who could forget the last eight years of george bush. speaking of, why is it not in that news media about the investigation in britain, everyone there testifying that bush made a predetermined decision to go to war? why is that not in the media? why are you talking about obama's foreign policy? host: laura, from twitter -- george w. bush things with his gut, brock obama things with his brain. i prefer the brain when it comes to thinking. next caller. caller: i think he is definitely naive. host: why? caller: i look at it this way. i want him to succeed, but his foreign policy, when he was in china, he should have talked about the freedom of the people , the rights of the people, letting china know how he feels. he did that do that. instead he buttercup to russia and china. he has got to take a strong stand. he has got to start taking a strong stand. host: what does a strong stand mean to you? caller: to face reality in life. the there are countries out there that hate us and will do anything to kill us. he does not take that stand. he did

george h.w. bush and -- william jefferson clinton. [applause] and what they did together, aside from freaking everyone out, they raised awareness and the funds for the victims of tsunamis and hurricane katrina and struck back against the unnatural toll that natural disasters take on the least fortunate members of society. ladies and gentlemen, it is my honor, my pleasure, i really, really like this man. please welcome past liberty member awardee, the chairman of the national constitution center and the 42nd president of the united states of america, william jefferson clinton. [applause] >> thank you very much. thank you very much, governor, mayor, superintendent mcleod, the officers and the board members of the constitutional center and my colleagues and everyone who made this night possible. i would like to thank wonderful musicians who played the theme from ask the schindler's list." and my friend whoopi goldberg. mostly i think all of you for being here tonight and i'm grateful for the opportunity to actually present the liberty me

other people during the bush administration, myself included, took many shots at george bush for beingumb. okay, the truth hourturts, but still. >> wiell, i think bush is latin because he lived in a house that wasn't his and english wasn't his first language. >> see, that's my point. >> catch joy behar at 9:00 testimony p.m. >>> it seems like sarah palin's new book has had a life of its own since it came out this week. so what would "going rogue" say if it had a voice of its own?

some people come up with answer of george w. bush. >> barack obama. >> newt gingrich. >> nancy pelosi. >> the union. >> michael moore. >> rush limbaugh. [laughter] >> familiar, right? who is to blame but it's what everybody asks and it is a natural question to ask because whenever something goes wrong the normal instinct is to find out whose fault it was. all you need to do is visit a bookstore and go into the current events section. it is filled with villains. they're some of the titles up here. very inspirational titles. bookshelf full of blame. >> i of course want to appear on the cover of our book in a short little mini black dress. i thought it would generate a little buzzed by john talked me out of it. >> i have my limits, yes. >> instead of who is to blame, we ask a different question. why do big initiatives fail and why do some succeed? so the answer to that question, we studied 75 major undertakings by the end of world war ii until recently. looking for patterns of success and failure. we were looking for journeys to success

he picked george bush. bush was loyal to him. he was able to get more responsibilities and duties as vice president because of that loyalty. host: pledge, michigan, independent line. -- flint, michigan, independent line. caller: the question i have is a long the bush-kan . it seems that george bush was delectable but dick cheney was the brains -- was electable but dick cheney was the brains. george bush did not seem intelligent, did not have a good grasp of english language. dick cheney seem to be deep shadow president. -- the shadow president with any vice-president who had as much power as dick cheney? thank you. guest: i would say the first vice-president was given a law power, and this may surprise you, was richard nixon. -- given a lot of power, and this may surprise you, was richard nixon propose eis -- was richard nixon. eisenhower rantings very tightly. -- ran things very tightly. as a matter of liaison with congress, there were two episodes where eisenhower used richard nixon as his point man. one was the civil rights bi

he inferred, for george bush to begin the war in iraq -- before george bush became president there wasnformation on iraq coming from england and other foreign countries. and from the previous administration of clinton and hillary clinton herself all agreed this was going on in iraq. i want to know why you try to blame it on the vice-president? guest: i think it is one thing to have information that saddam hussein may be trying to build things. it is another to use it to justify invading the country. there are other things that could have been done. and that were being done with saddam hussein to keep him lockblocked in. he was a terrible leader. the country is prole better for the fact that he was not there. it caused diversion from afghanistan and the loss of 4000 americans. and and told people being permanently disabled. there is quite a price to pay for whatever results we are getting. host: you spoke earlier about the technology challenges facing us -- though tsa and cia watchless. there is a lead story this morning on tracking sex crime offenders. it gets trickier. . . it brings t

former president george h.w. bush the former soviet president, mikhail gorbachev and former german chancellor helmet coal attended this ceremony. president bush said the wall's collapse had more to do with the determination of everyday people than the power of governments. >> the historic events we are gathered to celebrate were set in motion not in bonn or moscow or in washington but rather in the hearts and minds of people who had too long been deprooiched their god-given rights. and the wall could confine them from loved ones and lock them in a failing economic system, but in the end it could not extinguish the embers of their undying hope or harness their human desire for freedom. >> kohl called the fall of the berlin wall his proudest moment as chancellor. >>> two men accused in a terrorism investigation face an

