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Because i called everybody in here for a meeting. Now, give me my makeup remover, will you please . Okay. Thank you. There you are. Thank you. I thought everything went very well tonight, didnt you . everyone chattering maybe hes gonna give us a raise. You dreamer, you. Well they tell me, you should think positive. Whats this meetings for . You know as much as i do. [jack] alright, is everybody here . Alright jack, now whats this meeting all about . Well, ill tell you. I love you kids. I want you to take what im going to say in the spirit in which its given. And remember, im not angry, im not upset. But, i did feel it was important to call this meeting. Alright jack, whats it all about . Yeah, lets get this over with. Now, as ive said before. Im not angry. Dennis, youre not even paying attention. Now get away from that fish bowl. Now kids mr. Benny, the last time i looked in this bowl, there were only two goldfish. I know, i know. Now kids how come there are three of them now . Because ....
Not a surprise to those of us who have been following him for many years. It was the opening of the debate and Governor Scott not coming out he did came out and the debate went on and they talked a lot about standard issue like jobs and education that we fact checked but it started with that pretty funny exchange. Are going to look at some of the big whoppers of the 2014 campaign. That floor to debate and many others, more than 100 we have covered, are available on our website at www. Cspan. Org. Lets get the calls before we get to those whoppers. From florida, jim, go ahead. You always depose republicans. You always say the dog whistle or the koch brothers. Paletta fact is a far left, far,. Far leftwing organization. But. That it was started by the st. Petersburg times its like reading the packages of pravda. Yourwas the last time newspaper endorsed a republican president . You cannot trust them. Host is there a wall between what ....
Training and readiness. Lets take an air base. At an airbase, the air bases are open. They have guards at the gate. They have people in the tower. They have people in the fire truck. The lights are on. Were spending the money for all that. Where can you stop spending money quickly . Painting the buildings. Mow the lawn less often. That kind of thing. Importantly, you stop training. When you stop training, you have stopped readiness. We are protecting those in as we know are going to afghanistan and would be in a fight tonight on the Korean Peninsula if god forbid we ever had a wart on the Korean Peninsula. Were trying to protect the units most likely to find themselves in combat. For the others, we cannot afford to train them. That is risky because if something happens, those units will not be fully ready. Then we get to the civilian personnel part of a week ago, furlough ....
Bloomberg knows better than that. Thatheard some people say we stop crime. I can go door to door and stick it in. We cannot do that. I wish you would emphasize that we cannot allow Police Officers to do that because the constitution says you cannot. I appreciate the point. That is one more point from the judges ruling. Judges ruling. It may lower the crime rate but it is unconstitutional. That is not where we begin, that is where we end. Situation, you can lock down an entire city. In that particular situation, that made sense will stop sense. Legal and moral problems. We cannot look at these issues through the narrow problem prism of what could reduce crime. We have to look at Public Safety and the fact that we are a democracy with open values and tolerance. Some sense of equal treatment. Even people who disagree with me and think that this is a toward that should be used so ....
In reality, campaigns become 10 times more complicated when we zoom out and analyze all the factors that are required on a national scale. It is an understatement said that running a president ial campaign is one of the most difficult feats in the american political system. The speakers are expert industry. In alphabetical order these are our speakers. David axelrod start his career in political journalism but shifted to Political Consulting in the mid 80s and went on to become a key strategist for the 2008 Obama Campaign. His role in 2011 when he became senior strategist the 2012 Reelection Campaign. Guestco is the founder and Institute Director for the university of Chicago Institute of poli ....