mindful of the fact they had a what they thought was a very, you know, popular, smart african-american lieutenant governor who could step into the role and sort of help solve their problem. now that that doesn t seem to be the case, they are in a real box because they don t they are caught between what they think they should do from a political perspective and the long-term implications of doing that thing because they could, in theory, hand the state, which had been trending democratic, back to republicans for a long time. it s a fascinating situation. the next move will be when the legislature comes in tomorrow. up next deja vu here in washington. a friday deadline. a possible government shutdown. the border wall the big issue.
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riding around his ranch instead of the yale educated son of a wealthy political dynasty and john kerry combatted questions of his vietnam war record with this visual, arriving by boat, accompanying by swift boat crewmates at the democratic convention in boston. we ll have to wait until thursday night to find out the story mitt romney wants to tell us about who he is. but one thing is clear, the self-portrait will be drawn in etch-a-sketch ink. this is the moment when mitt romney tries to shake off what has come before and recreate himself anew. only what s he going to tell us that we haven t already heard? after all this ain t the first time he s been at the rodeo. mitt romney has been running for president for at least the last six years. to paraphrase a line from the great herald melvin and the blue notes, if we don t know him by now, we ll never know him. thanks to todd akin s junk science claims about rape,
you will be proud of this. and whether we like it or not, the really is, republicans more likely than democrats, when we talk about welfare to think of black people and think of white people as more deserving than black people when it comes to welfare, and blacks are more likely than whites to have this idea that you can be poor and be on welfare and still working hard. so i think that to say at least culturally and it s inaccurate. but it s also simply an inaccurate statement about the president s policy position. yes. i m actually not a fan of the clinton welfare to work reform. in part because i you this you can t on the one hand say the value of mothers in the home is paramount, but if you re mother of a small child and poor, get out and work at a minimum wage job, because that s more valuable. i was never a fan of that, but fan or not, just impairaly, the
privileged kid of a wealthy, powerful family in a religion a lot of americans don t know much about and may have negative sterotypes. i went to france to help people, and then i got much wealthier. let s be clear about what the convention is for. this is a phenomenally boring event. and phenomenally dull dull candidate. come to tampa. the more people see of mitt romney, the necessary they like him. the real function of a convention may not be introducing the candidate totality public anymore. one of the real social functions of the convention is providing access for corporate and billionaire funders to congress members and candidate members. we ll stay exactly that, i m going to ask whether or not this is phenomenally boring, in part because president obama models his presidency on lincoln s team of rivals, we heard in romney s