believe, about what happened in the white house meeting george bush held with john mccain and barack obama, hardly been mentioned in the coverage of it is very interesting but it showed how unprepared john mccain was, how well prepared obama was. as you listen to obama take over the meeting, it seems that if you close your eyes, you would believe that this is the president of the united states, not george bush or john mccain. we have a very interesting story about david geffen and maureen dowd and a devastating column that maureen dowd wrote in the early part of the nomination, how that came to be, how this hollywood mogul and this "new york times" columnist bill is one of the first blows to -- dealt one of the first blows to hillary clinton's inevitability. host: she was trying to write that column before she got him to agree to do it. guest: an interesting case of two not only prominent people, but iconic people, it the most prominent "new york times" column is about time -- it columnist of our time, and david geffen, this incredibly influential hollywood figure. he was the head out atf

believe about what happened in the white house meeting that george bush held with john mccain and barack obama. it's hardly been mentioned in the coverage and i think it's interesting and shows how unprepared mccain was and how well prepared obama was, the republican aide in the meeting says as he listened to obama takeover of the meeting effectively it seemed if you closed your eyes you would believe this was the president of the united states, george bush or mccain and we have a very interesting story about david and maureen dowd and how a devastating call maureen dowd wrote in the early part of the nomination fight how that came to be and how this mischievous dyad between the famous hollywood mogul and "new york times" columnist, held the dealt one of the first severe blows to the notion of clinton's inevitability. >> host: let's dig in to that more, mark halperin what john was talking about about marlene doud's call, there's a back story she was trying to write the column before she finally got him to agree to do it. >> guest: she was and as john said it's an interesting case of to not onl

hurt barack obama.ld as much. as a result he gets in the white house a lot. he gets invited in. he talked about education with newt gingrich. he is like okay. people who are critical are not getting invited in. you have to figure a different way of working the system perhaps and sometimes it is effective and sometimes not. maybe it is important that there is a loyal opposition or just loyal opposition. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. [applause] >> hi. i have another generational question. i realized the election we just had was tiny on the blimp of things, but what we did see was the young people of all colors and race and ethnicities that were so much better for barack, were on their hands. what do you see coming down for 2010 in terms of engaging the change agent who got us where we are right now? >> if i were a democrat and who is running for office, i would be a little nervous about what we saw in these elections, except they are not representative of barack. 2010 the term elections perhaps more

know that prepared me for 2008 and the astonishing rise of barack obama. it's true yet accomplish what no black man had before, but it went further than that. simply as an exercise as efficient politics obama rewrote the textbooks. has a competent was historic and one that transform how race and politics intersects in our society. all bombing is the leading-edge of that change in his is just a ripple in the pond it grows deeper every day. so i thought this won't be hard that i got a plan. i'm going to profile for people. i was expected to work for a living covering this election which meant i would squeeze this book and read everything else i was doing. so i thought i would do for profiles of four people. i selected barack obama, but also deval patrick could just been elected the first african-american of massachusetts. i would find someone from congress, artur davis, who talk about audacity of hope is currently running for governor of alabama. [applause] >> in my lifetime, it should be said george wallace was governor of alabama. so i thought i'd just that

robert's reading of that is that this book -- really to be honest it's is not reoccupied with barack obama. maybe it's bad marketing. we really wanted to tell the story of us, who are we? what does it mean to be black in the age of obama? and obama becomes sort of peripheral of who we are. and what is black and what is race? and i came upon this recently. this is just my second book but i swear every book i've written so far -- the week after its published, i read the exact perfect quote that sums up the book. and so i read this quote. it was from a european -- a black european british sociologist who said that, you know, race is really not -- it's not biological. it's really more language than anything else. i think that's exactly what we're trying to capture is the language of black america. the language of black america in this age of obama. and if you think of it language at its most molecular form, it's identity. and identity is nothing more than the memory -- identity is memory. and that's a narrative that we've ever experienced or it's been passed down to us from people in our tribe

it was published when barack obama was only 4 years old, we think. without the birth certificate, we really just don't know. [applause] anyway, the professor and his research assistant offered what became known as a strategyi] but orchestrated crisis. i want everybody in this room to leave tonight understanding what this is. they specifically calculated their strategy as a way to end poverty by bringing the capitalist system to collapse through a series of escalating demands that could never be met. one of their principal demands was the establishment of a guaranteed annual income, just six years after they wrote their little manifesto, it became part of the platform of the 1972 democratic national convention. and they did not just argue that these ideas should become political demands. they argued that action needed to be taken by like-minded people to recap on the system. that is the goal. to wreak havoc on the ssytem -- system. one way for that to happen was to sign up up for -- sign up the poor at such levels to tax the system. the new independen

