cambridge university. one of the first thing my professor said about american history, presidents lose congress at some point. the second thing was that presidents came out and tried to talk about domestic policy and then they give up and do foreign policy. what happened is textbook. obama is off to india for 10 days on saturday. i completely agree. and india is a country? india is a country. okay. bill, are we americans too stupid to embrace the mr. perfect? i don t understand that and i am american. the problem is she works for a liberal paper. she is white in a boomer. unfortunately she is also right. that doesn t go over well around here, but she s right. the fact of the matter is obama had to engage his critics. he thought it was beneath himself to go on air and say, guess what, i am not a socialist. he thought it was beneath him to say i am a practicing
piece? have you talked about the fact that he goes after the left now as aggressively as the right in many cases. certainly. it s not out of any agenda, any big picture, attempt to be fair and balanced, to coin a phrase. but he s a comedy opportunist. where people do mockable things, left, right, in between, he s going to go for the punch line. dennis leery, his friend in my story, talks about how when john becomes self-important, he knows the funny is going to go away. he s been very careful about that. one of the interesting things is to be in the studio as they re taeching the daily show. stewart will take good, funny jabs at obama, at the administration, and it doesn t go over in the same way with the studio audience. i don t know about the audience at home, of course. but it simply doesn t get the
so they were just about six that didn t. for those six, he felt he did not have the authority to say, you guys overpaid when you were clearly part of the problem and you shouldn t have. you should repay that money. so you have to be careful when you talk about this. it is crazy complicated. bottom line, these guys paid a lot of money above their salaries and, you know, they showed a tin ear to what is going in the country. a lot of people are unemployed. when they see wall street people getting million bonuses it doesn t go over very well. how about all the banks that did pay the government back, that was voluntarily, they might as well kept the money? it s not to say banks will not pay the government back. it s the one that made the huge profits. you re right. they all should pay back, all of
the first command came from them. and then who are the models? where did you pick the models from for the mural? the models were children for the school. they had contests to see who would win and who would be chosen to pose for us. r.e., when you found out about it, what was your response? did you say i was not going to do it or did you consider it? no, i never seriously considered it. as an artist, myself and pamela, we had the picture fully under control. we were trying to depict the child exactly as he was in the photograph, and to have somebody tell you to lighten up the skin tone, it doesn t go over well with me or pam. so it was my decision to step away from it for a few days and reconsider it. what was the explanation of them wanting to lighten the skin? several explanations, but
fear. is there going to be a point where israel has to choose between being a jewish state and being a democracy? can it be both? is that going to be the case? there is a very real debate that is going on with some of the israeli political community on that front but the way it was used and the campaign is something that doesn t go over well with the president and a lot of american jews. one of the interesting things that netanyahu has been able to do at least with part of the american electorate is position israel s priority with iran as if it is equal to or greater than the u.s. priority. there are a lot of military planners who say if you look at the distance the neighborhoods, the nature of the relationships, the u.s. interests in iran are