frustrated because they hire leaders to make things better and now they don t feel that whoever they hire will get them there. what is the dominant feeling or sentiment you hear expressed out there about the president himself? i didn t go through the deep south, which is very red. i also didn t go into urban neighborhoods, which are very blue. i went down diagonally across we have a map we can show. actually, of your trip. oh, really? yes. i want to remember this. but, anyway, people respect him. you don t see the fist-shaking anger that you often see on cable news. certainly there s some obama haters out there. most people respect him but they don t quite admire him. he s floating over this debate and doesn t seem to be part of the things that people are most concerned about. they don t understand what s in the health reform legislation. they don t understand what s in the financial reform regulation. they re beginning to see the stimulus in a different way. because you
haters out there. most people respect him but they don t quite admire him. he s floating over this debate and doesn t seem to be part of the things that people are most concerned about. they don t understand what s in the health reform legislation. they don t understand what s in the financial reform regulation. they re beginning to see the stimulus in a different way. because you can t drive 30 miles in this country without hitting a road crew, and they re feeling better about the auto bailout but they feel that the big issues that we re talking about here, the jobs being expressed overseas, china. they haven t heard from him. for every time someone mentioned afghanistan, the war in afghanistan, which is an issue i ve been obsessed with, they mentioned china 25 times. can i say that i think that the issue, the way i would put it with regard to the president, is a certain off-pointness. the country has consistently
profiling. he promised he would pursue legislation in colorado similar to what arizona s got, which everyone outside of arizona who isn t a proponent of the bill admits is essentially a racial profiling bill. that bill has turned arizona into a civil rights per rye ya. that has turned arizona into a huge battle ground. that bill has also apparently cleaved the republican party right in two. now that the political can of worms labeled draconian immigration legislation has been opened by the great state of arizona, expect a long, bitter, intrarepublican battle on this issue. just in time for democrats to lead a charge, finally, for comprehensive federal immigration reform for the whole country. wow. stay tuned. politics is totally different for the whole rest of the year now. this is a big deal. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 i thought investment firms were there
republican does give a direct answer about the papers please law in arizona, the divide within the republican party on this gets deeper and more public. and it looks like this problem is only going to get worse. both the problem faced by people who don t believe in presuming everyone is illegal unless they can prove otherwise, the problem of the bill itself, but also the problem for republicans who are going to have to now continue to fight each other in public over whether we should presume everyone s illegal unless they can prove otherwise. this is a big political problem. thinkprogress is reporting that legislation similar to the arizona papers please law may be brought up in at least seven other states besides arizona. and if scott mcinnis the front-runner in the colorado governor s race win that s race, can you add colorado to the list as well. as we noted last night, as a u.s. congressman in 2001 mr. mckin is, a, had a mustache, and b, argued favorably of racial
group that helped write the legislation. we introduced you to this group, f.a.i.r., recently. they felt we were unfair in our characterizations of them. in a moment we ll welcome their president to the show to explain. take things as they come? i ve got an idea. or improvise?