employees and executives of these companies gave more, much more to barack obama than to john mccain in 2008. a caveat here, obama raised over a much more than john mccain. he raced twice more. he didn't do the matching funds thing with, were you limit your fund-raising to get government money. sop raised a lot more but for these vigorous companies his overall margin was two-to-one in fund-raising over john mccain. that should tell you something about the accuracy of his anti-corporate rhetoric but among the biggest corporations is ratio was much bigger than two-to-one. goldman sachs, perhaps most notorious special-interest gave obama $997,095. now no companies sins mccain-feingold, that was the campaign finance that made it illegal to give spigots, no company has donated $8 million to any one candidate ever. goldman sachs came close at 997,000 so that is the most. these are the employees and executives and political action committees. the companies themselves don't but it is the most in the campaign has raised from any single company in the history-- actually sins mccain-feingold cha

barack obama is a populist. you have to admire that ambition. , suddenly, the white house tells us he is a man of the people. good luck with about one. [laughter] [applause] in the year that president barack obama has been in office, we have learned a lot. we've learned he is not going to govern from the center. we learn he does not believe an american ex sectionalism and he will travel the world apologizing for this great nation we've learned he will raise everybody's taxes. he will try to expend the size of the federal government until it permeates every aspect of our lives and every corner of our land. he will try to turn our healthcare system over to the federal government. we have learned he was to give terrorists constitutional rights, including the right to remain silent he has moved. terrorists from guantanamo bay on to the american homeland. that is not change we can believe in. it is not change that the american people voted for and it is time for all of us to stand up and take this country back. [applause] nowhere has this president's

tavis: barack obama and hillary clinton have promised, they promised that we would get out. >> barackma campaigned on that. remember he also campaigned on thinking -- he said i will take one brigade out a month from the day i became president. if he had done that, we would be down on our troop levels. we're at bush troop levels now. he hopes to get some troop levels down and i think he will get some out. i don't think he will do it as quickly as he wants. he uses the phrase "combat troops." there are no non-complat troops. they all carry weapons. i feel safer with an infantry squad in iraq than with support troops that run truck convoys with iraqi forces. those are vulnerable places to be in. those are the troops we will have after this august. tavis: when the president says combat troops, what is he trying to convey? >> i think he is trying to tell the american people i understand you want to get out of iraq. so do i. i'm doing the best i can here. tavis: still, when he says combat troops, does that mean folks on the front line fighting? he must mean something by that. >> i think wha

is barack obama a socialist?> well, i certainly think a number of -- a range of his policies are certainly social itsic, he is certainly more that way than any contemporary president i can think of. in that sense i kind of agree with newt gingrich. i think that president obama would have been comfortable in the british labor party, free-tony player-blair and other socialist parties he mentioned. not communist though. socialism does not mean the confiscation of all your property. it doesn't mean that that's communism, really. >> bill: if you look it up in the dictionary it's government control of the private sector and private property. for example, hugo chavez is probably the best example of the socialist in power right now. and basically chavez can go in and do whatever he wants. if he doesn't like you you, he will take your business and close it down. he can take your house on some kind of violation. he has no compunction about doing that i draw the line -- you know, look, it's everybody's definition of what a

give the ball to barack obama, get him out there with the people, hitting his points.dent was up in new hampshire and his message to independent voters was clear. look at me now. i'm out there leading the country through this tough time when everyone else just sitting on the sidelines offering their criticism. the latest gallup poll has his approval rating making a turn upward since the state of the union speech. so it's working. >>> plus, don't ask, don't tell, both defense secretary robert gates and the chairman of the joint chiefs admiral mullen testified on capitol hill in support of ending the policy. >>> the oscar nominations are out today. how nominated movies like "up in the air" and "the hurt locker" tell us about the dangers of our times from unemployment to war. >>> the official kickoff of the 2010 primary season. by late tonight we could see if the republicans are united enough in illinois to perhaps turn president obama's senate seat from blue to red. >>> finally, what percentage of republicans think president obama should be impeached?

