played golf with president obama? oh, yeah. yeah. and biden and casic. yeah. what did you not like about it? it seems to be a real pivotal moment for you. come on. come on. it would be like hitler playing golf with netanyahu. okay? do you agree that hank williams jr. should have been eck fired for equating president obama with hit lerks the killer of 6 million jews and countless other american troops and soldiers and civilians during world war ii? lawrence, he didn t call president obama by name, first of all. and secondly, that was a poor choice of words. and thirdly, that was the decision of the network as to whether to fire him or not. okay? that s all i have to say about that. would you fire it was the network s decision and it would you fire anyone on your campaign who said that sentence? if someone in my campaign were to exercise a poor choice
they were to win it would be appropriate for her to be sworn in. steve, did you partii veteever that in a presidential campaign. well, first off, it s a great book. nicole s a talented writer. and i ll plug it for her. people should go read it. it s really a fascinating look behind the scenes, of course, of a fictional account. look, lawrence, during the campaign after the economy collapsed we were essentially out of it. we were never closer than six or seven points again. but if the question is did all of us and a bunch of us who had been around the west wing of the white house, did we see behavior that we found deeply troubling? and the answer to that question is yes, we did. did we talk about it? yes, we did. you know, was there, you know, legal considerations? no, there were not. but did we talk about a pattern of behavior that we found troubling during the campaign? of course we did. well, let s talk about what s
here again, lawrence, you are distorting the intent of what i said. i was a high school student. the college students were doing the sit-ins. the college students were doing the freedom rides. if i had been a college student, i probably would have been participating. but if you re a high school student in the 10th or 11th grade, you re under 18 years of age, you didn t need to get arrested and be in the middle of that. that was the intent of what i said relative to me not being involved. now, i was impacted by that on a daily basis simply because i was living in atlanta, georgia when all of this was going on. it was not prudent. this is what my dad meant. it was not prudent for a high school student to be in the middle of what was going on in terms of those demonstrations. and thanks to rosa parks, yes, she struck a chord with a lot of people that helped to lead to the desegregation of the buses as well as she was a big part of the whole civil rights movement. and we are all very grate
do to win the nomination. i have not spent a lot of time analyzing all of governor romney s past positions or all of his current positions. i have not spent a lot of time ienldsing all of governor perry s past positions and only briefly have i looked at some of his current positions. so what i m saying is it is totally premature for me to say definitively one way or another whether i could or could not because my focus is on winning the republican nomination for president. [ applause ] mr. cain, you ve said that if you re unemployed and if you re poor blame yourself. would you like to retract that now? would you like to say to the millions of unemployed in this country the fact that they do not have jobs, that this economy has shrunk is not their fault and you apologize for saying that about them? lawrence, some people are unemployed for no fault of their own. i was referring to those people who have chosen to go and demonstrate on wall street for whatever reason and it s not
you mean when john boehner played golf with president obama? oh, yeah. yeah. and biden and casic. yeah. what did you not like about it? it seems to be a real pivotal moment for you. come on. come on. it would be like hitler playing golf with netanyahu. okay? do you agree that hank williams jr. should have been eck fired for equating president obama with hit lerks the killer of 6 million jews and countless other american troops and soldiers and civilians during world war ii? lawrence, he didn t call president obama by name, first of all. and secondly, that was a poor choice of words. and thirdly, that was the decision of the network as to whether to fire him or not. okay? that s all i have to say about that. would you fire it was the network s decision and it would you fire anyone on your campaign who said that sentence? if someone in my campaign