious in his cell on saturday, had been actually ordered to have been released by a federal judge in 2010. federal judge henry kennedy who ruled that the government s evidence against him was unconvincing, that his account, that he had gone to suffered a brain injury in yemen, gone to pakistan for free medical attention was credible, and he got turned over by pakistani police to the u.s. military. there was no reason to continue holding him according to the judge. the obama administration appealed that ruling, because at that point it did not want to