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but they continue to do it i do agree that it does create blowback. and there's no question that it creates back and you know i know that. i think about just sort of trials and arrest him detention as being as being unrealistic but it's highly realistic that's what we have international pleas for that's what we have. even the potential for we're going to go into north waziristan where the taliban openly control these areas. well let me let me say pakistan won't govern its own territories north and south waziristan are no go zones that's you know who is going to go in there and that means of let me understand this ratio chris and chris in london jump in go ahead i'm just saying that the pakistan military is there in the federal tribal areas and this fighting with these groups pakistani soldiers die every day and bill well there are holes in the early days after nine eleven just as they go after the early days of nine eleven u.s. and pakistani intelligence were very well together for him to launch numbers of al qaida roll them out very tightly the issue
but they continue to do it i do agree that it does create blowback. and there's no question that it creates back and you know i know that. i think about just sort of trials and arrest him detention as being as being unrealistic but it's highly realistic that's what we have international pleas for that's what we have. even the potential for we're going to go into north waziristan where the taliban openly control these areas. well let me let me say pakistan won't govern its own territories north...
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think the chief concern here for the united states in terms of getting caught is being caught by blowback in other words by the consequences of these drone attacks and those i think are significant because of course we've seen people here in the united states who have cited these drone attacks as the reasons for their terrorist activities for instance so i think it's blowback which really represents the casualty or shall we say the consequences that are most direct the drone program. i'll be back with the headlines in a few minutes and right after that a leading middle east analyst describes how the solve the syrian conflict that's tonight in-depth into the. details started. before going global and now it's my role. in. the. shoes you please change your stance. to. make your statement. to the world. coupon three months. well for the. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the huge earth covered. live.
think the chief concern here for the united states in terms of getting caught is being caught by blowback in other words by the consequences of these drone attacks and those i think are significant because of course we've seen people here in the united states who have cited these drone attacks as the reasons for their terrorist activities for instance so i think it's blowback which really represents the casualty or shall we say the consequences that are most direct the drone program. i'll be...
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think the chief concern here for the united states in terms of getting caught is being caught by blowback in other words by the consequences of these drone attacks and those i think are significant because of course we've seen people here in the united states who have cited these drone attacks as the reasons for their terrorist activities for instance so i think it's this blowback which really represents the casualty or shall we say the consequences that are most direct the drone program. coming up barty's high tech teammate spills the come fluid and gadgets of a new russian research vessel that's sailing on the country's rivers that's right after the headlines. of the going down of the song and good morning we will remember that we will. closure is that so much about the taxpayers' money mandating ization the particular area managing in a whole a whole southeastern has to build facing another and more sustained food prices higher prices population growth bad weather. to go to the. slaves technology innovation all the list of elements around russia. the future. please. please please. plea
think the chief concern here for the united states in terms of getting caught is being caught by blowback in other words by the consequences of these drone attacks and those i think are significant because of course we've seen people here in the united states who have cited these drone attacks as the reasons for their terrorist activities for instance so i think it's this blowback which really represents the casualty or shall we say the consequences that are most direct the drone program....
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think the chief concern here for the united states in terms of getting caught is being caught by blowback in other words by the consequences of these drone attacks and those i think are significant because of course we've seen people here in the united states who have cited these drone attacks as the reasons for their terrorist activities for instance so i think it's blowback which really represents the casualty or shall we say the consequences that are most direct the drone program. watching...
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think the chief concern here for the united states in terms of getting caught is being caught by blowback in other words by the consequences of these drone attacks and those i think are significant because of course we've seen people here in the united states who have cited these drone attacks as the reasons for their terrorist activities for instance so i think it's blowback which really represents the casualty or shall we say the consequences that are most direct of the drone program . i'll be back with the headlines in just a few minutes and also that we move to washington studio full stop actually it's here with host peter alex. more news today boylan says once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule the day. pool started here before going global. cooling the fire. choose your place. take your stuff. make your statements. split the water. stream. mission free credit cation free. for charges free arrangements free. free. time free. moseley braun. free. wealthy british stock. market. really happening to the glob
think the chief concern here for the united states in terms of getting caught is being caught by blowback in other words by the consequences of these drone attacks and those i think are significant because of course we've seen people here in the united states who have cited these drone attacks as the reasons for their terrorist activities for instance so i think it's blowback which really represents the casualty or shall we say the consequences that are most direct of the drone program . i'll...
