fear. but as sendak write, even a ruler needs love and dinner. so despite protests, max leaves the forest and returns home to his mom, real life. back at home, he finds that the dinner he was initially denied is waiting for him. and it s still hot. maurice sendak said, i don t write books for children, i write them for myself and childrapchildren s books are th les than most of us receive in civic education on how to be a part of democracy and about becoming a fully participating person. he taught us to embrace the things that others tell us to fear and to participate in the wild rumpus of life. for that, he is our foot soldier of the week. and that is our show for today. thank you to our panel for sticking around. thanks to you at home for watching. see you tomorrow morning at 10:00 a.m. coming up, weekends with alex witt.
lately, i have found myself thinking about life in four-year stretches. and let s just say that not everybody has achieved in the last four years as you have. but that is a theme for another day. but two observations. first even though job opportunities are scarce in this economy, it is not for nothing that you have spent this time preparing. jerry falwell sr. long determined that you don t determine a man s greatness by the talent or the wealth as the world does, but rather what it takes to discourage him. america needs your talent and skill. if we take the right course, i am convinced that we are going to see a resurgence in the american e kconomy that will surprise the world and that will open up new doors of opportunity for those who are as prepared as you are. of course that is mitt romney at
and they introduced the 99 or mean, and after that, i am not sure what they accomplished. and what they are about is debated because nobody here is from occupy which is confusing, but for me, they introduced 99% and talked about the way to disparity and got it into the conversation politically. yes, absolutely. but what has not happened is that is the part of the dialogue around the kitchen tables constantly and breaking it down. for me who feels they m pretty informed about life, any time we talk about any of this stuff, my head, and you say derivative and my brain goes and glazes and i feel like i m not smart enough and there is never anybody who has laid out to me, and to the most important part of this is that what are the legal things that the banks are doing that they are not incriminated and if every american knew what was in this tax code that allowed these
nelsons and the biggest problem of the moderates and the liberals is that you were voting against the democratic bills for the most of the times, but what i don t understand in the metascope of things, what kind of life allows you to run for political office saying i will not compromise. is compromise removed from your life somehow? because it is impossible to live in a world if you are a husband or sister or employed or elected to the member as a congressm mm or to the u.s. senate, and if your can life has been reduced to that, it is a problem. you have to compromise and that is part of the political process, but the challenge is the tone of the conversation which is reaching an all-time high for meanness and tone deafness on both sides of the aisle with regards to the other. and if we had a historian at the table, and every time we say that and a contemporary pundit says it is the worst it has ever
economic and the social and them family issues that the president has been extremely good on the policy issues up to this moment, and that this is in certain ways a capstone. so talk to me about the broader agenda. well, look, gay people want what all people want. we want it all. we want to be able to protect our families and hold a job. we want our schools to be safe. we want our seniors to have support. i mean, people should not have to choose between which slice of their life matters especially when the one that is pushing the discrimination is the government. the reason that the marriage discussion is so powerful and so central is not because marriage is the only thing that matters, but it is because of the vocabulary of con e ne connectiveness and love of people and family and because the president and the vice president showed so powerfully rethink their understanding of who gay people are. it is a vocabulary of connectiveness itself that enables people to then understand that