pamela brown is in the newsroom with more. >> president barack obama acknowledged that there are low expectations for a bipartisan breakthrough. still, he is using this as a last-ditch effort to bring differences and bring health care legislation off life- support. president barack obama is laying out his plan on health care, saying the discussion today will find common ground and action. >> it strikes me that if we have an open mind, if we listen to each other, if we are not engaging in the tit-for-tat and trying to score political points and a couple of hours that we might be able to make progress. >> republican say progress will only be made if democrats agree to start from scratch instead of adding to the ballooning federal deficit. >> meet that our goal, reducing health-care costs and start over and let's go step by step toward that goal. what i see the congress is doing and what i saw this last year is a us performing bad medicine. we get stuck in the idea of treating the symptom rather than treating the disease. >> house speaker nancy pelosi hitting -- says hitting the reset b

barack obama talks about how he cannot sustain on the bush deficits.as tripled the debt and increased the deficit. that makes no sense. >> according to the cbo, 84% of the nonrecession debt is attributable to bush. 16 to obama. he is having to spend money to try to get us out of a recession that started in december 2007, 14 months before he took office. i mean, that's just what the facts are. most of -- a good part of it is just caused by the bush recessio recession. >> we'll be right back. hold it. by the way, director james cameron and his team that created "avatar" will be here wednesday, answering your questions. submit them now at cnn.com/larryking or tweet me at king's things, anything you want to know about the most successful financial movie ever made, just let us know. where's my car? where's my car?!!!! where are you?! arghhh... (announcer) dr. scholl's massaging gel insoles give you outrageous comfort, all-day-guaranteed. woah. it's not too far... (announcer) are you gellin'? dr. scholl's. >> larry: we're back with andrea tantaros and james

if barack obama has run a good campaign and south carolina. so the inference there was, or leaves the inference taking by many was the notion that obama was another jesse jackson. and that clinton was trying to sort of smear the obama campaign as the black campaign. because everybody knows in these estates in american history, the black candidate never wins. you have to be a candidate who happens to be black who wins, right? and obama is really fit the script and became this phenomenon. tragedy is he the only african-american to get elected president? was he the only person on the scene who could have gotten elected president? >> guest: i think so. in certain in certain contexts we did say he leapfrog over certain people. somebody like harold ford junior was considereconsidered an up and comer. >> host: who is considering running for senate. >> guest: yes. was interesting about the democratic party in 2000, 2004, back to back they gave these bright up-and-coming african-american men the keynote address. the first black person to do a keynote ad

courtesy of president barack obama, it is my pleasure to introduce to you in person. space person i would like to ask the representatives of each of the companies to join me on stage and say a few words. ladies and gentlemen, these are the faces of the new frontier, the vanguard. we will certainly be getting this group -- adding to this group in the near future. the work is already started and we advance it one more step today. congratulations to all the winners. i would like to ask each of our commercial pioneers to say a word or two. robert middleman robertblue origin. brewster shaw from boeing. jane pointer. mike gass of united space alliance. mark ciranangelo. david thompson. there you go. [applause] >> good morning. thank you so much for hosting this great event this morning. my name is michael gass, i'm the president and ceo of united delonte alliance. we are excited to participate in this bold new era with our nasa partners. united launch alliance has been supporting our nation for expendable launch vehicles with over 50-years of experience. our current generat

but even barack obama, and barack obama's autobiography, dreams for my father, he expresses admiration for malcolm x and says he admired malcolm x.'s self-determination and ability to recreate himself. so when we think about malcolm x, malcolm x is the quintessential self-made african-american man of the post war period. >> host: and embraced regardless where you live on the ideological spectrum i am reminded that justice clarence thomas also increased malcolm x and haditha collected recordings of malcolm x and on something important in now the mix series himself. >> guest: absolutely. conservatives admire malcolm x.'s notion of bootstrap pulling. pull yourself up by your bootstraps, self-determination and the notion that malcolm x was also say black people have to do for themselves. malcolm and the nation of islam and their opponents refused handouts from the white man in their parties. so conservatives were definitely finding that something the was a great attribute. >> host: another important figure in your book and you devote considerable chapters to stokely carmichael. >> guest: s

