i have some sympathy for him. obviously his religious heritage and belief are important to him, a central part of his life, but can t talk about it politically, feels he can t talk about it. now he is in this situation today, who is the more likeable candidate, barack obama or mitt romney, it is 62-30, obama. romney is just getting slayed on this likability question. that suggests he has to do something to tell people something about himself, his biography. he has to tell more of the story who he is. this is the time between capturing the nomination and convention, at the convention you give the big speech and all that stuff, so he has to do that, but is he going to tell that part of the story? yeah. in fact, we ll talk later in the show about the part of the story leaking about his past that he may not want to talk about. thank you, janny scott. i feel like having you here is a gift to my mom for mother s day.
happy mother s day. thank you. as well to you. i want to start with you. tell me about your story. want folks to have an understanding, when we say mothers in jail, in prison, what we re talking about and facing here. all right. so in 1994, i gave birth to my son, last son, ky in prison. i was shackled and handcuffed during birth and delivery in transport to and from the prison. and i believe at that time i understood why i was in prison. i was there for a parole violation, but i just could not understand during my labor and delivery why i had to be shackled and handcuffed. i want to pause so folks understand. these were nonviolent crimes, crimes related to drugs, this was parole, this was not about some kind of violent crime. but melissa, it doesn t matter. it doesn t matter. childbirth is the most sacred act that we re offered. we celebrate mother s day because of that. i think that regardless of what
something we all discussed or considered. so that s simply just not accurate. i don t recall the incident myself, but i have seen the reports, and not going to argue with that. there s no question, i did some stupid things in high school. obviously if i hurt anyone by virtue of that, i would be very sorry for it and apologize for it. i just want to briefly recall that presidents, people running for president, candidates do bad things in their past. i just want to compare what we heard mitt romney say to what george w. bush said as a candidate on the republican ticket on november 2nd, 2000, a couple days before the election when his dui came out. here is how later president bush handled it. there s a report out tonight that 24 years ago i was apprehended in ken bunk port, maine for dui. that s an accurate story. i m not proud of that.
i don t think it will be that tricky. it will make for interesting commercials by joe man chen i bet. i want us to focus on the idea that we have a question of how important is an executive on leadership. so you said okay, here we are in sydney, people say the leader of the free world, but many pro-life presidents, except for judicial nominations made little attempt to change access to reproductive rights. how much difference does it actually make who is in the white house on this question? there s a difference between power and influence, what we saw obama do this week was exercise his influence, rather than his power. i have been hearing from the lgbt community how it was a personal affirmation, affirmed his personal belief and didn t take any concrete steps. i think it was still, it may have been symbolic, but i think it was still hugely important. obama of all the recent
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