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think the chief concern here for the united states in terms of getting caught is being caught by blowback in other words by the consequences of these drone attacks and those i think are significant because of course we've seen people here in the united states who have cited these drone attacks as the reasons for their terrorist activities for instance so i think it's this blowback which really represents the casualty or shall we say the consequences that are most direct the drone program. all right and i just a moment here in our leading a middle east analyst describes how to solve the syrian conflict that i'll be off to a recap of the week's top stories see you know. my name is richard davis i'm an architectural photographer from london and i've been traveling in russia for the last ten years on a project fed rough wooden chair choose obviously i fell in love with the trenches they are extraordinary ok it's a beautiful opiates and the church is is a religious monumental obviously but it's also an object of wonder you know it's something that people can look tense and event in their eyes
think the chief concern here for the united states in terms of getting caught is being caught by blowback in other words by the consequences of these drone attacks and those i think are significant because of course we've seen people here in the united states who have cited these drone attacks as the reasons for their terrorist activities for instance so i think it's this blowback which really represents the casualty or shall we say the consequences that are most direct the drone program. all...
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think the chief concern here for the united states in terms of getting caught is being caught by blowback in other words by the consequences of these drone attacks and those i think are significant because of course we've seen people here in the united states who have cited these drone attacks as the reasons for their terrorist activities for instance so i think it's this blowback which really represents the casualty or shall we say the consequences that are most direct the drone program. the weekly live here on our team coming up for you all high tech team will be exploring the comforts and gadgets of a new russian research vessel went sailing on the country's rivers that will be off for some of our main news stories for you and about to five minutes from now stay with us live here in washington. to the future of her life's always better down where it's wetter so get on board and check out world class cutters as they get a life week superstrong make over while the giant floating lab prepares to charge the hundreds glorie each to move it or to go and find another way to make waste with a
think the chief concern here for the united states in terms of getting caught is being caught by blowback in other words by the consequences of these drone attacks and those i think are significant because of course we've seen people here in the united states who have cited these drone attacks as the reasons for their terrorist activities for instance so i think it's this blowback which really represents the casualty or shall we say the consequences that are most direct the drone program. the...
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think the chief concern here for the united states in terms of getting caught is being caught by blowback in other words by the consequences of these drone attacks and those i think are significant because of course we've seen people here in the united states who have cited these drone attacks as the reasons for their terrorist activities for instance so i think it's blowback which really represents the casualty or shall we say the consequences that are most direct the drone program. not me but with the summer of i'm a new story very shortly after that a leading middle east analyst describes how to solve the syrian conflict that's in our in depth and in. the. mind in motion would be so much brighter if you knew about song from funniest impressions. for instance on t.v. dot com. magine assets that the cambone watches show every single day. and waiting. for you to stumble. i saw a man with a video camera so i moved over and he followed me. you know we realized they were following everyone from early in the morning. oh. the only chance to get rid of him. is to reveal him. me devil operation
think the chief concern here for the united states in terms of getting caught is being caught by blowback in other words by the consequences of these drone attacks and those i think are significant because of course we've seen people here in the united states who have cited these drone attacks as the reasons for their terrorist activities for instance so i think it's blowback which really represents the casualty or shall we say the consequences that are most direct the drone program. not me but...