i remember 1992 when george h. w. bush had approval ratings of 90% out of the gulf war. n lloyd bentsen and the big lines in the democratic party decided not to run because george h. w. bush was so popular and took a pass and that made an opening for this southern governor named bill clinton. when people tell me barack obama is automatic for reelect, i remind them how the landscape can change. >> one aspect of the presidency that has unfolded, perhaps not the way he wanted, is the level of conflict we continue to see in washington. for that matter, in the public reaction. he was introduced to the country in 2004 in his initial speech as someone who would transcend boundaries of red and blue and ideological and cultural and racial boundaries. yet here we are, health care or -- health care bills, one republican voted for it, no house republicans voted for the stimulus, only three in the senate. today, the latest weekly average in the gallup poll, a 68 point gap between his approval among democrats and republicans. by any measure, we still have a very polarized, partisan deb

he inferred, for george bush to begin the war in iraq -- before george bush became president there was information on iraq coming from england and other foreign countries. and from the previous administration of clinton and hillary clinton herself all agreed this was going on in iraq. i want to know why you try to blame it on the vice-president? guest: i think it is one thing to have information that saddam hussein may be trying to build things. it is another to use it to justify invading the country. there are other things that could have been done. and that were being done with saddam hussein to keep him lockblocked in. he was a terrible leader. the country is prole better for the fact that he was not there. it caused diversion from afghanistan and the loss of 4000 americans. and and told people being permanently disabled. there is quite a price to pay for whatever results we are getting. host: you spoke earlier about the technology challenges facing us -- though tsa and cia watchless. there is a lead story this morning on tracking sex crime offenders. it gets trickier. . . guest: if

guest: yes, george bush did those things and yes, we were left with a huge debt. t you can only say blame bush for so long and you have to cope with what you're left with. and that's where we are. but back to the previous caller. there is a principle of capitalism. you spend money to take money. there's an economic principle at work in the health care bill, which is you spend money to save money. if everybody isn't in the system, once you get everybody in the insurance pool, your overall health care costs will go down. now, that's a long process. but that is the principle that is embraced by most economists. guest: i get that. i just think there are two assumptions that are wrong that. the government is the federal organizer of this system. and the second is that there is no cost to the overall economy by hiking taxes to pay for this. i think that there is a cost. i think even democrats, certainly the clinton people got this, and they said it out loud, there is a cost to raising taxes. it slows economic growth. at a time like this, boy, that's not a small thing. ho

because ralph nader received 97,000 votes in florida and the margin of difference between al gore and george bush was five added 37 votes come it was somehow mr. nader's faults the we ended up with george w. bush. would like to point* out there were other eight other candidates and all of them received more than 537 votes. that is not difficult. there were a number of other factors like how we purge five reelection roles and the prevention of the u.s. supreme court, but what happened at the end of the day my means third parties and independents are spoilers. it is really hard to spoil an already spoiled system. it is spoiled because of the structural problems but one of the two major parties, the democratic in 2004 made sure that ralph nader would not get on the ballot and brought 24 lawsuits in 12 weeks to stifle competition as the democratic party on the ground and in a number of states. i don't know how many people here have been sued it is very rare. imagine getting 24 lawsuits and appeared of 12 weeks before you have a cup of coffee he would open debates reading service of summons and saying

because ralph nader received 97,000 votes in florida and the margin of difference between al gore and george bush was 537 votes, that it was somehow all mr. nader's fault that we ended up with george w. bush. i'd like to point out that there were other minor party candidates in fact on the ballot and all of them received more than 537 votes. that's not difficult. of course, there were a number of other fat earthlike katherine harris, the florida supreme court, the invention of the supreme court. but what happened at the end of the day as they became some kind of a national media that a third-party or independent are quote, unquote spoilers. but it's really, really hard to spoil and already spoils system. and these are -- and it spoiled because of the structural problems. but what engendered was that one of the two major parties you can guess one, the democratic party in 2004 made it its mission to make sure that ralph nader would not get on the ballot and brought 24 lawsuits in the period of 12 weeks to try to stifle competition. the democratic party or its allies on the ground in a number of sta

but when she came on the scene, george bush, too. but when palin came on the scene, i felt that i needed to vote for somebody who was in my corner. >> thank you very much. >> you're welcome. >> what about you two? >> definitely, palin. >> i'm sorry. you said that she knows what the country needs. what does the country need? >> the country needs honesty, they want to hear the truth. and we're not hearing the truth right now. we're hearing a convoluted information that we have... totally confusing on the matters. and you think you are voting for one thing and really it could be twisted around and tied up into another piece of legislation that will then make it something we haven't really voted for and that is what scares me. i think we need someone that tells us the straight story and we're not getting that. >> and your name and where you from. >> i'm linda hogan from cincinnati, ohio and this is my daughter, jill. >> hi. i think that sarah palin is a real voice for america, and she has a platform to stick up for us, and to give americ

