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Appeal that they got a cynical crew of members of congress to stand on the refrain. it did stand on the big message. jobs. you can look at these words and look at the policies and pull them all out. the president is much closer to where the american people are than the republicans are on any one of those things. overall what the american people appreciate is a president who leads. that was a leadership speech. jonathan, it goes to a point, he brought up these individual issues. you will know this when you do your own survey. of the individual things he said they all are going to poll test very well. they all do. 65% ideas. everybody wants universal pre-k. the republican message, marco rubio pushing, hey, government doesn t have all the answers. can t do this. we ve got a debt problem. how do you balance this? it isn t popular necessarily what your message is sort of on the pocketbook front. on the pocketbook front, remember, gallup two days ago had the president s approval rating ....
People how this will impact them directly. that s one thing we always fail to do. we talk a lot about economic theory and big numbers but one of the problems with the american recovery and reinvestment act was a lot of americans didn t understand how it affected their lives. that s what i think most citizens are looking for. so the elements i think are less important than making that critical point to the average citizen. which president needs to show up tonight? kristen just alluded to the tone of the speech. do you want to see the fighter in chief coming out swinging, or do you want to see the president we ve seen a lot of over the past few months, the compromiser in chief, come out tonight? no, i think we need a president who has clarity, who has a very clear direction, and is confident in the plan and how it will improve people s lives. needs to be a leadership speech. somebody has to show the american people a direction out of this very, very tough time we have. ....
Policy. greg writes from california, no arab spring without his leadership speech in cairo. president obama thinks strategically and that mean beyond next year. i put my money on him. we ve seen time and again how he s outmaneuvered his critics. dennis in north carolina. he s too slow to react to world situations. his thought process is slow. he s made great speeches on world policy but not committed to them. tom in michigan writes as long as our foreign policy is to war with other countries to achieve economic goals and force our way of life on others and be governed by corporate america, disaster is the only way it will end up. too few controlling the many. they do not represent the wishes of the people. we re a government without representation and we have been for a long time. patrick am michigan, it doesn t matter who the president is. our foreign policy has been a disaster for decades. we know where this is heading and it won t be a happy outcome. mike writes, jack, are you kiddi ....
Surprise we had the hope leave washington on thursday night. we had john boehner resign on friday. over the weekend we got kevin mccarthy all but anointed. and then the following monday rolled around. kevin mccarthy s scheduled to give a big foreign policy speech that monday. at that point, right? he s not just a member of congress giving a leadership speech. he s now the man poised to take one of the highest-profile and most powerful political jobs in the entire world. the spotlight had never burned brighter on kevin mccarthy. that monday, the monday after john boehner quit. it s the first huge moment of national and even international importance for lucky, lucky kevin mccarthy. and it went very poorly. we don t have the same as difficult decision, but this white house is managing the decline in putting us in tough decisions for the future. unlike during the surge in iraq when petraeus and crocker had an effective politically strategy ....
Had recruited many others to be in congress in the first place, how he had all but locked up the support he needed to become the next speaker, even if not too many people knew who he was. that was the weekend. so we had john boehner s surprise we had the hope leave washington on thursday night. we had john boehner resign on friday. over the weekend we got kevin mccarthy all but anointed. and then the following monday rolled around. kevin mccarthy s scheduled to give a big foreign policy speech that monday. at that point, right? he s not just a member of congress giving a leadership speech. he s now the man poised to take one of the highest-profile and most powerful political jobs in the entire world. the spotlight had never burned brighter on kevin mccarthy. that monday, the monday after john boehner quit. it s the first huge moment of national and even international importance for lucky, lucky kevin mccarthy. and it went very poorly. we don t have the same as difficult decision, b ....