Ok, just a short diary. Hopefully this will be on youtube soon so that everyone can see it! John Harwood just laid it all on the line and minced no words. He was just on MSNBC and the "host" kept feeding him opportunities to join the doom and gloom chorus about health care etc.. She was on in the Dr. Nancy segment, but it wasn't Dr. Nancy I don't think.
She started off with questions like wondering how realistic it is to expect that Obama could give a speech that would please all factions in the Democratic party and the Republicans. That of course is impossible, demanding that Obama has to make everyone happy to get anything done is idiotic on it's face. Harwood was having none of it, he hasn't given up and stated that Obama really is in pretty good shape on health care, that he has more strength in the House and thus will go that way. She then launched into what about the trigger option and so on. Harwood explained the trigger, but continued to maintain that Obama is in much better shape on health care than the CW currently believes.
So then she changed tacks, asking him what he thought about the controversy regarding Obama's upcoming speech to school children and John just laid the it on the line. Shaking his head in disbelief he basically said; "If people don't want their kids exposed to the president telling them to work hard at their studies and stay in school they are just stupid. Frankly it makes me worry that they are too stupid to be raising kids"!
The host was quite shocked of course, it was a sight to see. It was wonderful, more of this please. Please go thank John Harwood for being honest and not buying into the right wing spin.
Update [2009-9-4 14:22:31 by PLS]: Thanks for the Rec's so everyone get's to see this. I have to run some errands now, like taking my unemployment check to the bank, etc... I will check in when I get back.
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