they become extremely -- george bush was an alcoholic. he became very, very religious, it was all about the lord. it's like another addiction in a certain way. >> addicts are prone to extremes. relidge yosty, i don't see that that much. you would be surprised. >> george bush would have appreciated a 12-step program. he would have been a better guy. a dry drunk. >> you have eight good looking sex addicts living together. isn't that a recipe for disaster? >> no, that's professional environment. yes, drug addicts do drugs, they do them together. >> drug addicts is different. that's no drugs around. >> we really wanted it. >> wanted what? >> i really wanted sexual sobriety. these people came to the end of the road. there was flirtation. you wanted sobriety more than you wanted to get laid again. >> we had them dress a certain way, they were not allowed to touch each other. >> what about during the night? >> we were in bed by 10:00. >> we watched them. we watch for sexual improe pry tis. we could not monitor masturbation. >> did you confess ab

the 14th amendment applies to other people besides george bush. the 14th amendment is equal protection and belongs to everybody. all rights commonly available to you, me, and everybody that's watching are available to all people. regardless -- that's why it was very important that the hate crimes legislation for the first time barack obama put the whole glbt, transgendered, too, into federal law. that was the first time there was ever a law that mentioned in federal law gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered people. now, he's got to -- >> why is it that whenever they put it on a ballot, a proposition or anything it dies? >> so much money goes in the district. you have church money coming in which, you know, separation of church and state. they kind of like it, but, you know, then the churches get involved and they -- they like their tax exempt status but don't want to stay out of politics. you get this money coming in from people. i think maine saw -- even this hoffman guy in new york 23, all the money came from outside the district. maine, same

they become extremely -- george bush was an alcoholic. he became very, very religious, it was all about the lord. it's like another addiction in a certain way. >> addicts are prone to extremes. relidge yosty, i don't see that that much. you would be surprised. >> george bush would have appreciated a 12-step program. he would have been a better guy. a dry drunk. >> you have eight good looking sex addicts living together. isn't that a recipe for disaster? >> no, that's professional environment. yes, drug addicts do drugs, they do them together. >> drug addicts is different. that's no drugs around. >> we really wanted it. >> wanted what? >> i really wanted sexual sobriety. these people came to the end of the road. there was flirtation. you wanted sobriety more than you wanted to get laid again. >> we had them dress a certain way, they were not allowed to touch each other. >> what about during the night? >> we were in bed by 10:00. >> we watched them. we watch for sexual improe pry tis. we could not monitor masturbation. >> did you confess ab

bush hurt sarah palin. the country went through eight years of george w. bush, two unpopular wars. bush's on popularity was extremely high. we entered a recession in december 2007. there are similarities between her political profile and the political profile of george w. bush. the bush hang over is going to continue for some time, limiting her ceiling as a political future. otherwise i was fascinated with the reaction to my book, her book, her as a person. she is not going anywhere. that is for sure. everyone has an opinion, she seems to like to be in the middle of things. host: her book comes out tomorrow, officially. matthew continetti has been talking about his b matthew continetti has been talking matthew continetti has

i remember 1992 or 1991 when george h. w. bush had approval ratings of 90 out of the gulf war, and that is at a time when lloyd bentsen and the big guns in the democratic party decided not to run because george h. w. bush was so popular, and that created an opening for this southern governor named bill clinton. the people who tell me that obama is automatic for reelect, i remind them how quickly this landscape can change. >> one thing that unfolded perhaps not the way he wanted is the level of conflict we continue to see in washington and also in the public reaction. he was introduced to the country in 2004 in his initial speech as someone who would transcend ideological boundaries, cultural boundaries, racial boundaries, and yet, here we are -- health care bill this weekend, one republican voted for. no house republicans voted for the stimulus bill. only three in the senate. the latest weekly average in the gallup poll, there is a 68 percentage -- 68-point gap between his approval rating for democrats and republicans. i think we

both of them sound like they have an iq of 90, just like george of the bush. -- george w. could chris dodd got his seat from his father. we have no merit to any more. host: next call, independent line. caller: can you hear me? host: yes, we can. caller: i was willing to lend an ear to him until he mentioned sarah palin and lawrence came out. -- the horns came out. with the media bias, i will buy sarah palin's book. the media went out of the way to lend a stir -- to lambaste her. i saw the foot of katie couric at the state dinner. -- for a graph of katie couric at the state dinner. host: you have been watching a long time. i showed that the first hour. caller: there were photographs of her dancing and some of it was very raunchy but none of it was in the media. if it were sarah palin, it would have. that is the problem with the country come out media bias grid with rush limbaug c-span.or = -- problem with the country, a media bias. with a rush limbaugh, i'm not a fan of him, but he was not allowed to buy the nfl team. and yet keep older men is so liberal -- keith olbermann

