it s sort of natural that people are ticked off and they tend to focus their eyre on incumbents. it s far too early this is tougher or easier. i don t think president obama, for example, is going to win pennsylvania by 11 points like four years ago, but i think he has an excellent chance of carrying the state, but not by 11 points. well, okay. of course, it is a support right now, according to this poll, in your state there, pennsylvania, less than 50%. why is he losing support there? many of which are not the president s fault. all of the conditions have combined to make a very pessimistic electorate, number one. number two, because i don t think the presses has appeared to be a strong leader. i think when you hold an executive office, what people are looking for, even more than what you do on a specific issue, is can you lead? do you have the ability to bring about the needed changes that
movement encompassing the great majority of the iranian people of different per situations but united in one single key demand which is the freedom to be able to choose for ourselves to elect who we he want, to have the liberty to speak, something that this regime obviously is denying us. it as standoff and a show of solidarity which a lot of people aspired with and in return what recently happened there can combatant be embolding and encouraging to my compatriots. the last few weeks must be poignant for you. your family has been forced from power. mubarak has been good to your family. at the same time the uprisings have failed in tehran. it is an eyre a of people s power. people who have the ultimate voice and have to ultimately decide. if we were to believe in that we have to follow that we have to think in terms of
moving from the left. unite his coalition across the board. plus, republicans block a bill to help cover the health care costs of workers at ground zero. let s get this straight, the party that wrapped itself into the flag after 9/11 now says we don t have the money to help the people who worked at the site of the attacks. and sarah palin takes aim at her republican critics. it s they are impotent, limp and they are weak. wow. we ll find out what s got palin s eyre up in the sideshow. and why obama s tax deal is the second needed economic stimulus. let s begin today with the meeting of the minds at the white house, bill clinton and president obama. the huffington post howard fineman. and mark pennn a longtime adviser and strategyist to both bill and hillary clinton. i couldn t have two better guests than you guys. this is the alliance made by god and the democratic party. you re laughing because there s
you know, in the sense i mean, you could stand way back from the whole situation and say that, well, in the larger sense, the you could argue that it s good for the president to be seen as being attacked from the left as well as from the right, and in positioning himself that way. however, i don t think you could say it s terribly it s a terribly great idea to have aroused such eyre among congressional democrats and essentially blaming them, you know, and pointing the finger overtly at them and saying it s all their fault when they re, in fact, the people who you now expect to vote in support of the deal you just made, so i think that s the that s not going all that well. and, by the way, asked most of them to reverse position to make that deal too. it s really sort of aa three-level thing. the president uses this term. you hear it, and then you go back and say oh, my goodness,
that, well, in the larger sense, the you could argue that it s good for the president to be seen as being attacked from the left as well as from the right, and in positioning himself that way. however, i don t think you could say it s terribly it s a terribly great idea to have aroused such eyre among congressional democrats and essentially blaming them, you know, and pointing the finger overtly at them and saying it s all their fault when they re, in fact, the people who you now expect to vote in support of the deal you just made, so i think that s the that s not going all that well. and, by the way, asked most of them to reverse position to make that deal too. it s really sort of aa three-level thing. the president uses this term. you hear it, and then you go back and say oh, my goodness, why did he say hostage situation? that by itself is going to echo back on him for a long time, and