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think the chief concern here for the united states in terms of getting caught is being caught by blowback in other words by the consequences of these drone attacks and those i think are significant because of course we've seen people here in the united states who have cited these drone attacks as the reasons for their terrorist activities for instance so i think it's blowback which really represents the casualty or shall we say the consequences that are most direct of the drone program and i'll stick look at some other stories from around the world riot troops in germany have to use tear gas and water cannon to disperse a violent crowd of use at an annual street festival several hundred people started a bonfire and three stones bottles of police when they arrive the festival has earned a bad reputation having been marred by violence in previous years. thirty six people have been killed in northern china as a fuel tanker collided with a pad bus engulfing both in flames police say most of the passengers were sleeping at the time of the crash and only three of them managed to survive it's no
think the chief concern here for the united states in terms of getting caught is being caught by blowback in other words by the consequences of these drone attacks and those i think are significant because of course we've seen people here in the united states who have cited these drone attacks as the reasons for their terrorist activities for instance so i think it's blowback which really represents the casualty or shall we say the consequences that are most direct of the drone program and i'll...
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think the chief concern here for the united states in terms of getting caught is being caught by blowback in other words by the consequences of these drone attacks and those i think are significant because of course we've seen people here in the united states who have cited these drone attacks as the reasons for their terrorist activities for instance so i think it's blowback which really represents the casualty or shall we say the consequences that are most direct the drone program. one retired senior pakistani air force officer told us that the tactics america is using and its fight with terrorism a while back. the information which is being given out is very sketchy because especially since two thousand and nine the united states seems to have changed the rules. and the able bodied. who can become sort of their militant will be considered militant in respect of the fact. but the fact is that the relatives of the victims are approached by the terrorists and. for their lives have been targeted and killed it is high time that you can take a revenge and in fact the number of terrorists who
think the chief concern here for the united states in terms of getting caught is being caught by blowback in other words by the consequences of these drone attacks and those i think are significant because of course we've seen people here in the united states who have cited these drone attacks as the reasons for their terrorist activities for instance so i think it's blowback which really represents the casualty or shall we say the consequences that are most direct the drone program. one...
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think the chief concern here for the united states in terms of getting caught is being caught by blowback in other words by the consequences of these drone attacks and those i think are significant because of course we've seen people here in the united states who have cited these drone attacks as the reasons for their terrorist activities for instance so i think it's blowback which really represents the casualty or shall we say the consequences that are most direct the drone program. parkas study assholes says that in the end u.s. drone attacks during people into the ranks of the minutes and. i'm afraid the information which is being given out is very sketchy because especially since two thousand and nine the united states seems to have changed the rules it has declared that any able bodied person. who can be considered a militant will be considered a militant in respect of the fact whether the person is a terrorist or not but it is a mockery of all kinds of human rights and especially coming from a country which calls itself the champion of human rights and the only reason why the united
think the chief concern here for the united states in terms of getting caught is being caught by blowback in other words by the consequences of these drone attacks and those i think are significant because of course we've seen people here in the united states who have cited these drone attacks as the reasons for their terrorist activities for instance so i think it's blowback which really represents the casualty or shall we say the consequences that are most direct the drone program. parkas...
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well i suppose it depends how you define the wrong hands and there is the blowback theory of all of this of course that that really came out of the afghan conflict in the which was being funded both directly and indirectly through the cia and thus the al qaeda terrorist network is of blowback on the cia but when this happens over and over and over again we either have to assume that the officials in charge of these and counter terrorist organizations are completely ridiculously stupid or that they are actually doing this as part of a strategy of terror akin to what happened for example with. previous the operations like operation gladio in europe in the eighty's where and seventy's and sixty's and seventy's and eighty's where they were deliberately funding terrorist groups to create the problem in order to justify the crackdown so unfortunately i think we have to place that in this context where it seems that the outside fighters and terrorists openly declaring their allegiance to al qaeda are being funded and trained and armed in this conflict by outside forces with the express intentio
well i suppose it depends how you define the wrong hands and there is the blowback theory of all of this of course that that really came out of the afghan conflict in the which was being funded both directly and indirectly through the cia and thus the al qaeda terrorist network is of blowback on the cia but when this happens over and over and over again we either have to assume that the officials in charge of these and counter terrorist organizations are completely ridiculously stupid or that...