yes i agree with that case but i don't see that much. >> george bush would have appreciated a 12-step program i'm sure. >> he should have gone through it. >> he would have been a better guy, i'm sure. >> on your show you have eight good-looking sex addicts living together? isn't that a recipe for disaster? [ laughter ] >> maybe "the joy behar show" but we keep the drug addicts together. they do drugs together. >> there's no drugs around but people are there, good looking people. >> but we really wanted it. that's the difference. >> we really wanted what? >> sobriety. >> i really wanted sexual sobriety and a lot of those people were desperate, my friend jenny, all of the people had come to the end of the road. of course there was flirtation and kind of the immediate kind of like oh, yeah, that's cute or this is cute but the point is that you wanted sobriety more than you wanted to get laid again. >> and we helped them in that, had them dress a certain way, not allowed to touch each other. we were on them constantly. >> during the night? come on. >> it's impossible. >> we were in bed by

that's why it was possible for george bush and the republicans to become competitive again. i think those voters are very much in play in part of the history that will play out. >> i think the three words i would say, would be disengaged and mistrustful and distrustful and transient. the disengage, you know, most independents i believe don't follow. they don't love politician. they don't follow it that closely. if they cared deeply, they would be democrats or republicans or liberals or conservatives. if they cared that much, they would have gravitated to one side or the other. there's fundamental things they mistrust about each party, which keeps them from jumping in bed with one side or the other. and the gravitation pulls the tides. here completely floating around. and with iraq and they shifted over towards democrats. they did the same thing this 2008 and then, now they're starting to sort of kind of switch back the other way. but they're just floating around in a -- it doesn't take much for them to all start moving one way or the other. i watch joe and am lex and tony on

senior elder statesman of the field, having been a senior political advisor to ronald reagan, george h.w. bush, and for the john mccain campaign. there is steve schmidt, the day- to-day manager of the mccain campaign and the george w. bush 2004 election campaign. i have some of that slightly wrong, but it is right in the biography, right? right. hilary rosen was in the recording industry association of america. she is also a member of rock the vote. ted devine, i saw him on the moon walk this morning. he was getting done its on jackson square. i think you have 17 winning democratic campaigns. you worked for kerry and gorda. -- gore. we have kiki mclean. president callan nasa may -- president how one asked mcowen t influence do they have on what the candidates will say or are you just a hired gun who is not there to provide the device? -- provide the advice? >> the fact is that sometimes we work for candidates. i think we believe in all of the candidates, even if they are people we just met and have not known long time before we work for them. but, in some cases, we do work with somebody we hav

bush. i think the shirt palin. the country had gone through eight years of george w. bush. we had gone through two wars on bush's unpopularity was extremely high. and we were also entering a recession in december 2007. and there are some similarities between her political profile and george w. bush is. and to that extent i think she was hurt by the bush hangover which i think it's going to continue for some time. they limit her ceiling, if you will, the political future. otherwise, i'm just fascinated with the reaction to my book, with reaction to her book, reaction to her as a person. she's not going anywhere. that's for sure. everyone has an opinion about sarah palin and she seems to like being in the middle of this. >> host: her book comes out tomorrow, officially. but matthew continetti has been talking about his book, "the persecution of sarah palin". we appreciate your time. >> guest: thank you. [applause] >> we want to start off by thanking everyone it's nice to see all the faces. the question we've been getting a lot of how the book came out about him throughout the

>> no, i used to be a democrat but when she came on the scene, george bush, too, but when palin came on the scene on felt that i needed to vote for somebody who was in my corner. >> thank you very much. what about you to? [laughter] i'm sorry. you said she knows what the country needs. what does the country need? >> the country needs honesty. they want to hear the truth and we are not hearing the truth right now. we are hearing a convoluted information that's totally confusing on the matters. we can think we are voting for one thing but really it can be all twisted around and tied up into another piece of legislature that will then make it something we didn't really vote for and that's what scares me. i think we need someone that tells the story and we are not getting better. >> your name and where to or from? >> my name is linda hogan from cincinnati ohio jill. >> i think that sarah palin is a voice for america and has a platform to stick up for us and give america the change, the actual -- people are talking about change. she is the change we need. >> you look familiar. [laughter]

on the afternoon before the election, he predicted and changed his long hand bet that george w. bush would both out gore by an elect form margin of 320-218. he earlier in the day picked 305-320, much closer. his long hand betting card, then 10 days after the bet, he sent me a letter on supreme court stationery, one of the few formal letters i ever received, asking to be excused from a $1 bet, because, and i'm going to quote, it is remotely possible that the florida election case might come to our court. i will point out to you that the long hand betting card with the corrections and the letter are reproduced in my book. i think one of the more interesting parts of it. i also explained why he believed that he and his colleagues acted couragely and patriotically when they decided twice to get involved in the bush-gore disputed elections. he knew that taking on the case would be a thankless assignment, regardless of which candidate won, the justices would be vilified, harassed and subjected to vitriole. he and my wife went to the movies two to three saturday nights out of every month an

