how about nobody. we were going to take a hard pass on the whole thing. and then we saw this. a few days before the wedding, she was upset about something pertaining to yes, the issue was correct, about the flower girl dresses and it made me cry. and it really hurt my feelings. tucker: so that was the princess or duchess or whatever she is. okay, we re hearing from the control room that she is, in fact, a duchess. not a princess. not that we know the difference. in any case, here s this royal person, one of the most famous and fawned over people in the world telling oprah that she was incredibly wounded because she got into a some kind of petty argument about dresses with her sister-in-law at her wedding three years ago. so stop the presses. abshe and her sister-in-law had a tiff about clothes. that s never happened before. she thinks this is important enough to bring up in a television interview. it was her 9/11. so of course she considers it newsworthy. okay, so she s
we ve outtargeted or dataed ourselves where we identify a set of voters, we try to pinpoint the one thing that s going to move them into voting. and that s prevented us from talking about our values, a collective vision not just rooted in a set of policies but that finds common ground between a lot of working class people, whether you are white, african-american, gay andless bee jan lesbian, but we re busy trying to prove how smart we are to actually present one compelling vision. when you get outside of d.c. ballrooms and outside of d.c., a lot of the campaigns being run now do have a lot in common. look at the campaign ads run in the connor lamb race and alabama
troops without leaving chaos in its wake? next up, debt, shedding real light on our present situation in the united states and europe. we have the author of a phenomenal new book, phillip kogan. i ll explain. first, here s my take. some of you regular viewers will recall that at the start of the first show of this year i predicted hopefully that the u.s. woo economy would recover nicely in 2012. i m returning to that topic with some preliminary good news. if you look around the industrialized world, the u.s. economy is the most promising of the bunch. the american recovery is not as vigorous as one might hope, but it is remarkably broadbased. manufacturing is up, including for the first time in 30 years nontechnology manufacturing. retail sales are up. consumer confidence and spending are growing. consider sales are up. the stock market reflects this. two areas of the economy that continue to lag are jobs and housing. both critical areas. generating economic growth and prof