scott brown was running against barack obama. and... >> rose: health care and barack obama. >> i mean, it's... to the extent that there is a free floating desire to have something new and it floated to barack obama thinking it was this and it floated to scott brown, there's some continuity there. but the policies... policy implications are totally different. having said that, i do think the country hasn't ideologically shifted. it's not like they've gone from liberal to conservative in a year. they're shrill in the middle waiting for somebody who represents their point of view. it's just that the parties are on the either side of them. so they never name connection. he's reacting the way i would react. >> rose: but do you think that barack obama has a body of principles that he believes in or do you think it's much more a sense of a series of policies that he believes in? >> i think he... >> rose: because you saw in the nobel speech something about the core of him that was reflected rather than a series of policies. >> right. i t

thank you for especial us -- helping us elect a great president to the united states, president barack obama. in his inspirational inaugural address president obama called for action, bold and swift. not only to create new jobs but to lay a new foundation for growth. with your help, it's all about you -- with your help one week and one day later, the house passed the american recovery and reinvestment act. the recovery act will mark its one year anniversary on february 17. and it has helped advance the education of our children by hiring more teachers and keeping teachers in our classroom. the recovery act provided for the safety of our neighborhood by putting more police and firefighters in our communities. the transformation of our economy through middle-class tax cut is an important principle of that recovery act. we began our investments as to create clean energy jobs and will continue to build on the waxman-clean. it's about having more and better jobs for the american people. [applause] >> there are a few things that i want you to remember to take home. according to major economic indi

[applause] and i think barack obama is a one-term president.ed to our common cause. you have been fantastic. there are some great years ahead of us. it is very, very important that we succeed. i will do everything i can. most especially, i want to encourage the younger generation, most of you who are younger than i am. it is a remarkable time to be an american and a remarkable time to be conservative. good luck, and thank you all very much. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> now we will hear from massachusetts governor mitt romney, who spoke to earlier. his remarks are about 35 minutes. >> thank you, thank you, please set. Ñiñr-- please sit. what a wonderful reception. i'm grateful to be here with all of you. it is one of my first times out in a public event since the collection. my name is scott brown. [applause] in the newly elected republican senator from massachusetts. [applause] let me just say that one more time. in the republican senator from mass

president barack obama's doctor said he is fit for duty.ing the 48-year-old commander in chief underwent his first physical since taking office after the 90-minute exam the president was deemed in excellent health but he should modify his diet to bring down his cholesterol level. the president is due for another physical for august of 2011, after he turns 50. those are the headlines. fareed zakaria "gps" continues in a moment. >>> now for our "what in the world" segment. what got my attention is what defense secretary robert gates warned of this week, the crisis that the united states faces with its nato allies. the north atlantic treaty organization was founded to fight the soviet threat, a threat that hasn't existed for 20 years. the new threats that we face are obviously very different and a very different kind of force is needed to defeat them. we don't need tanks to rumble across the fields of eastern europe en route to an invasion of moscow or a defense from moscow. we need drones to kill terror leaders remotely, helicopters to swiftl

we now know that early on, harry reid had encouraged president barack obama to run for president. he did not want to choose favorites. the other senators who were running, we have learned there was a game change the came out earlier this year the disclosed even further the extent of that conversation that harry reid and obama had had they have. they have formed a partnership where they are working to gather together to accomplish the president's agenda. there is a respect and affection between the two. host: it is written that senator reid meet president obama for something more, his political survival. looking at the race in nevada, the poll in milan -- in nevada says that harry reid is up against his opponents and the numbers are 49% vs. 39%. they have not had the primary there yet in nevada. is part of the reason for senator re-'s fall in the polls been president obama? guest: yes, his slip in the polls became ill -- since he became majority leader in 2007, nevada voted for obama. it was a 12% margin. there was great support for him in nevada but nevada remains an extremely inde

el presidente barack obama continua haciendo esfuerzos para lograr que el congreso apruebe la reformadados de salud, pero enfrenta una cerrada oposicion de parte de los legisladores republicanos...fernando pizarro nos tiene mas informacion.. ...en un intento de revivir la reforma de salud, el presidente obama se reunio en 1 cumbre en la casa blanca con congresistas y senadores de ambos partidos. "espero que esto no sea un teatro politico, donde solo actuamos para las camaras y nos criticamos los unos a los otros, sino que realmente estamos tratando de resolver el problema" oponentes a la propuesta del presidente no estaban seguros que se lograria 1 acuerdo. "si el presidente esta dispuesto a aceptar ideas, recomendaciones y legislacion positiva para reformar el sistema de salud, entonces si, pero si el presidente lo que quiere hacer es relaciones publicas para tratar de empujar la misma legislacion que el pueblo americano y el congreso controlado por los democratas han rechazado, entonces desafortunadamente no." partidarios de 1 reforma de salud