to do with anyone having anything to do with george bush.and the obama administration read that as an endorsement of massive expansion in health care, in raising taxes to do it. he promised he would do it and he is moving through. just reading it as an endorsement of everything rather than stopping and taking a moment to check in and see how everybody is doing. i think there's a moving dynamic of the economy that popped up at the very end of the campaign. obama i think has demured during that time is part of why he ended up doing that well he came through as doing through as the solid leader as opposed to mccain. guest: mccain got sucker punched. he's a foreign defense guy and he gets side swiped by the economy. and that's the way it should have gone honestly. it's important but when you have unemployment at double digits what are you supposed to do? guest: and the problem is that most primary concern right now is jobs, the economy. there's still an enormous amount of economy. anywhere you go, unemployment at at 10% and rising. and health ca

bush's -- george w. bush's administration, and you may remember her from the coupon program. kim hart is a reporter with the the hill newspaper, writes the silicon valley column. next question, please. >> host: i guess following up on the spectrum question, we know senator kerry and congressman waxman have introduced spectrum inventory bills that they'd looking at to try to get a better sense of what the agencies themselves have. since you're familiar with that, is there a possibility that maybe reallocation of what the defense department, for example, has or the military has says to in terms of maybe some sharing of that spectrum as you mentioned before, or do you have any ideas on that? >> guest: i think that's a valid question to ask. there was a executive order from president bush that actually called far strategic plan, and ntia actually did do a federal strategic plan looking at the spectrum that the federal agencies used. we need to do the same thing at the fcc, and then we need to bring those two plans together and see if there's some room for us to, you know, possibl

who basically, imagine if barack obama got up in the morning today and said, i got a great idea, george bush's tax cuts are terrific, we need more of those. what would happen to the democratic party. that's what a crist did, but -- that's the big story, that's by the way, what just won the middle, in tuesday's elections. and there's been a road test. and -- and i think if an -- in addition to that republicans can actually demonstrate a little more positive vision it'll work real well. but i think the biggest danger, we're -- republicans aren't split right now at all. >> quev had this bizarre conversation and haven't mentioned afghanistan. the -- let me tell you a sad story. a sad story. we did a small american outpost and that outpostwas out gunned and we lost eight soldiers in one encounter. i was doing tracking after the health care speech and we this that enormously sad video of dead american soldiers being dragged through the streets and the president's approval rating dropped 12 point the in one night. the president, what i like and admire, he didn't release the photos, he's not pressed p

reappointed after bush was considered to be a politician vitti was reappointed and greenspan is extreme right-wing. then you have years later mr. bernanke is appointed by the right wing republican george w. bush. and a liberal democrat wants to reappoint him. what is going on? people believe there is a difference between a first bush clinton and a second bush and obama? >> guest: first of all, there has not been a change in the new regulations that come on to the financial world between any of the to administration changes. >> host: i will back up. raising an interesting point*, not a democratic republic in body essentially would you are saying the differences everyday, the key financial issues how we do with wall street and who is head of the fed. >> it seems like one of the least partisan things in washington because if you look at the sheer regulations that are passed the continuation of the fed chairman under the changes from republican to democrat both times, there is not a tremendous amount of difference. there is more financial deregulation done under clinton. >> host: and secretary of treasury? >> guest: who also was associated with goldman sachs. this has to do with wall stre

. >> president george bush: but there's another way for the bloodshed to stop. >> pelley: the elder president urged iraqis to overthrow their dictator. >> bush: to take matters into their own hands... >> pelley: the ma'dan and other shiites in the south supported an uprising to topple saddam's regime. the marshes, known for ages as a smuggler's paradise, turned out to be a perfect place for the rebels to hide, with their endless maze of waterways, like these on the iranian border. but in 1991, when the allies withdrew, saddam turned eden into hell. >> alwash: the united nations environmental program called it the biggest engineered environmental disaster of the last century. >> pelley: saddam tried to wipe out the marsh arabs by destroying their world. he built six canals to divert the waters of the tigris and euphrates out into the desert and the persian gulf. in a five-year project, 90% of the marshes were drained, an area of more than 3,000 square miles. >> alwash: as an engineer, i'm telling you, drying of the marshes is definitely not an easy task. it's a monumental engineering project.

