steadily. as you see here. up 13 points since 2005. and the president s got these accomplishments already in the can, if you will. he did sign the major health care reform bill which had. fought for for 100 years. he did end two wars in iraq and afghanistan and he has presided, we all know this, the american shift on the issue of marriage and marriage equality. the president has had the benefit of good timing, of course. the country has seem primed for a change. even as a candidate, obama knew the importance of a leader seizing the moment. i don t want to present myself as some sort of singular figure. i think part of what s different are the times. i do think that, for example, the 1980 election was different. i mean, i think ronald reagan changed the trajectory of america in a way that, you know, richard nixon did not. and in a way that bill clinton did not. he he put us on a fundamentally different path
that particular impetus is gone. and he had become a larger than life figure. i mean calling him a robin hood of his movement doesn t even approach what he had become to some people. he was this singular figure who was able to thumb his nose at the united states and really the rest of the civilized world and pull off these attacks and then gloat about them. remember, much of the recruiting for al-qaeda was done and the drop was for 11, 12 and 13-year-old boys. that target population where someone like a semblance of evil like this man would draw potential terrorists into his web so they could be trained by al-qaeda to perform some of the things and that will be
that really move great movements of this country. she commanded attention in our national politics like no one else. a singular figure. love her or not. she was a dominant player in the tea party movement. she was a dominant player in the campaign this year. piers morgan, when you come across the pond to our style of politics, sarah palin stands out why? she s a mesmerizing character on television and television is now the most powerful medium outside of the internet for any politician. if you chart back really the empowerment of the internet to the public, look no further than barack obama s campaign. one of the main reasons he got elected was his very, very clever strategy of hooking in millions of young people through the internet. and making them feel part of his campaign. now, i think since then sarah palin s look the at this and thought that s a great idea. she tweets all the time. she s on facebook with millions of people as her friends, if you like. she s driving a moveme
the gulf coast, post traumatic stress disorder. and how you can help. it is again free health clinic time. nearly 2/3 of all americans want jobless benefits extended. even 43% of republicans say they do. and, still, the gop blocks them. the hair may be different but the hare brainedness is the same. rand paul strikes again. the fundamental reason why it s failing is why the soviet union failed. socialism doesn t work. and the death of george steinbrenner. will you miss him. yeah, darned right i will. a singular figure in sports history and american history is gone. with the man who managed twice as long for him as any other, joe torre, and baseball documentarian ken burns and my 37 years with george steinbrenner. all the news and commentary now on countdown.
baggage we ve talked about for the last few weeks, he had enough baggage to nearly lose a statewide race where there s no issues of who are you going to appoint a supreme court justice to decide roe versus wade? it s not attached to any of that. u7รง huge liability for the republicans in 2012 before all of this.0dz again, we have in an exit poll finding, which party do you want controlling the senate? they say republicans. moore s hoping people vote for the party, not the person. one more follow-up require think it s word noting as well. you talk about roy moore and what makes this the race so hard to figure out. roy moore as singular figure. he wins that race, goes back to the state supreme court, he s been removed once for disobeying federal law. he will then end up removed again, right? so even when he jumps into this primary and before&hx:t the washington post story in which a 14-year-old says he picked her up outside a custody hearing and molested her. before that, after that