Let's Face It, In America

Obesity Now Contributes To The Death Of More Than 360,000 Americans A Year. The Incidence Of Childhood Obesity Is Now At Epidemic Levels. Alarm Bells Are Going Off All Over The Place. But Our Government Has Done Virtually Nothing.

When Those Pictures Of Abu Ghraib Came Out, I Thought, My Gosh, This Is Like The Tiger Cages For Prisoners In Vietnam All Over Again. Only We Were Actually Doing It Ourselves, We Weren't Hiring Another Government To Do It.

When You Dig Down, People Are Pretty Progressive, By And Large. I Guess, I've Said It Many Times - That A Lot Of People Say We're A Conservative Country, That People Are Conservative. And My Response To That Is, Yes, That's True, And You Know What The People Want To Conserve Most? The Progressive Traditions Of Our Country - Freedom Of Speech, And Of The Press And Of Assembly. Freedom To Dissent. The Freedom To Practice Your Own Religion Or Not Practice Religion As You See Fit. Yes, We're Conservative! We Want To Conserve Those.

While President Bush's Tax Give-aways For The Rich Are Pushing Us Further Into Debt, He Compensates By Increasing The Out-of-pocket Costs To Our Veterans.

I Think The American People Said, Look, You Know, We Can't Control What Every Government Does To Its People, But We Shouldn't Be Aiding And Assisting A Government In Having These Kinds Of Repressive Prisons. It Added To The Public Outcry Against Our Involvement In Vietnam.