here is the nephew of the president, george t. bush, hispanic, biracial, marrying a white woman in maine. interestingly, actually it's an interesting story because the race george t. bush and his wife, so far as i could tell she is white was never ever mentioned in any of the news report. but the portland sunday telegram in maine actually read an editorial noticing that the state was 97% white and that the children in the states, because of that lap of democratic diversity were missing out on something important. for in ten teenagers in this country have dated someone of a different race, not the irish boys dating the italian girl. three in ten say these are serious relationships. interracial marriage has exploded in the united states today. and barack obama got it. barack obama understood in 2008 that his race was not a liability. it was announced that in this new demographic environment. he said, i think if you tell people we have a president in the white house who still has a grandmother living in a hut on the shore of lake victoria

former president george h.w. bushe last soviet leader and former german chancellor were honored in berlin. bush said the wall's collapse had more to do with the determination of everyday people than the power of big governments. >> the historic events we are gathered to celebrate were set the in motion not in moscow or washington but rather in the hearts and minds of people who had too long been deprived their god-given of rights. and the wall could confine them from loved ones and lock them in a failing economic system, but in the end it could not extinguish the embers of their undying hope or harness their human desire for freedom. >> germany's former chancellor said the fall of the berlin wall was his proudest moment. >>> the suspect in a deadly iraq bombing managed to kill someone during a police interrogation. the iraq's interior ministry says he grabbed a gun from a guard and shot an investigator. the investigator wrestled the gun back and shot the suspect. both died from their injuries. the suspect also wounded

they become extremely -- george bush was an alcoholic. and then he became very, very religious and it was all about the lord. it's like another addiction in a certain way. >> addicts are prone to extremes. they really are. but religiousness, i don't see that that much. you would be surprised. i see it in that case, but i don't see that much of it. >> george bush would have been a better guy. >> now, on your show, you have eight good looking sex addicts living together. isn't that a recipe for disaster? >> well, maybe in the boudoir behar environment. but this is -- >> drug addicts, there are no drugs around. but people are there, good looking people. >> we really wanted it. >> you really wanted what? >> i really wanted sobriety, sexual sobriety. a lot of those people were desperate. like my friend jenny, all of those people had come to the end of the road. of course, there was flirtation. of course there were the immediate kind of, oh, that's cute, but the point is, but you wanted sobriety more than you wanted to get laid again. >> we had

. >> other people during the bush administration, myself included, took many shots at george bush being dumb. okay, the truth hurts, but still. >> well, i think bush was latino too, because he lived in a house that wasn't his and english wasn't his first language. >> you see, that's my point. >> you can catch "the joy behar show" 9:00 p.m. eastern time right here on hln. tonight's guest, nia vfrom "my big fat greek wedding." >>> clients pay for what they want to for the arrangement then the sisters change the money into plours and leaves. >> even funerals, we've had people buy it. you send it to the house, and that way the people if they want to use the money to donate, they can, if not, they can use it for expenses. >> that's kind of nice. kind of cool. the business based in canada, they make arrangement made here in the u.s. using u.s. dollars as well. you can go to moneycreationsbysandy.com. >>> a group of volunteers now stepping forward to help answer letters from santa claus. yesterday we told you that the u.s. post office is stopping its service of answering letters sent to

george bush had smaller events -- $80,000 in the state dining room.his one, 3 one20 guests -- with 320 guests is like a big, lavish wedding. >> to the white house indicate whether or not people feel like they are in a tent tonight? will they need to come back into the white house? >> one of the tricks that they do -- i talked to a white house usher about that. there is nothing fancy about 10. they put a floor on that and they try to keep people's eyes up. -- it is a tent. there are wall hangings, so you do not feel like you're in a tent. >> who is the bigger headline, president obama or first lady michelle obama? >> it has to be the first lady. there she was in this gorgeous dress. he is in the commander -- the commander in chief, but he wore a tuxedo. the first lady chose the china pattern. the headliner tomorrow will be "mrs. obama." >> we want to show our viewers to more -- some more of actinides entrances into the east part of the white house, including house speaker nancy pelosi. -- some more of the entrances into the east part of the white house

bush. and -- george h.w. bush. and john mccain and alongside you steve schmitt who was the manager of the mccain company and the george w. bush 2004 election campaign. i have some of that slightly wrong but is in the bio right. hillary rosen was for a long time chair of the recording industry of america. also a founder of rock to vote, a democratic strategist. teddy vine who i saw on the moon walk this morning getting his coffee and do nuts in front of jackson square. think you've had 17 winning independence campaigns and you work for kerry and gore, helping the senior strategist on their campaigns. and kiki mclean senior advisor to hillary clinton. and you were the advicer for d.n.c. president cow went asked me to -- off our lunch, said, i've got one question. if a political consultant really feels strongly about something for the good of both the campaign and the government or whatever, what influence do they have on what the candidate will say are you really just a hired gun who's not there to provide the advice,

yes i agree with that case but i don't see that much. >> george bush would have appreciated a 12-step program i'm sure. >> he should have gone through it. >> he would have been a better guy, i'm sure. >> on your show you have eight good-looking sex addicts living together? isn't that a press pi for disaster? [ laughter ] >> maybe "the joy behar show" but we keep the drug addicts together. they do drugs together. >> there's no drugs around but people are there, good looking people. >> but we really wanted it. that's the difference. >> we really wanted what? >> sobriety. >> i really wanted sexual sobriety and a lot of those people were desperate, my friend jenny, all of the people had come to the end of the road. of course there was flirtation and kind of the immediate kind of like oh, yeah, that's cute or this is cute but the point is that you wanted sobriety more than you wanted to get laid again. >> and we helped them in that, had them dress a certain way, not allowed to touch each other. we were on them constantly. >> during the night? come on. >> it's impossible. >> we were in bed