prefer hillary clinton because they knew her and was familiar, and then they were very uneasy about barack obama partly because he was democrat, partly because the racial attitudes and china are fairly openly anti-black and in a startling way so there was the center of america he liked and on white president. there was also among the elite level of the leadership to the u.s. in the sense that america was able to remake its politics the way it was difficult for other countries, that agree or disagree with politics of this administration or predecessor the fact of making such change

now the bush white house veteran is leading two wars for barack obama.lizabeth rubin is a "time" magazine contributor and wrote "man of war: on the battlefield with defense secretary robert gates." great to see you. thanks so much. great work. >> thank you. >> you've been traveling with bob gates and you know him as well as anyone does in the journalism world. tell us about what this has been for him, this transition to the obama team from the bush team, the previous bush team. he actually had such a prominent role in bush 41's white house. >> that's right. thank you, andrea. i think what nobody quite expected is how prominent his role would be in this white house. especially since he's the only republican in the cabinet. and yet he both operates as a kind of foil for the white house, when there are issues about national security, sometimes they will put him forward as the man behind that, to protect him from the republicans but also he -- when he came into the last administration, he was sort of seen as the adult in charge, that finally we had an adult

we the media says it is a draw, you know that is a lost for barack obama. the issues that stood out for me and i think for a lot of other people. most people i know were extraordinarily angry at the process. the fact they had to buy senators' votes to get this passed. the fact that republicans were kept out. the idea that the president refused to take the invitation by lamar alexander to take reconciliation off the table. congresswoman, was that a mistake? did he miss a moment to prove to the american people he's bipartisan? >> i think the@ij president did miss a moment. i also think that leader reid and speaker pelosi missed that moment, as did the vice president. they are the democratic leadership, they control it all. they had the opportunity to say, the american people don't want this bill. we feed to scrap it and start over with a clean sheet of paper. they passed that opportunity. the president should have looked at those leaders and said, you know what, the american people don't want it done this way let's go through regular order and produce a prod

they're hysterical about barack obama and they're dividing the country.on't tell me i'm the problem and i'm not reaching out. >> i've helped put together two coalitions, one for reagan, basically evangelical christians and all these protestants down there who didn't like a lot of folks also. you've got to bring them in. also with nixon, we brought the whole wallace movement, at one point it was at 23%, he got 13% of the vote. >> but that was a racist movement. that was a racist movement. >> you call them all that. >> if you're proud of that, that's great. >> who did they vote for in 1964? lyndon johnson, for heaven's sakes. >> thank you, pat -- >> and johnson went to the wall for black people and for civil rights and he said at the time that he was giving the south away and he knew it. >> he would have never called those people names because he came from them. >> well, i come from some of them, too. i'm a working class irish catholic, pat. i just don't like the demonization of the president. >> you're demonizing these people. i don't agree we should demon

i think that barack obama does believe in the power of big government. he talks about all of these green programs that are going to create jobs and so i think it's really being driven by a view that this is a way to expand the economy. it hasn't worked, we saw with the unemployment rate, numbers that came out on friday that the economy still isn't creating jobs, despite this massive infusion of government and the stimulus. >> as a part of paul's question though, i just do not understand is what their political calculation is. i don't read it because as you said there was massachusetts. i personally believe that both the gubernatorial races in new jersey and virginia also went to the republicans because the electorate in large part is very anxious about the level of spending that we're engaged in the past year, we started the year with a 787 billion dollar stimulus package and into the health care debate which was a trillion dollar proposal and now this. i think you get to levels of spending and the american people just get nervous about it. i mean, after

[applause] i think barack obama is a one- term president.e thank you for all of the time and energy and effort you have committed to our common cause. you have been fantastic. there are some great years ahead of us. it is very very important that we succeed. i will do everything i can, most especially, i want to encourage that younger generation, all of you, and that is most of you -- [laughter] who are younger than i am, it is a remarkable time pay attention. george will. [applause] >> thank you. thank you very much. [applause] >> from the cpacÑi meeting, remarks from syndicated columnist george will. he spoke for 30 minutes. saturday, newt gingrich and quebec will address the group. [applause] will come to its senses and have me introduce the most conservative journalist in washington. for 30 years, a political and symbol -- ensemble have been performing. [unintelligible] please be seated and take note of the nearest exit. in case of an emergency, please remain seated and away your federal bailout. when public policy has become a punch lin

