some sense african-american it depends on how you want to define what you are saying obviously barack obama is the first person who view himself as black and that is the context i view him as the first black american. >> host: "the persistence of the color line" racial politics and the obama presidency" randall kennedy most recent book. winston-salem. >> caller: thank you for the program and i would like for him to speak kind the issue of president obama, a politician in nine as to martin luther king as a leader. >> guest: it is very important to recognize people occupied different phases and have different missions. margin mr. king, jr. was then head of a wonderful and am perked -- important political social movement. he was a civil rights leader and a leader of the struggle and he occupied a certain role and he has certain responsibilities and a burden to carry eight when you occupy that role. as a policy issue occupy a different role. you have to watch public opinion and if margin is 13, jr. was willing to go against you are the elected politician go over public opinion poll calculation

when you said barack obama, if r you were just to do a roszakt test and grab people.rack barack obama and tom in the t th first and it comes to mind, people was a first black say f president. you know, that's just the nature of things, and that's going to be the way things are going totl be probably for good, long time. >> host: is that bad? >> guest: its good and bad. it's bad to the extent that its habitual and that we tenditua often to be unquestioning in our habits. for instance, journalists, it's often the case that journalists will make a racial identification of a person and not feel the need to explain themselves. for instance, randall kennedy, a black professor at harvard law school. well, what is my race have to do with that? sometimes it does.idenca for t does, fine. explain that, but i don't think it should be randall kennedy, ak black person, a professor at prr harvard law school. it is relevant say why it's relevant.levant if you were not prepared to saye why it's relevant, i don't thins that you should mention the fact that a r black. a >> host: one of your colleagues j

in his own life, barack obama has lived the american dream, as a community organizer in the state ant and a united states senator, he has dedicated himself to ensuring the dream is realized and in this campaign he has inspired so many to be in the democratic process. when i started this race, i intended to win back the white house and make sure we have a president who puts our country back on the path to peace, prosperity and progress. and that is exactly whatwe going to do by ensuring that barack obama walks through the doors of the oval office on january 20th, 2009. [ applause ] that we all know, in has been a tough fight. but the democratic party is a family. and now it's time to restore the ties that bind us together and to come together around the ideals we share, the values we cherish and the country we love. we may have started on separate journeys but today our paths have merged and we are headed to the same destination. united and more ready than ever, to win in november and to turn our country around because so much is at stake. we all want the opportunity to work hard and h

pitch, barack obama definitely has it.o mitt romney. >> if you're president of the united states and you've got al green sitting in the audience and you decide against the judgment of your aides, i'm going to sing al green, that takes guts. and i think it it took mitt romney even more guts to sing a whole song, an american anthem in front of an audience, knowing on youtube and everything else, people are going to see this. >> you have to have guts if you're running for president anyway. the amount of time you spend on the microphones, you've got to have a lot of guts. we learned about their voices, but i don't think we learned anything about their gumption. >> why would anyone want to be president, given the workload, the stress? >> we spend so much time tearing apart the candidates and being unjustly critical of them. it is really, really difficult and wearing to run for president. it guarantees we do not have people in the oval office who didn't really want the job. you've got to want it. >> i have great respect for all

there's a story to be told about barack obama. this is a man who if you want to succeed in his america, you have to be on board his campaign. he picks the winners and losers, not the free market. and there's a story to be told there that resonates i think with people in the country. i just think the republicans are dropping -- i hate to be pessimistic about an election we should win, but it seems like we are setting ourselves up to lose if the economy improves and we should be able to beat a man who to succeed in this society he must pick you as a winner. >> ralph? >> unless the republicans -- all of these figures are interesting and they'll go back and forth and we don't know which one will be the ascendant ones and the ones that make a difference in november, but this much i believe is true. unless the nominee has a message, a simple message, he can get out in three sentences, i don't think we have a chance -- or republicans have a chance. i know every conservative here thinks of themselves as a republican, but if you think of t

, barack obama, barack obama. but he is the wall street candidate. nobody has gotten more money from them. >> with so much going on, is there a danger -- are they trying to marry us to the bank bailout somehow? >> what i would take from occupied is they are like sybil. they have multiple personalities. you do not know where they're coming from. one needs banking. one loves capitalism. they are all over the map. the tea party movement has remained relatively stable in terms of what we believe and our core values and things like that. with the tea party movement needs and the conservative movement in general, and what we can take from this is, i admire the level of fight that the left brings to what they do. we like keeping things we say civil. we are not in civil times. the left changed the definition of pedophilia to across generational sexuality. that is nutty. i had a panel on race relations and people were saying african- american. there is no african-american. there is only american. [applause] and let me tell

