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Announcer publishing great steve forbes at the detroit economic club. [applause] i have been asked today to make some observations about the economy and the elections. That is one reason why we did the documentary a little over a year ago. There is a feeling of the country even though we are doing well economically, things are still not quite right, and people cannot quite put their finger on it, but this year in the election, we will have one of those unusual elections in the United States, even though the campaign started in a rather uninspiring manner. No one would confuse it with greek philosophers debating life or the lincolndouglas debates or anything like that, but there are going to be very basic questions. The most basic one of all is what kind of country do we want for the future . We have had these debates before. We had them in the 1850s before the civil war. Which them in the 1890s, people do not recall today, but in t ....
Watch the house live on cspan and the senate live on cspan2. [background sounds] hi everybody. Im glad to see you. Thank you. Thank you so much for coming to tonight news program. Featuring robert caro and conan obrien. [applause]. Im andrea grossman, the founder of Writers Block. Now la to the end of our 23rd year. [applause]. If you are not yet on the Writers Block email us, sign up Writers Block events. Com. We just got it senator a meat sure, Writers Block presents. Com. After tonight, we are delighted to welcome back to Writers Block. The last time he visited wasnt 2002. The master of the senate. It was unforgettable. Bob story is about the genius of the johnson political machine painted a picture of a powerbro ....
Writer right now because they are treated as politicians. You represent. I say nobody. Im not running for office. We live in a time a politics as team sports. In the teams poor aspect of politics has really displaced almost Everything Else in the intellectual content. And now just tribe on tribe action. I dont think having a bigger gang is necessarily something that tells you anything about whether an idea is good or not. The fact is 50 of the population if you watch broadcast television or you look at the actual bestsellers list. Great big crowds of people that i dont trust very much. The original sin of that journalist is his or her desire to be liked. I see this a lot. You can shop for opportunities to invest. And there are a lot of writers who are unable to resist the urge to play to the crowd. To engage in constituent service. I understand the desire to want to be popular to an extent, we have to sell books. We were to be po ....
Certain point of view. Often, being a writer right now writers are treated as politicians, sometimes people will say who do you speak for, who is your constituency . The represent and i will say nobody. Im not running for office. We live in a time of politics as team sports and the team sport aspect of politics has displaced almost everything else, all the other intellectual content and policy considerations and now it is tribe on tribe action and the question of whos gaining is bigger. I dont think having a bigger gang is something that tells you whether an idea is good or not and the fact that 50 of the population plus one likes something to me is more likely to mean it is wrong that it is right to be honest. If you watch broadcast television a look at the bestsellers list. Great big crowds of people i dont trust. The original sin of the journalist is his or her desire to be liked. Yes. I think it is i do a lot of things that freedom fest where you can shop for opportunities to inves ....
Spirits are swarmin soaring whie radical delegates seem dumbfounded why they have a more radical dem 2020 president ial hopeful appear more radical than hopeful. And far more leftist than the democrats are asking to vote for them. President trump last night rousing House Republicans with a raucous speech. I will tell you this, the green new deal, we just want that thing to go as long as we can. Because anybody that can win off as promoting a new deal, they deserve to win. They gotta be really good, they have to have the greatest line of crab that everybody has had in the line of politics. Sandra at the same time the radical dems were eating their own on a debate stage in houston, texas. You just said that, you decide that two minutes ago, you just said they would have to buy in. You said they would have to buy in are you forgetting what you said . Are you forgetting already what you said two minutes ago . Our guests include jac ....