. >> when barack obama promised change, he meant healthcare first and foremost. >> we need a generationt says right here and right nw we will have universal health care in america. reform is not a luxury but a necessity. i am not the first president to take up this cause. i am determined to be the last. >> his party has been put at risk by the shock republican victory by the republicans in massachusetts. they are one key -- one vote shy of the votes needed. with the cameras rolling, he will seek common ground which both parties can support. it may be elusive. >> i hope the president will scrap this big government takeover of health care and start over with a clean sheet of paper. this is not a republican position. this is the position of the american people. >> the polls suggest that americans oppose health care reform and disapprove of the president's handling of the issue. the rebels released his proposal which would reduce the deficit -- this week they released his proposal which would reduce the deficit. >> with -- if this comes to nothing, there is a plan that democrats have. it wo

but even barack obama, barack obama's autobiography, dreams from my father, he expresses admiration for dr. max. he said he admired his self determination and ability to re-create himself. so when we think about malcolm x, malcolm x is really the quintessential self-made african-american man of the postwar period. >> host: and race, regardless of where you lie on the ideological spectrum, i'm reminded that justice clarence thomas also embraced malcolm x and have the collected recording of mathematics and found something important enough to max series himself. >> guest: absolutely. i think conservatives really admire malcolm x's notion of bootstrap pulling. all yourself up by your bootstraps, political self-determination in this whole notion that malcolm would also say that black people had to do for themselves. malcolm in the nation of islam in their province refused handouts from the white man. so conservatives would definitely find something that was a great attribute. >> host: another important figure in your book and you devote considerable space in chapters two stokely carmichael.

but even barack obama, barack obama's autobiography, dreams from my father, he expresses admiration for dr. max. he said he admired his self determination and ability to re-create himself. so when we think about malcolm x, malcolm x is really the quintessential self-made african-american man of the postwar period. >> host: and race, regardless of where you lie on the ideological spectrum, i'm reminded that justice clarence thomas also embraced malcolm x and have the collected recording of mathematics and found something important enough to max series himself. >> guest: absolutely. i think conservatives really admire malcolm x's notion of bootstrap pulling. all yourself up by your bootstraps, political self-determination in this whole notion that malcolm would also say that black people had to do for themselves. malcolm in the nation of islam in their province refused handouts from the white man. so conservatives would definitely find something that was a great attribute. >> host: another important figure in your book and you devote considerable space in chapters two stokely carmichael.

i think barack obama and steadman have jumped the sheik on this already.i don't care about the location of the trial. i care about the fact that he is getting the same trial that i got and i care -- or i would get. and i care about the fact that you have a harder grilling, if you try to buy a members only jacket than do you if you try to blow up your underwear on a plane nowadays. i just wish they would start to disparage the terrorists. that would be a good step for president obama. if they would start to disparage the terrorists in the same manner many of the people around him or one of the people around him and he have disparaged the developmentally disabled. we can't call them terrorists and yet i have got to hear the word with an f bomb no doubt in front of it retard about the development tally disabled from his camp? i do work with the developmentally disabled in santa barbara. they are a far greater group of people from what can i observe and the people that barack obama and the czars and the inner circle surrounds himself with. >> bill: all right.

it was published when barack obama was only 4 years old, we think. without the birth certificate, we really just don't know. [applause] anyway, the professor and his research assistant offered what became known as a strategyi] but orchestrated crisis. i want everybody in this room to leave tonight understanding what this is. they specifically calculated their strategy as a way to end poverty by bringing the capitalist system to collapse through a series of escalating demands that could never be met. one of their principal demands was the establishment of a guaranteed annual income, just six years after they wrote their little manifesto, it became part of the platform of the 1972 democratic national convention. and they did not just argue that these ideas should become political demands. they argued that action needed to be taken by like-minded people to recap on the system. that is the goal. to wreak havoc on the ssytem -- system. one way for that to happen was to sign up up for -- sign up the poor at such levels to tax the system. the new independen

