poll numbers are at near record lows and falling. democrats are turej on each other, the economy is still shaky and spending remains out of control mrs. clinton s ambition to be president has not evaporated. she can t wait until 2016 to run again, she will be too old. she is starting to move now. consider, in most polls hillary has a 10 to 25 point favorability edge over obama. and many now believe she is more qualified to be president than he is. also, mrs. clinton cleverly kept her name out of the general mcchrystal debacle even though her state department people were deeply involved in the infighting. and then of course there is her husband. not endorsed by the white house and offering very public and contrary advice on the bp oil spill. here is the key.
poll numbers are at near record lows and falling. democrats are turej on each other, the economy is still shaky and spending remains out of control mrs. clinton s ambition to be president has not evaporated. she can t wait until 2016 to run again, she will be too old. she is starting to move now. consider, in most polls hillary has a 10 to 25 point favorability edge over obama. and many now believe she is more qualified to be president than he is. also, mrs. clinton cleverly kept her name out of the general mcchrystal debacle even though her state department people were deeply involved in the infighting. and then of course there is her husband. not endorsed by the white house and offering very public and contrary advice on the bp oil spill. here is the key. mrs. clinton knows that a lot of
alaska isn t a foreign country. see, katie s asking her, what newspapers do you read? what do you keep up with to stay on top of what s happening in the world and there was nothing specific given. simple question. she got nervous. it didn t go well, and she admits it. now she can put her facebook notes on there. doesn t have to talk to the mainstream media. she has outlets to get her voice out. we were talking about how you think, don t people know better, and yet people are people, they re going to say things and you have to be held accountable in the public eye given flip cams or quotes or anything anywhere. you ve got to be on your toes all the time. absolutely. but in all of the cases, even in the general mcchrystal case the journalists were the vessel. these were cases of public figures self-destructing. this interthe journalists doing g got ya. it wasn t out of context or misquoted, this is what
larry king live is coming up. what have you got for us tonight, larry? well, john, the general mcchrystal is out, the general petraeus is in. and the man who shook up the military, the author of the rolling stone article that had everybody talking yesterday is with us tonight. it s his first on-camera interview to talk about it. he ll tell us how he got that incredible information that may have brought down a man s career completely. that s all coming up next on larry king live, john. looking forward to it. looking forward to it. comie ining up.
this is a catastrophic event. it will get harder, not easier. last longer and not shorter. that s what i ve learned from listening the people to get better fast. i don t believe that. i think we are in it for the long haul and when s really important, capping the hole, capturing the oil, cleaning the coast, compensating the victims and then hopefully learning from the mistakes we didn t learn from as a result of things after katrina and rita. all right. mitch landrieu, mayor of new orleans, brother of the u.s. senator, as well. thanks for joining us this morning. thank you for having me. up next in today s decision 2010, the debate that crist cares most about. plus, public anger weighing down team obama. we ll dig deeper into the results of the new poll. and the political fallout from the general mcchrystal controversy. chris matthews will weigh in. but first, today s trivia question. which country s ballots have candidates from the marijuana party and the work less party