be consistently weaving in his jabs at contenders now? absolutely. he s going around the country doing this jobs tour to promote his jobs package. make no mistake, a lot of it is politically aimed and motivated. you ve seen him go to a number of states where his biggest republican rivals are based. this coming tuesday, he goes to texas. home of rick perry. last week he went up to the west coast to raise money for his campaign and he s first started this sort of line of criticism saying that as you just heard, that the republican candidates are not stepping up against the value kind of issues that he says americans stand for which is to boo, they re boo ing this kind of statement from a gay soldier in iraq and he says, very strongly, a command ner chief needs to stand up to that. he s trying to set a bar which differentiates the democrats and the republicans as we go forward. let face it, right now it s all about jobs, though, for so many. the president was talking about that certain
it is tempting. you could be president. that s big. that sounds like someone is dabbling, that s for sure. there is a big speech at the reagan presidential library tonight. republican fund-raisers across the country this week and word from friend and the former new jersey governor tom keane that christie is now seriously considering a late entry into the gop race. here is tonight s truth. he isn t running. and while he s listening closely, very closely, to friends and fund-raisers begging him to reconsider, the best bet is that governor christie stays on the sidelines. why? well, for starters, the governor s greatest strength as a politician is he s viewed as a straight shooter, a guy who calls it like he sees it. and this is how he sees himself. i don t feel like i m ready to be president. i don t want to run for president. i don t have the fire in the belly to run for president. so i say take the governor at his word, especially when he adds this. you know, short
live in poverty. rachel, i have to say, the reason i formed the out of poverty caucus when the bush administration was in because i knew then the bush administration policies and these wars would lead to where we are today unfortunately. so we have 39 members of the out of poverty caucus. we ve been working with the white house on our out of poverty agenda. and our jobs agenda. because clearly the best pathway out of poverty is a job. so that s what we re working on and i think that the president has heard us and i m very proud of congresswoman waters and chairman cleburne in the congressional black caucus. when you look at what took place in august with the black caucus, five cities, a jobs tour. what we did was get the jobs debate on the agenda where now the president has the space and the wherewithal to be able to use his platform, the bully pulpit to say, look, we have to work together to create jobs. congresswoman barbara lee, democrat of california. i want to thank you very muc
rachel, i have to say, the reason i formed the out of poverty caucus when the bush administration was in because i knew then the bush administration policies and these wars would lead to where we are today unfortunately. so we have 39 members of the out of poverty caucus. we ve been working with the white house on our out of poverty agenda. and our jobs agenda. because clearly the best pathway out of poverty is a job. so that s what we re working on and i think that the president has heard us and i m very proud of congresswoman waters and chairman cleburne in the congressional black caucus. when you look at what took place in august with the black caucus, five cities, a jobs tour. what we did was get the jobs debate on the agenda where now the president has the space and the wherewithal to be able to use his platform, the bully pulpit to say, look, we have to work together to create jobs. congresswoman barbara lee, democrat of california. i want to thank you very much for your work o
want to win it again. and in fact, that and north carolina and several of the other states that are swing states that he won last time are on the cusp this time and he also has a problem, we ve seen the congressional black caucus jobs tour, the comments from maxine waters and a few others and then this interview that just took place with tb.e.t. he asked him a question. if i m a scone-year-old kid, on the south side of chicago and my dad s gone and my mom s working ten hours a day for peanuts and you will say emmitt, that s not what people are saying. what people are saying all across the country is we re hurting and we ve been hurting for a long time. and the other thing, that you don t slip in there that african-american leaders have been critical. there have been a handful of african-american leaders who