to seek approval, has not gone to congress. i think the white house has actually done a very good job. if you look at your poll and other polls the american people are right there with the white house. what s interesting about the republican side and the divided republican senate conference is there is no real center of gravity for foreign policy on the republican side. you think there s a center of gravity on democratic side? have you spoken to nancy pelosi lately? the president of the united states certainly occupies that. but on the republican side you have the libya issue, afghanistan, where even mitt romney and other republicans are coming around to the president s position, even though months and months ago people thought it would be impossible to be where we are right now. but the president is the one leader on foreign policy. bill, i ll give you a chance to respond to russ feingold who called your organization out at the net roots nation. he said this of super pacs of w
western way of life. it is the wave that is sweeping the world . the media continues to ignore it. you must not. we told you before the weekend about the protest planned in all 50 states. stand in solidarity with the union worker in wisconsin and union workers are buying into that lie. they are called save the dream rallies and they are talking about the american dream that we showed you. not the american dream that you understand. they defined it in 2008 in the net roots nation and this has been planned since then. how have they planned the american dream angled for the last two years and announce it as spontanous. they get away because the media doesn t watch. look how many are linked to this.
this is done. if you are wondering why there are subtitles on the president who is speaking very clear english, it s to make things work for the live audience here at the 92nd street y. they also accounted for some of the applause you were hearing. the whole psychology of the newsmaker thing, what makes that guy tick thing, it s not really the way that i approach the news. i am usually interested more in what people do than what people are like. that said, it seems important to me that the president was freaking elated to sign the don t ask, don t tell repeal bill today. so that s one. that s thing one, the historic thing today. thing two, the thing that happened that i can t believe it did was this. this happened in july, net roots nation, which is the big progressive conference held in vegas this year. check this out.
this is done. if you are wondering why there are subtitles on the president who is speaking very clear english, it s to make things work for the live audience here at the 92nd street y. they also accounted for some of the applause you were hearing. the whole psychology of the newsmaker thing, what makes that guy tick thing, it s not really the way that i approach the news. i am usually interested more in what people do than what people are like. that said, it seems important to me that the president was freaking elated to sign the don t ask, don t tell repeal bill today. so that s one. that s thing one, the historic thing today. thing two, the thing that happened that i can t believe it did was this. this happened in july, net roots nation, which is the big progressive conference held in
constitutional option, something that s structured to take a 51-senator vote on the first day of the new senate. obviously there will be more than is 51 democrats in the chamber. there has been some positive noise from republicans. do you have support for senator reid for some filibuster reform? he said he would be interested in it at least in concept. no, senator reid has spoken several times passionately, one of the ones i remember is when he appeared at net roots nation and talked about abuse of the spitball and abuse of the four-corner rule in basketball. he said they banned those. he said, you know, this abuse is unprecedented, we have to do something about it. and so he has assigned a number of task forces to take a look at the rules and come back. we re going to meet this thursday in a democratic caucus. if we can t get it done thursday, we re going to meet