and i think barack obama is a one-term president. >> all right. this, democrat strategist maria, joining us live from washington. maria, a lot of comment slamming the president and his administration. i want to get your response to some of that. >> well, i think that what this convention is showing and what conservatives are showing is that they're basically out of touch with the mainstream of america. what we have seen with most of the comments is that they are fiery, they're full of red meat, they are not shy about personally insumting the president, and they're showing american voters exactly what they have rejected. it seems like everybody in this convention is calling for more partisanship, is calling for more divisiveness. where are the solutions? where are the leaders that are going to step up and work with this president the way that american voters have said very clearly that's what they want? >> i want to get to solutions and any talk of that in a second. i want to address something that you said, the people at the cpac convention are ou

i do not think barack obama de. not even just because they still own msnbc where keith olberman and rachel mad now say there holley lu de obama songs commit [laughter] i don't think he's trying to enrich them. i think that the they see the way in the world of obamanomics is to line up with government and what does that do? it really saps' entrepreneurship and defies the economy and means you guys won't have jobs when you get out of college unless one of these chosen few, google, microsoft, general electric, boeing that have the best lobbyists, they're going to increasingly control more of the economy. but that has a net effect of being bad on the whole economy. if there are no other questions -- sorry. i don't know if the microphone can reach that far. >> you mentioned earlier -- he mentioned earlier you felt the american people were being left out in times in favor of big government and big business. however i believe he were speaking specifically in terms of the bailout and stimulus package which if i remember corr

barack obama is a very dangerous man.think he is very, very as a tendency toward marxism and i think he has a complete the testing of the american constitution. host: here is more from sarah palin. >> especially in times of potential trouble in the future, we're not afraid to say that we do not have all the answers as fallible men and women. it would be wise of us to start seeking some divine intervention again in this country. [applause] so that we can be safe and secure and prosperous again. to have people involved in government who are not afraid to go that route, not so afraid of the political correctness that they have to be afraid of what the media would say if they were to proclaim their alliance and our creator. host: san diego, on the independent line, your thoughts? caller: many of us were not pleased with president bush. when it ramped up with obama, we started getting really concerned. the man that made a comment about sarah palin's speech being third grade level was inappropriate. i don't see where the people

barack obama agreed to dump publicity out of deference to china. america's military budget alone is bigger than china's g.d.p., but not even six flee and military dominance of air, sea and space giving america the power to offend china. because china is america's banker. in the space of a decade, china's economic growth and america's economic crisis have changed the game between the two pures. gone is the idea that engaging china in a global market place would turn it democratic. now, china is shaping the global market place. and in diplomacy it's supporting many of the forces that oppose democracy. >> a wish to move to chinese consumption to increase chinese consumption as quickly as possible. and while they know it's going to take time, that decisn has definitely come hand in glove with the notion that they will not be able to rely as much on an u.s.-driven model for china's economic growth. so it has political implications for the way the chinese look at united states, the way they're willing to work with the united states. and you're seeing so

i voted for barack obama. it was the first time since john f. otherwise. i have diabetes and heart failure and try to take care of that. to think of what these congressmen do, and i want to talk about some who said he would only run on term limits. he is still there. we have professional lazy people. they did not know how to hold a job. i was a union brick layer. i did not have negotiation or arbitration. you could get paid off in the middle of the day. i want the health care system for younger people. i have grand children in ohio. and i want to thank you for taking my call. i have tried several times to get on. america, start to be americans. think together. host: thank you, john. caller: i think the united states should stop giving israel $10 billion a year. this charity begins at home. this is one of the richest countries in the world. we do not need to borrow money to send $10 billion a year to israel. they can take care of themselves. host: silver spring, maryland. okcaller: this is my first time calling c-span. i have been trying to call

>> philadelphia voters, 13 who voted for john mccain, 11 who voted for barack obama.hey watched both sarah palin and the cartoon itself and the reaction we got was shocking. >> bill: let's roll the cartoon. go. >> hi, chris. >> wait a minute, that's the girl? >> yeah. isn't she special? >> that's the way the state of rhode island would put it. there is something up with her, isn't there? >> yeah. she has got down syndrome. >> okay, well, there we go. >> she is so sweet. >> and doesn't she have the most beautiful eyes? >> the spacing seems a tad off but individually yeah they are not awful. >> are you going to be this rude all evening? you haven't asked me anything about myself. >> oh, sorry, um, so what do your parents do. >> that's better. my dad is an account at that particular time and my mom is the former governor of alaska. >> bill: all right, now, after she said former governor of alaska we cut it off but where did the line go. >> the republican line tanked. we asked them if you think it's funny you dial it up. if you think it's offensive you dial it down. now i