us tonight. sometimes tough love is good especially coming from you, not only the white house, but now from you who s been out there in the political wars for years. what could a rally like this do for progressives out there who might be somewhat hesitant? well, the rally, which i understand was very successful, and i hear you were great, energizes the democratic base. the last year, the base, the traditional democratic coalition, has been a little dormant. has been critical. what rallies like this do, coupled with the president and vice president campaigning around the country, i believe very effectively getting out there in these backyard chats and these big rallies like the one in wisconsin at the university, get the base energized. i have long felt that we ve spent too much time trying to appeal the republicans and independents, when our own base, our own obama coalition of young
and the question now is, will they be motivated to get out there and do something about it on november 2nd? count me in. joining me now is new mexico governor bill richardson. governor, good to have you with us tonight. sometimes tough love is good especially coming from you, not only the white house, but now from you who s been out there in the political wars for years. what could a rally like this do for progressives out there who might be somewhat hesitant? well, the rally, which i understand was very successful, and i hear you were great, energizes the democratic base. the last year, the base, the traditional democratic coalition, has been a little dormant. has been critical. what rallies like this do, coupled with the president and vice president campaigning around the country, i believe very effectively getting out there in these backyard chats and these big rallies like the one in wisconsin at the
president obama has been meeting with voters in what he calls backyard chats. he s held these in real people s backyards. you know something, i think all politicians should talk to people in their backyard. then they take what they say and spread it on the lawn and that would be fantastic! white house thought it was a good idea and look at the jokes. by the way, when are we going to call stop the damage, stop the madness. backyard chats have not done have not done well. they have not. maybe he s not doing it in the right place. down south, they have the backyard barbecues and they take the news crews to the backyard barbecues. they do them every friday night on local news channels. that sounds good. is there beer? i m sure. we should volunteer. if you re joining us, ainsly
being built in 40 different congressional districts in ten or 20 different states so that everybody has a political vested interest in keeping it going. and bob gates, my defense secretary, has been really good about pushing hard on that. and we won some battles. but that s going to be an area we have to take a serious look at as well, you know, when we put forward a plan for getting handle on our long-term debt and deficits. okay? the president there. we ll continue to monitor the president. he is taking questions in des moines, iowa. this is the latest stop on a four-state tour. campaign style. talking about the economy, health, a couple of the backyard chats. he is moving from des moines, iowa, over to richmond, virginia, later today before heading back to the white house this evening. we ll continue to monitor that q&a f anything pops out, we ll certainly bring that you to. we go from the president and his number one issue, the economy, to the first lady and her big issue these
meals you have to shell out a few bucks for. and, you know, they bring on signature chefs. todd english is doing meals for delta. so they claim it s going to be a little bit better. still, you re in the sky. you re at their mercy. you re at their mercy. we re always at the mercy of the airlines. i have another question. we have to go to this live picture. the president like i mentioned earlier in des moines, iowa, having another one of the backyard chats. he is taking questions. let s listen to this. young men and women in our country struggling to fand a job and speak to that message of hope. well, you know, i was in madison, wisconsin, yesterday, and we had about 25,000 mostly young people come out. and it was it was a terrific reminder of the fact that young people still have so much energy and so much enthusiasm for the future. but they re going through a tough time. look, this generation that is