half century industry of new york senator robert f. kennedy s announcement for president. march 15th, 50 years ago, he gave an instruction to his aide frank mankowitz better reserve the senate caucus room for tomorrow 0i6789 robert kennedy hoped to put off walking into this room to declare for president and hoped to do it in 1972 when the matter s nomination would be open. as i readed in bobby kennedy, he didn t want to challenge a democratic president. kennedy was a good politician and knew this wasn t good politics. johnson had just gotten a scare from mccarthy in new hampshire but johnson had not just won but beat him on a write-in without the name johnson even being on the ballot. bobby tried an 11th hour maneuver to change johnson s war policies in vietnam the day before he and ted sorenson went secretly to the pentagon to talk with clark gifford. johnson shot it down and decided it would be admitting defeat on the vietnam war issue.
wasn t good politics, president obama listened to my uncle teddy and staked his presidency on making healthcare accessible to all americans. [ cheers and applause ] despite an opponent who wanted to let detroit go bankrupt, this president saved the auto industry and now it s coming back strong. he not only demonstrated the courage to oppose the war in iraq, as president, he showed the determination to bring our troops back home. barak obama is the kind of leader my father wrote about in profiles in courage. he doesn t just do what s easy. he does what s hard. he does what s right. [ cheers and applause ]
stuff that happened. barney frank is another example. thank you for the suggestion, sir. you re going to get me off my track here, hang on. the point is, when that crisis hit us, it caught us all by surprise. trillions of dollars of wealth from families from retirements were vanished. millions of people out of work which we re still suffering from. let me ask you it this way. what if your president or your congressman or your senator, what if they saw it coming, what if they knew that that crash was coming, what if they knew why it was going to happen, what if they knew approximately when it was going to happen, and what if they knew how to prevent it from happening and they had the time to do that but they just decided not to because it wasn t good politics. people have doubts about taking aspirin for pain. but they haven t experienced
reverend wright. what s your take, do you think this controversy is over now and while everybody is being asked questions about wright, they can now get on their digs, left and right, about what the economy and the jobs need to be in this country? i think erin is generally right that neither. it is in neither candidate s best interest to pursue this course. and i think that one of the reasons why this was sort of a one-day story after this, this super pac s consideration of making jeremiah wright an issue. why it was only a one-day story, they concluded this wasn t good politics. here s why because when you re running for the first time, defining yourself, or defining your opponent is what s important. but barack obama was already defined, to whatever extent he sing did to be defined by jeremiah wright four years ago. he s not going to be more defined by it this time. this time the president is going to be judged and he s going to either be hired or fired based on his performance o
i agree because america deserves better. america does not deserve a debt crisis. this is the most predictable crisis we have ever had. in 2008, when we had the economic crisis that, caught us by surprise. if your president, your congressman and your senator knew about a bam time, when it was coming, how it stop it and had time to stop it and doesn t do so because it wasn t good politics what would you think of that person? we know a debt crisis is coming, just like europe. we know when it s happening, why it s happening and what to do to prevent it from happening. have you to pass a budget. and we don t have a willing partner in the white house or the senate. so yes, we are frustrating. but we need new leadership and we are going to the country with a referendum on fixing this problem and letting at least the country decide in november, what do you want? do you want a country that prevent this is debt crisis and gets back to prosperity? or do you want to go down this