that s why we re going to ultimately overcome the difficulties we ve had and prevail in the future and the goal here is to let everybody live out their lives and live out their dreams and get them as far as their talents will allow them. i m struck by that term humility. it does suggest all of us humility is another word for wisdom. you learn things. one of the things he hasn t learned is that government can t do a lot. businesses sitting on that $2 billion, the resentment of handling in the last two years, this refusal to go out and invest and create american jobs is the number one hammer over this administration right now and if he meets with these guys he goes the chamber he meets with these people, bring in billy dailey, sends these
edition of hardball with chris matthews. barack obama, the score at halftime. let s play hardball. this is a special hardball presentation. obama s america. . here is chris matthews use. good evening. i m chris mathews up in new york. leading off tonight, a special hardball obama s america. martin luther king was born 82 years ago. this is also the anniversary of the president s inauguration. tonight, we look coldly at the first half. how is he doing? has the president moved us toward a post racial society? if so, how? and how is he doing on that acid test of any president? the jobless number. how about african-american unemployment and how about the country s political tone? is it better now since tucson? does politics in america still mean naming villains? we look at the obama s presidency, the politics two years into his term. joining me now, michael steele, who just served a two-year term as chairman of the republican committee, eugene robinson, a pulitzer pri