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think the chief concern here for the united states in terms of getting caught is being caught by blowback in other words by the consequences of these drone attacks and those i think are significant because of course we've seen people here in the united states who have cited these drone attacks as the reasons for their terrorist activities for instance so i think it's blowback which really represents the casualty or shall we say the consequences that are most direct the drone program. now said take a look at some of the stories from around the world. riots in germany had to use tear gas water cannons to disperse violent crowd of whose annual street festival several hundred people started a bonfire and. bottles at police when they arrived the fastow has earned a bad reputation having been marred by violence in previous years. neil armstrong the man who once made one giant leap for mankind stepping for the first time in human history on the moon has passed away at the age of eighty two condition deteriorated after a recent heart surgery to clear a block of our degrees made of half a billion
think the chief concern here for the united states in terms of getting caught is being caught by blowback in other words by the consequences of these drone attacks and those i think are significant because of course we've seen people here in the united states who have cited these drone attacks as the reasons for their terrorist activities for instance so i think it's blowback which really represents the casualty or shall we say the consequences that are most direct the drone program. now said...
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think the chief concern here for the united states in terms of getting caught is being caught by blowback in other words by the consequences of these drone attacks and those i think are significant because of course we've seen people here in the united states who have cited these drone attacks as the reasons for their terrorist activities for instance so i think it's this blowback which really represents the casualty or shall we say the consequences that are most direct the drone program. well had to bring it up today for the moment here in the weekly coming up a leading middle east analyst describes how to solve the syrian conflict that'll be in our in-depth interview after our return with a summary on the news stories. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture . and. some of the. polls. i think going down of the song and good morning we will remember that we will. h
think the chief concern here for the united states in terms of getting caught is being caught by blowback in other words by the consequences of these drone attacks and those i think are significant because of course we've seen people here in the united states who have cited these drone attacks as the reasons for their terrorist activities for instance so i think it's this blowback which really represents the casualty or shall we say the consequences that are most direct the drone program. well...
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i think it's blowback which really represents the casualty or shall we say the consequences that are most direct of the drone program . and a retired senior officer of the pakistani air force says that in the end he was trying to time and drawing more people into the ranks of the militants. i'm afraid the information which is being given out is very sketchy because especially since two thousand and nine the united states seems to have changed the rules it has declared that any able bodied person. who can be considered a militant will be considered a militant irrespective of the fact whether the person is a terrorist or not but it is a mockery of all kinds of human rights and especially coming from a country which calls itself the champion of human rights and the only reason why the united states is banking on the use of drones is because it considers it means by which its own troops its own people are not without risk and sitting from say ten thousand kilometers away but the fact is that the relatives of the victims are approached by the terrorists and they are told that since. for t
i think it's blowback which really represents the casualty or shall we say the consequences that are most direct of the drone program . and a retired senior officer of the pakistani air force says that in the end he was trying to time and drawing more people into the ranks of the militants. i'm afraid the information which is being given out is very sketchy because especially since two thousand and nine the united states seems to have changed the rules it has declared that any able bodied...