i think ron paul learned from barack obama listen i can respect the guy's a trailblazer when it comes to online campaigning this guy you know brock obama the politician was never elected to office barack obama the celebrity was barack obama who had the rock the vote campaign by m.t.v. who was texting scarlett johannson that's the guy who was elected into office not a guy with a bunch of prior experience or even a guy about whom we knew a whole lot is it going to be grassroots i don't know apparently the occupy protests are grassroots but you saw them being paid sixty bucks a head to show up and shout anti gay anti. female slurs at the pac what was there was a thing they yelled anti bit anti black anti gay racists bigots go away at sea back in their paid sixty bucks a head that was grassroots we've had nancy pelosi accusing the tea party of being astroturf. you know that's the whole narrative we want to set this grassroots are that being paid by the koch brothers or these folks being paid by the unions if they're doing it for free good for them i disagree with them i think they're wron

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. >> barack obama is the most dangerous president in modern american history.administration has intellectually disarmed, it has morally disarmed, it's incapable of describing what threatens us. president wants to often lately disable the united states. he refuses to take iran seriously. we are in a world that is very dangerous, and i say that to those of you who represent the next generation because you are going to bear the consequences. we are really at risk some day in your lifetime of losing an american city. >> speaker gingrich has also attacked the president's energy policy calling it, quote, anti-american," a message that is going to connect with voters suffering from sky high gas prices. joining me now from the campaign trail is mr. speaker newt gingrich. good to have you back. >> good to be here. i thought governor palin was right at the end when we ought to take on the obama national security and energy policy. and why we think it's essential both for our economy and for our security to get back to an american energy program that is designed to maximi

. >> barack obama, president elect of the united states. >> and good evening again. you're watching a special ediction of "ac 360." primary coverage. >> the biggest contest yet in a crucial state this november. winner take all in the general election and winner take all for mitt romney tonight. >> mitt romney. florida's choice. a win that helped him look like the front runner again. >> a competitive primary does not divide us. it prepares us and we will win. >> a new setback for newt gingrich and his roller coaster campaign. >> we're going to contest every place and we're going to win, and we will be in tampa as the nominee. >> four candidates with four contests behind hem, with the fight to the nomination is just beginning. the votes are in. florida has spoken, and now the campaign goes west. >> the campaign does head west, but the story tonight is what happened in the east in florida. if you're just joining us, welcome to our "ac 360" special primary coverage. live until midnight. after wild swings in the polls, withering attack ads, million s spent by the campaign

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it's a swing state and flip blue for barack obama. be a testing ground for republicans in the gop primary, the contenders, be between santorum and romney are the front-runners. which one of those two is going to be able to take ohio. >> carl, carroll, a ticket of romney and santorum -- >> i think jeremy lin of the knicks would be the obvious choice for momentum. anyone to harvard. but chris christie and marco rubio are the front-runners. santorum is not a good idea in any way, shape, or form. >> i've been down this road more than anybody else in the building. nobody ever votes for the vice president of the state. they vote for the top of the ticket every single time. everyone comes up and says i'll take this person, take that person, put that person out there. no. who's at the top? that's the one that drivers it. >> but sarah palin changed everything in the last election cycle. there was a campaign and when mccain picked somebody that was -- i just don't think there is anybody that could be that magical person. >> i know sarah palin.

imagine mitt romney wins ohio and he has to fight against barack obama.it sustainable to keep this position going, the whole bailout was a total failure, when by then, i suspect tens of thousands more people will have got jobs in the auto industry? and the general chatter about it will be, it's been a success. it's not a winning proposition for any candidate in a presidential election, is it? >> it's not a success. we don't know what the outcome is because we don't know how much the taxpayers are going to end up losing on this, piers. and i think that's the challenge here. we don't have the empirical evidence to know what is going to happen. what we do know that has happened is that the government has taken the money and put it into the stock market. they are basically gambling with the taxpayer's money. they are not creating wealth. they are transferring wealth. i think that's the mind set that mitt romney needs to go after. is that we have a government that likes to shift wealth from one place to the other. they want to have one pie and slice it up in d

