Would things have been different if sandra had been white. Candidates on both sides try to find an audience. In a little more than three hours, the sun will rise over ethiopia over what promises to be another historic day. President obama making history this afternoon becoming the first sitting u. S. President to visit that country. This is second leg of his east africa trip. The next two days are likely to include more historic firsts, and as Patricia Sabga reports. Focused on the future. Another landmark, fresh on the heels of his historic trip to kenya, president obama touched down in addis ababa becoming the first sitting u. S. President to visit ethiopia. A milestone long overdue. This is a key partner of the u. S. On a variety of Strategic Issues its a country that needs to be engaged. Ethiopia also boasts subsaharas Fastest Growing economy. China has been cultivating aggressively. Pouring hundreds of mills of dollars into infrastructure, including high Profile Projects like addi
49 yeses, 50 noes. it s been almost 20 years since that vote. in all of that time it has never come that close again. every time someone introduced it in congress, it usually ends up dieing in dieing in committee. in 2007 it passed in the house and died in the senate. now in the absence of congress passing this law, making it illegal everywhere in the country to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation. in the absence of congress doing that, it falls to each individual state to make its own decision about whether to protect gay people from discrimination. and some of these states are predictable predictable. the more liberal states but then you see something like this. something like today in the very red state of north dakota. this is the front page of the far doe forum. it s one of the state s largest newspapers and it is calling out state lawmakers who voted to kill a bill there that would ban job discrimination against gays. the forum is not exactly a left wing rag
you know, if i had a son, he would look like trayvon. wow, with the last time that the president was asked about a racially charged police incident, the moment backfired on him when he sharply criticized the cambridge, massachusetts police officer, but this time, he got it just right. and yet another sign that the republicans see a winnable election slipping away from them, peggy noonan told mitt romney today in her column that comes out tomorrow, it s time to get off the goofball express, as she puts it, enough of the cheesy grits and the singing and the jeans and the compulsive ly pleasants and calling the opponents lightweights. act like a president. and does he have it him or does he have what an aide called him an etch a sketch. the president signed the popular health care law, and so has the president s hypocrisy on the issue, and continuing the charade that obama care and romney care are essentially the same thing. we know you can t wait for it. mad men begin
on him when he sharply criticized the cambridge, massachusetts police officer, but this time, he got it just right. and yet another sign that the republicans see a winnable election slipping away from them, peggy noonan told mitt romney today in her column that comes out tomorrow, it s time to get off the goofball express, as she puts it, enough of the cheesy grits and the singing and the jeans and the compulsive ly pleasants and calling the opponents lightweights. act like a president. and does he have it him or does he have what an aide called him an etch a sketch. the president signed the popular health care law, and so has the president s hypocrisy on the issue, and continuing the charade that obama care and romney care are essentially the same thing. we know you can t wait for it. mad men begins sunday night, and we will bring you some of the real mad men who brought presidential politics back in 1964. we begin with president obama weighing in on the trayvon mart
electability. someone has clipped an abc news report on that tape. it s journalism by white house correspondent from april of 2008 when senator obama was running. a report that came on the heels of another report that focused on the fiery rhetoric of jeremiah wright. the mainstream media did no vetting whatsoever. perhaps ms. palin didn t see those and the hundreds of other reports done by abc, cbs, msnbc, and even fox news. strike one for ms. palin. onto the other reason. the line trotted out by ms. palin is this. bill maher is a horrible man. here is how it works. rush limbaugh characterizes a student as a slut and a prostitute for daring to stand up for a sick friend. there s no condemnation for that attack, no krift schism for rush. there s a defense and it s this, bill maher once called ms. palin a very nasty name. i don t know anyone can sit in the audience and laugh. i think it s disgusting and it s dirty money that he s provided barack obama s campaign. i don t kn