chamber of commerce now. because they could sure use the help. that s amazing. amazing. that was fox news glenn beck today encouraging his listeners to fork over their own hard-earned cash to give it to the chamber of commerce, to promote the outsourcing of american jobs, asking regular americans who presumably get pink checks and stuff to help out the poor corporate titans because because, you know, why not. obama, boo!ç earlier this week we spoke with democratic pollster celinda lake. this is her issue. this is an issue that is a good october surprise for the october democrats and the progressives. it s a way of really raising the fundamental questions of whose side you re on. this is a great issue to unite voters o of all kinds, democratic leaning union workers
works is if this is an afghan-led process. if karzai and others in the afghan government can actually facilitate a power-sharing deal. if it s seen to be something that we execute ourselves, it may not sustain itself, and at the end of the day, all of the parties have got to agree to it. i think the news reports in the wall street journal and the new york times you re talking about allude to a nato official says the u.s. has facilitated some travel. a lot of this has happened before, too, in places like saudi arabia. there have been talks for years, and i think we need to wait to see if there s more there in terms of whether there s a sustainable agreement here. right. and one of the things i know that you have worked on and studied is the connection between the war effort and americans feelings about the war. right. if this is the way the war ends, either in the short term, 5 term, or, god forbid, the long term, tell us how it plays out here.
elections based@-9juáhqtup&ity of all americans, gay or straight. an i wonder where you stand on don t ask, don t tell. my question is you as the president can sort of have an executive order that ends it once and for all as truman did for the integration. i wonder why don t you do that if this is a policy that you re committed to ending? first of all i haven t mentioned that i m against don t ask, don t tell. i ve said very clearly including in a state of the union address that i m against don t ask, don t tell. we re going to end that policy. that s point number one. point number two, the difference between my position right now and harry truman s was that congress explicitly passed a law that took away the power of the executive branch to end this policy unilaterally. so this is not a situation in which with a stroke of the pen i can simply end a policy.
down. but we re going to allow others to come in and appear as friends of the court and argue for its constitutionality. but we re going to say what we honestly think. and think that s an option that will be open to the administration at some point in the briefing process, and, indeed, once the president has said with some support from the military that he believes that it undermines the military to have 14,000 service men and women who have been separated from service since this don t ask, don t tell went into effect in 1993, 14,000 people we ve lost their services including skilled linguists and technicians and weapons experts, that doesn t advance military any more than it has substantial effect on the liberty of individual americans without advancing a governmental goal is
we installeded ten years later that government make as deal with the taliban. how does that play out here among the american public? well, thing the key factor, number one, is done the american public perceive we re safer as a result of all these actions? we re in afghanistan because of the 9/11 attacks, and i think if through ice a sense that we actually degraded al qaeda and others, i think if we passed e theest i think we have passed the test when you hear 50 to 100 al qaeda representatives perhaps in afghanistan then beyond that oochz, think there s this issue of most americans today, sadly, i think, are disconnected from these wars. know you were out in afghanistan earlier this summer. the burden of these wars are actually being borne mostly by the troops, other people serving in the u.s. government and their families. that s a very narrow slice of the american public and because we re financing this war and all of the wars on borrowed money, most americans don t feel the fi