. >> george bush and that administration left us with a lot of that crap in my opinion. >> my opinionwell. >> we're agreed on that. just yesterday rush limbaugh said obama is very narcissistic and is over his head. what do you think of that? >> rush thinks somebody's narcissistic? >> yes, yes, i know, the chutzpa. >> he's a wonderful entertainer, rush. i think that's a very funny comment. well done, rush. >> i don't think he meant it to be funny. >> he is. he does. isn't he one of the highest paid entertainers? >> yes. >> so he's an entertainer. >> i think he's worth, like, going to be making or made $400 million. >> right. so that -- yes. the people of the people, rush, one of us, yeah. those are the people that really piss me off, to be honest. i totally understand people who are angry and are fearful. i understand people who church is a huge part of their life. i understand people not wanting their daughters to watch mtv. i understand and have empathy for all those people. the people that come along and make use of those people's fears and insecurities to make money or to make some

. >> george bush not the greatest -- that's conservative columnist david brooks' less than flattering take on sarah palin on "abc this week." we're back talking about palin's one-hour interview with oprah winfrey. before i go further, kinky, you said before this whole palin thing reflects more on us than it does on her. what do you exactly mean by that? >> i don't agree with her on virtually everything except one point and that is she's right about the katie couric thing. new yorkers tend to -- they've got their -- they're culture bound. most people don't go five blocks out of their own neighborhood. yet if you are from alaska or texas or someplace else, i saw this with the bbc when i did an interview in scotland once. the people in london on the line were saying, kinky, what are you doing up there in the wilderness up there? i mean, not only is scotland a very cultural place which gave the world sherlock holmes -- robert louis stevenson, and -- >> the kilt. >> the scottish people were very insulted by the london attitude of the bbc toward -- >> the elitism of it. >> that's all it is.

. >> george bush not the greatest -- that's conservative columnist david brooks' less than flattering take on sarah palin on "abc this week." we're back talking about palin's one-hour interview with oprah winfrey. before i go further, kinky, you said before this whole palin thing reflects more on us than it does on her. what do you exactly mean by that? >> i don't agree with her on virtually everything except one point and that is she's right about the katie couric thing. new yorkers tend to -- they've got their -- they're culture bound. most people don't go five blocks out of their own neighborhood. i saw this with the bbc when i did an interview in scotland once. the people in london on the line were saying, kinky, what are you doing up there in the wilderness up there? i mean, not only is scotland a very cultural place which gave the world sherlock holmes -- >> the kilt. >> the scottish people were very insulted by the london attitude of the bbc toward -- >> the elitism of it. >> that's all it is. some of that. >> david brooks is an elite in the republican party, like the intellect

. >> george bush and that administration left us with a lot of that crap in my opinion. >> my opinionwell. >> we're agreed on that. just yesterday rush limbaugh said obama is very narcissistic and is over his head. what do you think of that? >> rush thinks somebody's narcissistic? >> yes, yes, i know, the chutzpa. >> he's a wonderful entertainer, rush. i think that's a very funny comment. well done, rush. >> i don't think he meant it to be funny. >> he is. he does. isn't he one of the highest paid entertainers? >> yes. >> so he's an entertainer. >> i think he's worth, like, going to be making or made $400 million. >> right. so that -- yes. the people of the people, rush, one of us, yeah. those are the people that really piss me off, to be honest. i totally understand people who are angry and are fearful. i understand people who church is a huge part of their life. i understand people not wanting their daughters to watch mtv. i understand and have empathy for all those people. the people that come along and make use of those people's fears and insecurities to make money or to make some

former president george h.w. bush gorbachev and helmut cole were there. bush said the collapse had more to do with the power of everyday people than the power of big governments. >> the historic events we were gathered to celebrate were set in motion not in bond moscow or washington, but rather in the hearts and minds of people who had too long been deprived their god-given rights. and the world could confine them from loved ones, lock them in a failing economic system, but in the end it could not extinguish the embers of their undying hope or harness their human desire for freedom. >> helm kohl said the fall of the wall was his proudest moment. >>> an iraqi immigrant accused of running down his daughter because she was too westernized has been extradited. he was arrested in the atlanta airport on thursday. he tried to fly to the united kingdom but was denied entrance and returned to the united states. he's accuse of running over his daughter withes i h car because he didn't think she was living according to tradition