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all of which brought barack obama to his roots in the small town of osawatame. answering his political dream by rediscovering its paternity in that very place. in the very place where teddy roosevelt had pronounced one of his most famous speeches. obama's speech has been touted as the document that represents his program or vision for the nation today. it is the platform for the 1912 campaign. and what a difference in tone from 2008. when obama preached unity and slightly stretching lincoln a bit, he spoke of a figure who called on a house divided on itself to stand together. that wasn't quite the lincoln i remember. but now, in any case, with teddy roosevelt looking over his shoulder, obama has made the line of division bright and clear. with malice towards the 1% and charity for the 99%. obama's theme deliberately echoes the message or the more confrontational occupy wall street movement. and the effort of obama's speech is to burnish that movement's recently tarnished reputation. by, of all things, likening it to the democratic and populous spirit of the tea

and that is defeating barack obama. when you look at the president's record, 22.5 million americans who are unemployed or underemployed spent 5 trillion more tax dollars than we've sent to washington. 42 cents of every dollar we spend has been spent on a credit card that some future generation has to pay. we're anxious to get to having the fight with the president. we're anxious to be able to carry that message to ohio voters who candidly, piers, they're not happy with the president. he's got a 40% approval rating in the state of ohio. a majority of independent and republican voters in the state think he doesn't deserve a second term. we're kind of anxious to get to the real game and get this primary over and get to holding the president to task for the policies that he's put on the buckeye state and put on this great country. >> there's no indication. that this is helpful. none of these other candidates show any indication of getting out. i agree with john king who said earlier that ron paul will carry it all the way.

welcome across a computer a little as the us presidential campaign become a horse race incumbent barack obama against republican mitt romney if this is really the case what are romney's chances in november obama may not be a president of substance but if you doubt his ability to campaign and maybe even when. you. cross out the u.s. presidential race i'm joined by john mchenry in washington he's a partner and vice president of ayres mchenry and associates also in washington we have doug there now is a senior vice president at s k d knickerbocker and in dallas we cross the katrina pierson she is the executive director at watch the vote dot org and a board member at the dallas tea party or at crosstalk rules in effect folks that means you can jump in anytime you want between if i go to you first i mean after florida we have mitt romney again for the fourth time seen as the frontrunner for the republican nomination is going to stay that way. i don't think it's going to stay that way actually and what we are experiencing is this huge up and down roller coaster. you know newt gingrich is receiving

both with mitt romney and with barack obama. despite all newt gingrich's attempts to put himself in that position. you look at the way he spoke tonight, for example, your man. and he sounds very clearly as a traditional conservative who has principles that maybe others don't agree with but at least he sticks to them. >> well, the line that we've been using quite a bit in our advertising and on the stump, if you will, is that rick santorum is not just a conservative by rhetoric. he doesn't just talk a good game. he actually lives it. you look at the contrast with mitt romney. romney, you know, romneycare which included big government mandates was the core of obamacare. romney supported the big bailouts just like obama did in radical legislation. on the koresh use, the tea party supporters believe in, mitt romney is actually, his were where obama have been barack obama is. people are starting to look at the records and understand, do you want somebody who is a true and consistent and full spectrum conservative or somebody who just

i'm not saying creep to get barack obama out of office. >> the election is going to been barack obamaesident's budget plan calls for continued massive spending. real change of course. and you say? >> i say when you mash this up. this new budget with the stance he took on, you know, birth control last week. appears to me barack obama life officially begins when able to sign up for entitlements. i think that's his legal definition. this 3.8 thing if i was mitch mcconnell i would jump on this and have this down that pneumatic tube down to the red zone. go ahead vote on this. you think claire mccaskill is going to go near this? >> >> see the president becoming more and more committed to the progressive cause. have you got to wonder and this is the key question we talked about the top of the program with callahan, maybe americans want the nanny state, miller. you know, you and i, the reason i like miller and put him on the show in the first place is because miller is from pittsburgh. >> what? >> bill: is he from pittsburgh. >> regular guy. >> bill: worked his way up. his father was a regul

basicamente poco y nada. más bien, en su discurso, enfoco toda su fuerza en atacar al presidente barack obama, que se retire del camino, escuchamos algunos de los puntos más importantes de su discurso >>> cuando nos reunamos de nuevo aquí en tampas en 7 meses, nuestro partido tendrá unido y tendrá una formula ganadora para estados unidos un recién elegido presidente barack obama hablo ante el pueblo estadounidense, y le dijo que si no podia cambiar las cosas, estariamos ante un gobierno de un solo periodo hoy estamos aquí para cobrarle >>> bueno, definitivamente, estos resultados no han sorprendido a nadie, los resultados de las votasciones son consistentes con los sondeos de popularidad, y otra cosa que no sorprendió a nadie, que las persona de la florida votaron exclusivamente por la economía. >>> vanesa, desde el centro de campaña de romney, derrotado pero aun desafiante se mostró gingrich quien promete llevar la lucha hasta la convencion del partido en la florida hasta finales de aogo. >>> angie >>> hola, ¿qué tal?, josé, muy buenas noches, la verdad, hay que decir que de todas las primar

