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For myself, on that, and, then, i had to got to a place where i m like, you know, if that is happening, it is because i m missing something i m not seeing something, because i have eyes, so, what is this next chapter? what is it that will happen? and with that being said, this particular disease, i love this diagnose, the doctor said, well you have macular dystrophy, and, you could be blind in next year, or, you could die at a very old age and it could all stop here and it would be fine. so in other words, i could be blind or i could not be blind. i think my mother told me that when i ran with a stick. you know, you can put an eye out. i got that. chris: all right, finally. you held a rally on the national mall, and hundreds of thousands of people come. ....
Correct. the classic keynesian huge, governments stimulus and quantitative easing by the fed and would get the economy going and we have a decent recovery and the fed has done everything it can and the huge stimulus which was in effectively spent and now, an economy is stagnant. chris: the white house hangs its hat on other numbers represented by the latest nig gu figures from the nonpartisan congressional budget office, they say as bad as the economy is, the stimulus boosted gdp from 1.to 4.5% and bad as unemployment is, increased employment more than it would have been by 1.4 to 3.3 million jobs. do they think they can still sell the idea the stimulus is a success. i don t think they can sell the big ideas. unemployment, the big gross number for unemployment is still ....
We face in afghanistan. i think many republicans are looking to give the presidents all of the credit they can president all of the credit they can on the fact we have stability there but the fact remains the president ignored his own advice, that he talked about as a candidate. and the rhetoric that came out of the campaign, was that we ought not to be sending troops there and the surge is the exact policy that he opposed and the exact policy that brought the stability now that is allowing the to the make these decisions. chris: juan, should president obama acknowledge, not, you know, do a mea culpa, i was wrong but acknowledge the surge excuse me made a difference and do you think he will. he might. i don t think it is snaer necessary though i m interested, i hear so much coming from republicans, because, if you want to go down the road, let s talk about why we went into the war and most americans think, gee, there were no weapons of mass destruction, and, it was a ....
And, i don t know what happened to me. but, i m a mushy guy. i cry at commercials. chris: let me ask you about a couple of final things. you announced last month that you have a serious and rare eye disease called macular dystrophy and that you could go blind in the next year. how are you doing. i m doing fine. i came to a great place with that. to where i m beginning to really come to a really great place and it is not don t let anybody tell me that i m not noticing i m not taking things as bad. when it comes to experiences in life. they just are. and it is what you make of them, i felt bad for myself, and i felt sorry for myself for about three days, because i really like to read, and, i wouldn t be able to read, and, i felt sorry ....
Believes there are policy options that exist, that, you know, to think things he could do to try to help the economy get sparks and life back to it again and the second thing is, if you ask the american people who is to blame, 15%, blame president bush and 18%, politicians in general and few say, we see republicans as the answer, or republicans having any answers. so there is a problem of economic recession. chris: i think one of those polls, only 5% specifically blamed president obama. that s right and what you see is not it s not the cement is poured to pick up on kevin s analogy but you see people saying, you know, what is going on? the question is, who is going to be able to use it to their political advantage going forward and joe biden said this week, the republican minority leader john boehner was really someone who was nostalgic for the good old days, looking at the bush administration and the obama administration is looking back and blaming president bush ....