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think the chief concern here for the united states in terms of getting caught is being caught by blowback in other words by the consequences of these drone attacks and those i think are significant because of course we've seen people here in the united states who have cited these drone attacks as the reasons for their terrorist activities for instance so i think it's this blowback which really represents the casualty or shall we say the consequences that are most direct the drone program. to the top story says only the u.n. security council alone can authorize the use of force against syria warning against unilateral action this kids love comment on this from lawrence freeman from executive intelligence review magazine is joining us on the line from washington d.c. lawrence good evening thanks for being with us now is the use of chemical weapons in syria would be a red line for military intervention are we close to any of that and if military intervention did what it sidelined the u.n. . well you have to look at the history of this that you have a president obama is now in a very forward
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an increase of more than forty billion dollars from two thousand and these has greater political blowback at home young people right now have no hope in our society i just want to see a fairer more just society but young people coming up and all of the american people right now are suffering through these hard economic times the dollar is wow is going through bad times and is a loser need to try to miss was international treat conducted in local currencies and us dat growing by leaps and bounds the future of the american empire looks bleak but the habit of hegemony it would appear is a hard one to quit that is your initial cross. ok how about i want to go back to you because you're turning into the odd man out and i want to give you as much fair time as possible right ahead. well thank you i appreciate it look i think it's rather astonishing that we're talking about libya without any mention of gadhafi i mean you mean to say that gadhafi was a realistic democratic proponent of jeffersonian principles or if you're looking at assad the killings in syria i just applied because after all ther
an increase of more than forty billion dollars from two thousand and these has greater political blowback at home young people right now have no hope in our society i just want to see a fairer more just society but young people coming up and all of the american people right now are suffering through these hard economic times the dollar is wow is going through bad times and is a loser need to try to miss was international treat conducted in local currencies and us dat growing by leaps and bounds...
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would posit that the more the united states advances its empire in the world the more it creates blowback i mean this is really what we get i mean again enter in you know as intrusions into arab lands i mean we're making enemies that we didn't need to have ok and i personally can't understand why the united states has such interest in syria what a political interest as it out there maybe it's called iran i don't know go ahead. yes i think that what the united states is trying to do is creating a bloc of subordinate states committed to. the u.s. military agenda and committed to the u.s. corporate capitalism whereby you know socialism for the few and capitalism for the many massive wealth of the few. largely poverty for the many and i think that's what it's really about syria libya. iran. and of course iraq before that we're all in some ways faulting u.s. ambitions in the middle east so one after another the u.s. has targeted each of these states so this is absolutely nothing to do with human rights not only since the correct way in the of the you know the u.s. allies is a separate arabia a
would posit that the more the united states advances its empire in the world the more it creates blowback i mean this is really what we get i mean again enter in you know as intrusions into arab lands i mean we're making enemies that we didn't need to have ok and i personally can't understand why the united states has such interest in syria what a political interest as it out there maybe it's called iran i don't know go ahead. yes i think that what the united states is trying to do is creating...
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think the chief concern here for the united states in terms of getting caught is being caught by blowback in other words by the consequences of these drone attacks and those i think are significant because of course we've seen people here in the united states who have cited these drone attacks as the reasons for their terrorist activities for instance so i think it's blowback which really represents the casualty or shall we say the consequences that are most direct the drone program for thank you very much is it legal to overthrow governments no but the u.s. still does that is it legal to execute people without court verdict no but the u.s. does that one could argue that the reason why the rift between law and practice became so deep is that there is no law enforcement nobody to define the lines the u.s. can and cannot cough for now in washington i'm going to check out. the senior everytime they pakistani asshole says the drastic tactics used by the u.s. and his country may well. i'm afraid the information which is being given out is very sketchy because especially since two thousand and
think the chief concern here for the united states in terms of getting caught is being caught by blowback in other words by the consequences of these drone attacks and those i think are significant because of course we've seen people here in the united states who have cited these drone attacks as the reasons for their terrorist activities for instance so i think it's blowback which really represents the casualty or shall we say the consequences that are most direct the drone program for thank...
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think the chief concern here for the united states in terms of getting caught is being caught by blowbackin other words by the consequences of these drone attacks and those i think are significant because of course we've seen people here in the united states who have cited these drone attacks as the reasons for their terrorist activities for instance so i think it's blowback which really represents the casualty or shall we say the consequences that are most direct of the drone program. you are watching at the weekly here on our heels we'll be back with other of the week's top headlines in just a moment so you see. watches you every saying. and waiting for you to stumble. i signed them with a video camera so i moved. and he phoned me. you know we realized they were following everyone from early in the morning. the only chance to get rid of him. is to reveal him. me devil operation on archie. more news today violence is once again flared up if these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada.
think the chief concern here for the united states in terms of getting caught is being caught by blowbackin other words by the consequences of these drone attacks and those i think are significant because of course we've seen people here in the united states who have cited these drone attacks as the reasons for their terrorist activities for instance so i think it's blowback which really represents the casualty or shall we say the consequences that are most direct of the drone program. you are...