record all avoiding the birth control question. >> you did not once in the 2008 campaign asked why barack obama voted in favor of legalizing this? let's be clear here. if we are going to have a debate about who the extremist is on this issue, it is president obama cahoot as a state senator protected doctors to kill babies who survived abortion. >> i do not think we have seen the kind of attack on religious contras, religious freedom and tolerance that we have seen in barack obama. >> we have a problem in this country. the family is fracturing. over 40% are born out of wedlock. how can a country survive? the children are being raised in homes where it is so much harder to succeed economically. >> terry o'neil, is president obama that extremists on this issue? what do you think? >> the crowd did not want to talk about birth control because a loser issue for all of the men on that panel. one of the things that really irks me, i guess, about this claim that the birth control issue is not about women, not about birth control but about the religious freedom of religious institutions. let's be clear,

the base is not going to vote barack obama.m romney, i know i need the reagan democrats, the suburban voters, i'm not going to go there, they're going to come along whether they like it or not. isn't this thing over? where is this he's not getting the third of the party that's very conservative? where else are they going? i don't know why -- >> what they're not getting from him, joe? >> why is that important? >> because republicans win presidential elections when the conservative base is energized. democrats win when presidential elections when they can reach out to moderates. candidates like john mccain lose. candidates like bob dole lose. candidates like gerald -- hold on, candidates like gerald ford lose. when you have a conservative that can gin up the base, even an unpopular conservative like george bush can be dragged across the finish line in 2004 because you can gen up the conservatives -- >> what does that translate to? >> turnout. that means that you drag people out of their houses that don't vote in every election. >

, barack obama, barack obama.reet candidate. nobody has gotten more money from them. >> with so much going on, is there a danger -- are they trying to marry us to the bank bailout somehow? >> what i would take from occupied is they are like sybil. they have multiple personalities. you do not know where they're coming from. one needs banking. one loves capitalism. they are all over the map. the tea party movement has remained relatively stable in terms of what we believe and our core values and things like that. with the tea party movement needs and the conservative movement in general, and what we can take from this is, i admire the level of fight that the left brings to what they do. we like keeping things we say civil. we are not in civil times. the left changed the definition of pedophilia to across generational sexuality. that is nutty. i had a panel on race relations and people were saying african- american. there is no african-american. there is only american. [applause] and let me tell you something else be

>> reporter: and the big winner is president barack obama and his campaign took in significantly more in contributions than anybody else. let's look at the numbers, president barack obama's campaign raised almost $12 million in january, mitt romney raised 6.5 million but spent three times as much. rick santorum had his best fundraising yet bringing in $4.5 million and rand paul brought in slightly less. it really is the worst news for mitt romney who had his worst fundraising month although he still has much more cash than any other gop candidate. rick santorum has more than what he did last year. his super pack has more and we will have more during my next update in about an hour. ktvu channel 2 morning news. >>> a new sacramento county ceo is in hot water for extravagant things he bought off taxpayers. a white noise machine and a shoe shine kit for his office. the bill is almost 44,000 dollars which was charged to taxpayers. hudson says they are necessary business expenses. >>> there will be a court hearing for a former los angeles teacher charged with committing lewd act against st

this presidential election is about barack obama's stewardship of the american economy. 's not about this stuff. and the republican candidate who can best criticize obama's stewardship for the economy and alternative alternative is the one who's going to win. >> you think beyond that, i think you realize when you look at santorum, if he's saying parents ought to spend more time with their kids and he said this with moms and dads spend more time with their kids, he's not regulating it. at the end of the day, you've got to ask yourself. what allows you more freedom to live the life you want to leave. the barack obama plan or santorum at 18%? and i think people who aren't religious will from the-- >> james, last word, i'm afraid. when we come back, mitt romney's tax reboot. his new plan has the potential to be a game changer, can he >> mitt romney jumped head first into the tax reform debate this week, unveiling a new plan that includes 20% across the board cut in income tax rate. how does it stack up against the plans of his rivals and can he sell it without apologizing for

barack obama -- >> they're doing fine. >> barack obama, 47%. >> that's exactly the point.her chapter. where the promise of the democratization of the small dollar donor is now up against people writing million dollar checks in the superpac. >> also, i think we have to look behind the scenes at the small dollar donations because there's this kind of mythos of people reaching into their pocket to scrape together the $5 donation. that's not the way small dollar donations work. there's a giant telemarketing machinery behind this. >> are you about to ruin -- >> in order to get those donations -- >> that was the reality in 2008 with president obama where people were reaching into their wallets and pulling out five and ten dollar bills. >> i saw a kid myself take five dollars and do it for america. >> it's a really big. it's a huge business. the obama campaign has to invest millions of dollars into this massive organization that then calls all these people around the country, et cetera, et cetera and solicits the donations. >> the other thing you have to note is that even if you