the president has this there s a feeling in the business community that the president is anti-business. would it help him to put someone in there with some real world experience in business, the rap has been he s got a lot of academics in there, but no one that totally understands business. would you like to that? well, of course, i want someone who s balanced, who can work with balance and work with working people and labor unions, someone who really sees the whole picture. let me step back and say some of the criticism coming from the business community is coming from the wall street financial firms which took the federal bailout funds and sent a thank you letter to washington in terms of bonuses for the people who guided their corporations and banks into their disastrous policies. so i don t have a lot of sympathy for their antipathy toward the president. the president did what he needed to do, and congress did, too, with wall street financial reform, and again, the republicans
nationwide take. but it s not district by district. and when you hone in on those districts, it does show you all in trouble. but i want to ask you another question about the president. the reason i ask is the people that he s now facing are supporters. what happened? if the president hasn t changed, a lot of people complaining he s lost his ability to connect with voters, what has changed to turn these people away? well, i think what happened of the president, of course, prom ied change, and he promised change, and he believed that if he came to washington and in good faith said to republicans, join me, we can compromise, we can solve our problems, that that would happen. instead, the republicans in congress took in filibuster strategy in the senate and said we will just not cooperate with the president on anything, no votes when it came to turning the recession around, very few vote when it came to the whole question of health care reform. when it came to waffle refowall street