congresswoman has never been shy on the issue before. as a state senator, she sponsored an amendment to minnesota s constitution banning same-sex marriage. she spoke out sharply against homosexuality. she even spoke out about againsting the adjective gay in connection with same-sex orientation. that s how outspoken she was. it s part of satan i think to say it s gay. it s anything but gay. if you re involved in the gay and lesbian lifestyle, it is bondage. it is personal bondage, personal despair, and personal enslavement. claiming that millions of gays and lesbian americans are living in personal bondage or personal despair, personal enslavement, claiming that the very use of the word gay is satanic sounds like personal and judgment, certainly not a fact. she also refers to the gay and lesbian lifestyle by which one can only assume she means it s a choice. bachmann went on to describe it as a mental illness. we need to have profound compassion for people who dealing
he s running for reelection. he s sago owe i m saying he s got a lot of explaining to do about the economy if that s what he s out talking about. i don t think the folks in iowa are going to be real excited about unemployment rate where it is and the number of americans who are out of work. this president has been an ab jekt failure when it comes to the economy. republican candidate michele bachmann s bus will be in dpreenville and spartanburg, south carolina, today. today is the national day of action. latino groups will protest the immigration policies. he s been criticized for the number of undocumented immigrants 1:30 eastern in boston. 2:00 eastern in charlotte and 3:00 eastern in miami. now on to san francisco. bart says the trains are running on normal schedules again. transit officials closed and reopened several downtown stations yesterday to keep protests from getting out of hand. protestors are calling attention to several shootings involving bart polic
the best part of the job is coming to places like this, right here in iowa where you can talk to everybody and everyday americans. there s plenty of fear and anger right here in america s heartland and indeed across the country right now. i sat down with the president just a little while ago for an in depth interview about job, the economy, the 2012 campaign. the war on terror and a lot more. specific about the short-term plans for boosting the economy and how it could make or break his reelection campaign. you said if you don t turn around the economy in three years it s going to be a one-term proposition. do you remember that? when i came into office, i knew i was going to have a big mess to clean up. and frankly, the mess has been bigger than i think a lot of people anticipated at the time. we have made steady progress on these fronts, but we re not making progress fast enough. and what i continue to believe is that ultimately the buck stops with me. a lot of these p
some 5,000 palestinians reportedly fled a u.n. refugee camp. more than 40 people have been killed in two days. those are the headlines from cnn, the world s news leader. world business today starts right now. good morning. from cnn london. i m charles hodson. and very good afternoon from cnn hong kong. i m andrew stevens. you re watching world business today. the top stories this tuesday, august 16th. new signs of slowing growth in europe as leaders of the euro zones top two economies try to restore confidence in the region. google announces its biggest bet. what s in it for the company and what it means for consumers. warren buffett says tax the mega rich. just how much of a difference would that make? we ll crunch the numbers. let s go straight to the market action in europe now where stock exchanges have been open just over an hour. here s how they re performing so far today. we re seeing a selloff, in fact a considerable selloff throwing away the gains that we
isn t this august, not supposed to be a lot going on. don t you wish one day we d say there s nothing going on, go home. change the channel. a lot has to do with the economy, up first president obama talking jobs in the heartland of america. the president is in iowa this morning. no straw polls. no campaigns it s a campaign stop. it s a campaign-style trip through three mid western states. he ll meet with a group of farmers and small business owners today. he s been making his pitch for job growth and sounding a familiar theme that republicans are playing politics with the economy. the problem we have is not with our country. the problem is, that our politics is broken. [ applause ] the problem is, is that we ve got the kind of partisan brinkmanship that is willing to put party ahead of country. that s more interested in seeing their political opponents lose than seeing the country win. well, the president was glad handing after a town hall meeting in iowa, he was c