the democratic-- the democratic idea since at least lyndon baines johnson can be summed up in three words, tax and spend, okay? that's what they do and barack obama in that cleveland speech said, he calls it investment. he's going to invest in education, infrastructure, energy, research and development. >> paul: but you wrote this week that you think that could be a winning message because of the way he pitches it and the focus on the middle class. >> yes. i think there is tremendous anxiety out there in the country among the electorate and the middle class. people are upset and they don't know why the economy is performing as badly as it is and they want it to get better. and it will be up to either of those two candidates to tell those anxious people why his ideas are going to make it better. and i think if the president keeps drilling and drilling on himself as the protector of the middle class, without a reputation by romney, it could work. >> all right, kim, how do you think romney should respond and is he likely to, the way that dan says he needs to? >> well, this is the romney chal

you know lyndon baines johnson president johnson in one nine hundred sixty added rice paddies and his and the oval office and making tactical calls in washington for vietnam this is the same thing just done of a larger global scale with better technology we have not gotten any smarter now as i will say this about the libby attack today this is one of those times i would have taken the shot because this guy was truly bad he was captured two thousand to a state in two thousand and five propaganda guy very effective in messaging and frankly he was the commander control now doing a lot of things but let me be very clear on is so you know because i don't be consistent here i have never said we shouldn't do drone strikes i said we should be very very sparing in how we do it this would have been one of those i would have taken the shot but the rest of them i don't think i would have done based on the fact we didn't have good intelligence and frankly how many number twos can you kill a year i mean i think this is legit number two the other one you got to worry about you got to ask our questio

. >> lyndon baines johnson. >> right. so when i look at a society that says sandra day o'connor said when they had the case on the question should you have set-asides for an african-american who won a contract in denver to install guardrails, there is no compelling federal interest to do that. now i will make a case at some point if you take the growth of the hispanic population and you take the growth of the african-american population, there will be a compelling federal interest to answer the question how long can we as a nation exist when minority unemployment is double that of white unemployment. it's been that way throughout my entire life. and i have been extremely successful in business. but i recognize that the problem inherent in black america is not lack of commitment to care for ourselves, not work ethic, not integrity, not transparency, not a desire to live in a two-parent household, none of that is endemic and built in our dna. but i will tell you what is built in the dna of america is a history, chronic hist

election it's not a lot of the like politicians do get elected one of our biggest president lyndon baines johnson was elected to the senate based on voter fraud it occurs in every single election i'd like to stop i don't think it ever will stop i think our voting . voting system encourages fraud it's part of how democracy works you know i think there was a famous person who said one once that it doesn't matter who it's not who goes that counts who counts the votes so i would like to see voter fraud prosecuted i don't think that it's the kind of thing that could ever be fully eradicated i just don't think there's any sort of system that can ever be devised that would be totally foolproof and that's why our founders didn't even really like democracy for the most part as a matter of fact a lot of the institutions of the united states are anti-democratic for that reason i think the founding fathers of the united states didn't like democracy which is why they created a republican form of government and court system that is anti-democratic so we libertarians shouldn't necessarily look to democracy is t

so right after that moment, even under lyndon baines johnson, there is an expansion of federal support for local law enforcement on the basis that black people's crime is a danger to civil society. and again, all of this may make sense to a viewer and to a listener, if they didn't know that those same threats to civil society, posed by european immigrants weren't treated in a fundamentally different way. that's the point. crime in and of itself was not sufficient to justify a punitive, law and order political response or a set of ideas that exist today as they did then that saw black people's crime as evidence of some moral inferiority, some natural propensity to want to hurt people or to steal things. for the european immigrant in the hands of a eugenicist, that was all true. "these people can't help themselves. they're a threat to society." but the progressives said, "no." and what's more telling about the progressives is they actually got rid of statistics. they stopped using the language of statistics, "15% of all crimes in this city are committed by the irish, another 45% by the i

to the left book ended by theodore roosevelt's progressive politics and culminating in the lyndon baines johnson administration. the question that i have is here is a man who is not only black, is painted red not as a socialist pink and is gay. he carries the tremendous burden of representing a kind of politics, personal empowerment wedded to social justice that costs people their lives particularly in the south, particularly the height of the mccarthy era which we haven't talked about in this discussion but certainly the letters you pulled together, war and state for politics in action which was committed to and i want to know what might we learn about his life that takes us from the 1940s to the 1980s in terms of the tremendous shift in the politics of the right and the real tremendous embrace of a kind of politics of resentment in this country and i want to at least offer one contexture will proof for the audience, the trade union movement has its high water market. and it is unionized. here is a source that you recently said, a lot of hopefulness, his optimism for a coalition politics that t

. >> lyndon baines johnson. >> right.nd so when i look at a society that says that sandra day o'connor said on the question of should you have set asides for an african-american who want a contract in denver to install guardrails, say there is no compelling federal interest to do that. i will make a case at some point if you take the growth of the hispanic population and you take the growth of the african american population, there will be a compelling federal interest to answer the question how long can we as a nation exist when minority unemployment is double that of white unemployment? it's been that way throughout my entire life. and i have been extremely successful in business. but i recognize that the problem inherent in black america is not lack of commitment to care for ourselves, not work ethic, not integrity, not transparency, not a desire to live in a two-participant be household -- two-parent household. none of that. it's endemic and built in our dna. but i will tell you what is built in the dna of america is