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think the chief concern here for the united states in terms of getting caught is being caught by blowback in other words by the consequences of these drone attacks and those i think are significant because of course we've seen people here in the united states who have cited these drone attacks as the reasons for their terrorist activities for instance so i think it's this blowback which really represents the casualty or shall we say the consequences that are most direct the drone program. lawyers defending one ton of the detainee say the persistently silenced inside military tribunals with that eventually of alleged torture in the prison. that's just pretrial hearings for five men charged over nine eleven to start this week but attorneys say multiple legal restrictions mean they're unable to mount a proper defense mode pins from the international action center fighting against us for wars and social injustices joins us on the line why is the u.s. so adamant to keep any details of those interrogation tactics i've been talking about secret what are they afraid of. well it's quite embarrasse
think the chief concern here for the united states in terms of getting caught is being caught by blowback in other words by the consequences of these drone attacks and those i think are significant because of course we've seen people here in the united states who have cited these drone attacks as the reasons for their terrorist activities for instance so i think it's this blowback which really represents the casualty or shall we say the consequences that are most direct the drone program....
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the mouth of flowback on that was led by mary landrieu, -- blowback was led by mary landrieu. we are talking about jobs on the gulf coast. these are good, hard-working folks who are trying to get their boat mortgages paid off, get to rebuild. when you have a shutdown of a major element of america's hinchey independence and the acceptance of that was based on principle -- america's energy independence had and the exceptions -- acceptance of that was based on principle. when we take a look at that issue alone, we see that a lot of the frustration and the push back on administration issues is bipartisan. same thing with coal. i representative -- a governor, joe manchin, has taken at a stand and said that we put out a coal mine, you are putting a community out of work. sometimes when you take a look at what is: on on the hill, it is a matter of principle, not just politics. host: we have an e-mail that says paul if a bright fellow. >> dr. atul grover talks about the doctor shortage and the impact the affordable care act will have on that. and dr. kresbsbach looks a manufacturing a
the mouth of flowback on that was led by mary landrieu, -- blowback was led by mary landrieu. we are talking about jobs on the gulf coast. these are good, hard-working folks who are trying to get their boat mortgages paid off, get to rebuild. when you have a shutdown of a major element of america's hinchey independence and the acceptance of that was based on principle -- america's energy independence had and the exceptions -- acceptance of that was based on principle. when we take a look at...
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notion that given our particular history that we would have a black president and there would be no blowback, we would take this in stride that it would end in 2008, is ludicrous, and i didn't realize how ludicrous myself until i got into the piece. >> right. and people wished for it so hard. i feel like -- >> we all wished for it. >> we all wished for it. and i feel that's been one of the blockages. every time people bring up race, it's almost treated in the political session like a betrayal, like a betrayal of the lax election. and one of the things you've thought about, you don't get to say explicitly in the piece, but the question you sort of raise is obama arguably needed to say more or at least more -- there was more to say. but politically it was probably a good idea not to take race on more directly after being elected president. so where do you -- what do you think could have been done in recent years that would have been constructive? or do you just think this is kind of a knot, that we can't come to a constructive place at the moment? >> well, i think two things. obviously i would
notion that given our particular history that we would have a black president and there would be no blowback, we would take this in stride that it would end in 2008, is ludicrous, and i didn't realize how ludicrous myself until i got into the piece. >> right. and people wished for it so hard. i feel like -- >> we all wished for it. >> we all wished for it. and i feel that's been one of the blockages. every time people bring up race, it's almost treated in the political session...