i've been a michele balkman supporter and follower for quite a number of years, and i have to say all these well, she is most definitely not a hypocrite. she talks the talk and walks the walk and votes how she says she is going to vote. but i really am kind of torn, because i am so impressed with herman cain, and that really shows, you know, how strong of a candidate he is, because i've been steadfast that i'm a michele balkman supporter. and now i'm to a point where i'm kind of torn between the two of them, and i think his speech was one of the strongest speeches i've ever heard and within last point about people saying they are not discussing jobs. but a president does not create jobs, policies create or discourage job growth. so their going to the heart of the issue is that it's obama's policies that have to be repealed in order to get our economy restarted and going again so jobs creators are north no longer fearful of bringing on new hires. thank you for bringing on -- for taking my call. >> you're welcome. go ahead, next caller. caller: i'm amazed when quoting history the histor

i was really disappointed with michele balkman, because she just panders. she had a great sea pack but ever since then she just panders. so i'm real disappointed with her. >> do you have a candidate in this race? >> no. i'm kind of wandering through the field. thaddeus mccarter has a speech that put it into the 21st century and how we could be empowered through the internet with what's going on. and herman cain, i like him. i just like him. and rick santorum, i think he's getting a bad wrap from the media. and ron paul, he lives in fantasy land and is shown to be the most selfish kind of american there is. he doesn't want a foreign policy. and tim pawlenty is just an old ordinary politician, that's all he is. >> thank you. outside the coliseum where tim pawlenty and others have their tent and trying to erin courage people to vote at the straw polls. it's just past 4:00 and the voting has concluded. the calculations continue and are expected in the next hour. from houston, go ahead. thank you for waiting, andrew. caller: no problem. thank you for taking my c

. >> michele balkman >> i have a very consistent record of fighting very hard against barack obama and his unconstitutional members in congress. i brought tens of thousands of americans to washington to fight the unconstitutional, individual mandate. when it came to cap and trade, i fought it with everything that was in me, including i introduced the light bulb freedom of choice act so people could purchase levels of their choice. >> tim:t was the first remember they were also running against president obama. >> where's barack obama on these issues? you can't find his plans on some of the most pressing financial issues. where is barack obama's plan on social security reform, medicare reform, medicaid reform? anybody in this auditorium or anyone watching on television, if you can find barack obama's specific plan on those items, i will come to your house and cook your dinner. [ laughter ] [ cheering and applause ] >> or if you prefer, i will mow your lawn. in case he wins, i am limited to one acres. >> in the most interesting substantive question and relevance, all of the candidates wer

last night's event took place in the electric park lounge the very same place where michelle balkman announced her candidacy about five weeks ago. they had rick santorum and rick perry speak. they got there early and worked the crowds aggressively. ms. bachmann stayed away. she had a family reunion yesterday that and you some amount of her time. before her remarks she parked her bus down the road and waited and waited and waited. when she arrived, as always, she blasted the music and went in and made her speech, her speech was fairly typical for her and well-received. afterwards, unlike rick perry, she didn't take questions from the crowd. she did sign some autographs and shake some hands but then rather than interacting with iowa caucus goers and the republicans insistent on attention from the candidates she left the building and came out and held a press conference with the national media in front of her bus. afterwards there was a lot of con expressed by the organize organizers to me and other reporters it wasn't hard to hear them overtalking themselves these iowans that michele b

people like michele balkman who don't want to vote for any increase in the debt ceiling. it's hard to find a deal that she's going to support when she doesn't to want raise the debt ceiling. for democrats, there's really a sense among liberal groups and among democratic lawmakers that they got a bit rolled on this deal, and that president obama didn't quite go to the mat for them as hard as they would like, and their big gripe, of course, is the deal includes no taxevenues. that's a big problem. i think carrie can certainly speak better to this than i could, but i think the president is really going to have to sell this. guest: he is, and part of yesterday, democrats were coming out very strongly against it, and the white house aides were saying this is based on incomplete information, faulty reporting, really, from some information that had come out the night before. and they they felt when they briefed us last night that once democrats learned the details of this, they would become more comfortable. and there are certain things we're going to hear them talking about. th

my final question is are we going to ask rick perry, mitt romney, and michele balkman to see their birth certificates? thank you for having my call. guest: i have to say to the caller thank you very much. again, i know for many people who are not people of color, you probably get tired of the same question over and over and over again. but turn things around and put yourself in the position of a person of color who hears that large swath of the american public want to return to the 1950's. what does that mean if you are a black man or a black woman? you're a housekeeper? you live in a racially divided country, separate but equal? different bathrooms, water faucettes, everything. when you see people so adamant in saying i want to you prove that you are an american citizen and that you deserve to be in the office that you inhabit, you have to ask yourself, does not a large part of this have to do with the fact that people are so angry that we have somebody black who's leading the nation? guest: well, i can't deny that. the birth certificate thing is absurd. but most americans rejected it.

people like michele balkman who don't want to vote for any increase in the debt ceiling. it's hard to find a deal that she's going to support when she doesn't to want raise the debt ceiling. for democrats, there's really a sense among liberal groups and among democratic lawmakers that they got a bit rolled on this deal, and that president obama didn't quite go to the mat for them as hard as they would like, and their big gripe, of course, is the deal includes no tax revenues. that's a big problem. i think carrie can certainly speak better to this than i could, but i think the president is really going to have to sell this. guest: he is, and part of yesterday, democrats were coming out very strongly against it, and the white house aides were saying this is based on incomplete information, faulty reporting, really, from some information that had come out the night before. and they they felt when they briefed us last night that once democrats learned the details of this, they would become more comfortable. and there are certain things we're going to hear them talking about.

