walter reed or bethesda or iraq or gitmo, i go hoping that i can encourage them. i m the one that i walk away being inspired, being touched, being amazed by the sacrifice of what they give. it was not unusual when i was in iraq and the base that i was on there was 8,000 troops and i would stop and shake hands with everyone i met and say thank you for serving and they would look at me with this dumb founded look and say i love what i do, it is my job. and character of the men and women serving in our military, it they are some amazin amazinn and women. there isn t anything that i wouldn t do for them and their families. for those that have military folks in our lives. we all know some family connected in some way. what is the best thing we can do to help military families if shelters have one everyone serving. one of the organizations i work with is move america forward and we send care
what it is, is a movement that says that we want to get back to common sense and civility and common ground and statesmanship matters and that people want to see the elected officials put the nation before the party. they want us to compromise and get things done to move america forward to get us back to work, and i think that is what this is all about. it is a conversation that we should be having in our kitchens, in our neighborhoods and in our cities and all across the nation. and are you planning to endorse candidates? are you planning to look forward to 2012 and endorse presidential candidates? i don t know that this is so much about endorsing candidates. i am a democrat, and i m a progressive democrat, but what it is, is that we want the country to move forward. look, the nation is evenly divided. we just had elections, and there are consequences to that. many people are criticizing
out. he s trying to turn it around and get folks who are supporting his agenda to vote. the problem is they don t think he went far enough left. greta: two-part question it seems like the house of a measurement of so much in this. if the house does go to the republican party, what does the president say the next day? if the house stays with the democratic majority what does the president say the next day? when the house goes to the republican party he s going to come out and saypeople have spo. i will work together with this new congress to try to move america forward. he ll say all the right things. and my concern is he ll do all the wrong things. that he will give lip service to this and then go back to what he s been doing over these last few days. going out and speaking on al sharpton s show and talking to a group of latinos and talking to young people and using words like punishing our enemies and using very harsh tones to sort of castigate the
out. he s trying to turn it around and get folks who are supporting his agenda to vote. the problem is they don t think he went far enough left. greta: two-part question it seems like the house of a measurement of so much in this. if the house does go to the republican party, what does the president say the next day? if the house stays with the democratic majority what does the president say the next day? when the house goes to the republican party he s going to come out and say the american people have spoken. i will work together with this new congress to try to move america forward. he ll say all the right things. and my concern is he ll do all the wrong things. that he will give lip service to this and then go back to what he s been doing over these last few days. going out and speaking on al sharpton s show and talking to a group of latinos and talking to young people and using words like punishing our enemies and using very harsh tones to sort of castigate the
through no fault of their own. and what the president has done since day one is to try to lay a new foundation to move america forward. but it takes time. we re not nearly where we want to be. but we have certainly made a lot of progress. and we want to continue on that very positive trajectory. but the fact that people are frustrated and angered, we completely understand because of what happened before the president came in. it s going to take some time. and people want to have an immediate turnaround. and it is clear it s going to take some time, but we are moving in the right direction. why do you think the majority of people when asked that the president fell short of their expectations? simply is it a matter of expectation being too high for what the president can actually accomplish and change in just two years? well, i think people are frustrated because the meltdown that kurd actually, to start with, many people were suffering even before this last economic crisis. so aft