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Welcome. Im Bob Abernethy and this is our look ahead at the top religion stories we expect to be covering in 2013. We do this with the help of kim lawton, managing editor of this program, Kevin Eckstrom, editor in chief of Religion News service, and e. J. Dionne, a senior fellow at the brookings institution, a professor at Georgetown University and a columnist for the washington post. Welcome to you all. One of the big events of the new year will be the inauguration of barack obama to a second term, so we asked a wide variety of religion leaders what they hope for during the president s next term. If president obama would revert back to the, that young, powerful, firey spokesperson in the 2004 Democratic National convention who talked about reconciling the blue and the red state, about the god of the blue state and the god of the red state that i believe that he has a chance to really emerge as a transformative catalytic president reconciling our nation. We are more polarized today tha
Was Holding Court for 30 some years. Years and iere 36 have been there nine. I have been there every year since he passed away. By the time i catch him come i will be am a 60. [laughter] , i haveelieve that [indiscernible] mike is on the way over to brooklyn. Tavis you love that room. I was honored to be asked to do that. Know, i got a call that bobby had passed away. He always did that holiday season. Now i am doing what he also did. He would come back in may for a couple of weeks every year. He used to play the holidays and new years eve and come back in may. I am flattered and honored to have had that gave all this time. Tavis what is it specifically about the writing of sammy kohn that turns you on as an artist . He said that he wrote words that sang. There is something to that. It is poetry, but it is poetry that sings. My friend burt bacharach, we are l david, two. Ha bert would always tell me how the words hit the notes that he was writing. I do know. Theres just some talent tha
We have a lucky severson story today on some of the voices saying the problem is economic, social, political and theological, too. London tatum with her 4yearold daughter julianna at a campus daycare center. Shes finishing her bachelors degree at the university of massachusetts in amherst but she has concerns about the future. Education is really important, but its kind of where do you go from here. I feel like its kind of like hopelessness. Tom juravich is profferer in massachusetts writing about workers in the American Workplace for over 25 years. His most recent book is about the struggling working class. We have this notion called the American Dream. The dream has been for so many of us, that life would be better for our children. My dad was a factory worker, sent his three kids to state universities. We all went forward never to look back. What do you think about the American Dream. Its a nightmare, a distraction, dream, fantasy. Its not realistic. Its not realistic, she says, bec
Park foundation, dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The colbert foundation. Barbara g. Fleischman. And by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Welcome. Its been six years this summer, believe it or not, but ill bet you remember how disastrous the financial meltdown was in 2008, how scared we were and angry at the banking industrys blatant negligence, arrogance and greed. And remember all the guilty ceos who went to jail for their own doing . Yeah, neither do i. But maybe you do remember our broadcast last week on which the nobel prizewinning economist joseph dignit compared how the government responded during the financial crash to the police molly coddling a drunk driver. What we did was analogous to we take the perpetrator, the guy who was the drunk driver, to the hospital, but we leave the guy thats been hit on the street. And then we say, oh, b