and i challenge the mitt romneys of the world and the rick perries, and michele balkmans and herman cain. i don't want to leave anybody out. gary johnson. i challenged him to accept this pledge. no pack money. no super packs formed. keep your limit at $2500. i can live with that. i'll keep mine at $1 00, and let's go get the american people. think it would energize the campaign. no more wall street fundraisers. they might hear something. oh, didn't know that. anybody else? yes, ma'am. >> i'm with the national general. i believe you said last weekend in new hampshire rather than traveling iowa with your other colleagues, my first question would be for the foreseeable time? >> i will concentrate on new hampshire. but south carolina, it's the only place i don't have a draw. so i will sneak into south carolina. i love iowa. i mean, my first speech, three months ago. all the other candidates are there. i get up in iowa, big crowd, and say we'll eliminate the ethanol subsidy. i thought they were going to have a heart attack. but i thought paw lenty and newt gingrich and the rest of them were g

this is how bad michelle balkman is beating the president in all the polls. newt gingrich, newt gingrich -- >> is that a surprise? >> newt gingrich is even with the president in all the polls. e.j. dione wrote a column that says not only does the president sound like jimmy carter, he's increasingl looking like jimmy carter. none of what we're talking about is going to solve the real-life problem the president has. we need to think much bigr, change the subject and present something brand-new to america so the president is seen as leading our way out of this to big things, not traditional leverages that we may have. i think the solution is to go back to what happened for america in 1940, 1941 before we entered thworld war when we were seen as the armament of democracy and we started to get the world ready to solve a problem. we need to do that now with energy and become the armament of energy. and i think therare only two ways for the president to go. they are polar opposites and we need to make the remmendation to the president for which one of these huge cou

balkman to see their birth certificates? thank you for having my call. guest: i have to say to the caller thank you very much. again, i know for many people who are not people of color, you probably get tired of the same question over and over and over again. but turn things around and put yourself in the position of a person of color who hears that large swath of the american public want to return to the 1950's. what does that mean if you are a black man or a black woman? you're a housekeeper? you live in a racially divided country, separate but equal? different bathrooms, water faucettes, everything. when you see people so adamant in saying i want to you prove that you are an american citizen and that you deserve to be in the office that you inhabit, you have to ask yourself, does not a large part of this have to do with the fact that people are so angry that we have somebody black who's leading the nation? guest: well, i can't deny that. the birth certificate thing is absurd. but most americans rejected it. i almost felt

i think michelle balkman and dennis kucinich presidentially. do you think putting aside the big government aspect that mandatory voting has one good aspect in that more people would vote and it would be more roughly representative of the whole society? >> that's an empirical question, obviously. but we know it does have participatory voting -- i mean mandatory voting and that's not planned politics and canada doesn't and it has fairly nicely run politics and can't imagine a country more centrist than canada, maybe switzerland who have lower rates than we do. but it doesn't correlate well between centrists. america is not a country -- look, i'm a libertarian. the problem with libertarians, two of them agree, so each of the other one has sold out. but that's part of america. we want to be a tolerant country but not a country that demands we all agree to consensus. and i think a lot of the contentions we feel about, can't we all be nice is our unhappiness that not everyone agrees with us. many of the examples norm gave are true. i mean, yes, chris

my final question is are we going to ask rick perry, mitt romney, and michele balkman to see their birth certificates? thank you for having my call. guest: i have to say to the caller thank you very much. again, i know for many people who are not people of color, you probably get tired of the same question over and over and over again. but turn things around and put yourself in the position of a person of color who hears that large swath of the american public want to return to the 1950's. what does that mean if you are a black man or a black woman? you're a housekeeper? you live in a racially divided country, separate but equal? different bathrooms, water faucettes, everything. when you see people so adamant in saying i want to you prove that you are an american citizen and that you deserve to be in the office that you inhabit, you have to ask yourself, does not a large part of this have to do with the fact that people are so angry that we have somebody black who's leading the nation? guest: well, i can't deny that. the birth certificate thing is absurd. but most americans rejected it.

i think michelle balkman and dennis kucinich presidentially. do you think putting aside the big government aspect that mandatory voting has one good aspect in that more people would vote and it would be more roughly representative of the whole society? >> that's an empirical question, obviously. but we know it does have participatory voting -- i mean mandatory voting and that's not planned politics and canada doesn't and it has fairly nicely run politics and can't imagine a country more centrist than canada, maybe switzerland who have lower rates than we do. but it doesn't correlate well between centrists. america is not a country -- look, i'm a libertarian. the problem with libertarians, two of them agree, so each of the other one has sold out. but that's part of america. we want to be a tolerant country but not a country that demands we all agree to consensus. and i think a lot of the contentions we feel about, can't we all be nice is our unhappiness that not everyone agrees with us. many of the examples norm gave are true. i mean, yes, chris

this is how bad michelle balkman is beating the president in all the pol. newt gingrich, newt gingrich -- >> is that a surprise? >> newt gingrich is even with the president in all the polls. e.j. dione wrote a column that says not only does the president sound like jimmy carter, he's increasingly looking like jimmy carter. none of what we're talking about is going to solve the real-life problem the president has. we need to think much bigger, change the subject and present something brand-new to america so the president is seen as leading our way out of this to big things, not traditional leverages that we may have. i think the solution is to go back to what happened for america in 1940, 1941 before we entered the world war when we were seen as the armament of democracy and we started to get the world ready t solve a problem. we need to do that now with energy and become the armament of energy. and i think there are only two ways for the president to go. they are polar opposites and we need to make the recommendation to the president for which one of these