they are not keeping the kind of record data that will enable you to really find out today what george bush was really thinking before he went into iraq. you know, we're going to have to make do with the myth and the filters and images. and i wanted to do better than that. i was done that he wanted to do better than that. he was thinking about those things even before he took office. >> host: describe briefly 1972. how well did you know him? >> guest: we live together. were the two texas coordinator he asked if he could bring his new girlfriend, hillary, to our apartment so the three of us got an apartment together. hillary also worked in other states and even bill and i had the time, we were traveling all over like water bugs in the big state of texas. we didn't spend all that much time together. we were technically responsible for the state. we made lots of decisions and getting shellacked the way we did by richard nixon in 1972, is a bonding experience. when you are that bloodied. so we got along very well. we saw each other a lot but i don't have any major fight. when we left texas, it

program, and the cullins, and nobody has mentioned the fact that in 1999 and the year 2000, when george w. bush was running for president that he was prosecuting the gay people and was against gay people, against marriage. gay people will never be able to get married if you vote for me. and in 2003, 2004, he was on tv all the time of long with his saying that if the democrats take over, there will be gay marriage. you know, and i believe the bashing of gays started in 2000 as mack 1999, due to the republican party and president george w. bush. what is your comment on that? >> guest: i think the red it definitely made those who are against the geeky nerd already feel justified in the way they felt. and i think it moved many of them forward to commit physical violence or emotional, verbal violence certainly. i am there with you. i think the rhetoric definitely created a charge at mr. against the geeky beauty. >> host: three more calls left for judy shepard. >> caller: my best wishes to you. i am sorry i missed you in san francisco that i am on the phone here with my partner of 25 years. and we ju

but when she came in on the scene -- just george bush, too. but when palin came on the scene, i felt that i needed to vote for somebody who was in my corner. >> thank you very much. >> oh, what about you two? >> definitely. >> i'm sorry. you said that she knows what the country needs. what does the country need? >> the country needs honesty, they want to hear the truth. and we're not hearing the truth right now. we're hearing a convoluted information that is totally confusing on matters. we can think we're voting for one thing, but really it can be alled around and tied up into another piece of the legislature that will then make it something that we didn't really vote for. and that's what scarce me. i think we need someone to tell us the your name and where you're from? >> my name is linda and i'm from cincinnati, ohio. and this is my daughter jill. >> hi. i think that sarah palin is a real voice for america. and she has a platform to stick up for us and to give america the change -- the actual -- people are talking about change. she is the c

because ralph nader receive 97,000 votes in florida and the margin of difference between al gore and george bush was 537 votes that somehow it was mr. nader's fault that we ended up with george w. bush profile like to point* out there were other eight party candidates and all of them received more than 537 votes. that is not difficult. there were a number of other factors like how we purge broder elections and the florida supreme court and united states supreme court and at the end of the day it was a national means that third parties or independence are spoilers but it is hard to spoil an already spoils system. because of the structural problems but you can guess which parties the democratic in 2004 major ralph nader would i get on the ballot and brought 24 lawsuits in a period of 12 weeks to stifle competition as the democratic party or the allies on the ground in a number of states. i don't know how many people here who have been sued. anybody? imagine getting 24 in a period of 12 weeks before he will lead start drinking his coffee he would say this is what democracy looks like. that systemic

ambassador to hungary, and most recently was the chief of protocol under george bush. george w. ush. please help me welcome the founder of susan g. komen for the cure, ambassador nancy brinker. [applause] >> thank you so much for that kind introduction. it is great to be with you all here today. i would like to take a moment to introduce three important people of our organization that came to be here. clement jackson, our chairman of the board. live thompson, vice president of global health, and jennifer larae, president of advocacy here in washington. i'm proud to be here with everybody from the organization. i think all of us wish that we were here to announce susan g. komen for the cure has found a cure for breast cancer and we are out of business. i think we look for to that day when we can make that announcement. i'm confident that we will find it but it takes a great deal of work and we have to focus on what we know. and what works is what we know. early detection, awareness, research, and treatment -- and, i guess, screening, mammography, and self awareness. the five-year

that's why it was possible for george bush and the republicans to become competitive again. i think those voters are very much in play in part of the history that will play out. >> i think the three words i would say, would be disengaged and mistrustful and distrustful and transient. the disengage, you know, most independents i believe don't follow. they don't love politician. they don't follow it that closely. if they cared deeply, they would be democrats or republicans or liberals or conservatives. if they cared that much, they would have gravitated to one side or the other. there's fundamental things they mistrust about each party, which keeps them from jumping in bed with one side or the other. and the gravitation pulls the tides. here completely floating around. and with iraq and they shifted over towards democrats. they did the same thing this 2008 and then, now they're starting to sort of kind of switch back the other way. but they're just floating around in a -- it doesn't take much for them to all start moving one way or the other. i watch joe and am lex and tony on