Arianna Discusses Obama's First 100 Days On Larry King Live (VIDEO)

Arianna appeared on a special edition of "Larry King Live," along with radio host Lars Larson, libertarian author Larry Elder, and Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, to discuss the first 100 days of the Obama Presidency.

Watch Arianna's full appearance below.

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Comments

[PlayTOE]

15% is still way too high
30% was insane.

[Roxanna]

I agree with Arianna Huffington.... The continued bank "bail out" with out seeing direct relief to the people below is a Failure. The banks are raking in on both levels and it will eventually crash. Even the simplest of businesses are not getting credit.

They want the public to bail them out for being fraudulent.

[northstar11]

obama has two festering wounds

the financial sector--- where the failed banking model has been propped up when in fact it needs to be torn down and re-built with a system not TOO BIG TO FAIL and not INCOMPETENT

the judicial sector----- there were crimes committed by the previous administration which need to be outed , the prepetrators--enablers need to be prosecuted and convictions need to be registered.the idea that there are two sets of rules depending on the POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES makes a mockery of "we are a land of laws" and we will "bring them to justice"

[lasublime]

Lars in an idjut, Kevin Johnson, bravo for putting him in his place. KJ, let's take it outside, my God, spot the racist.

[EasyZee]

I'm sure nobody could know for sure, but what would have happened if President Obama DID let the banks go under? It is quite possible that things could be much worse. Nobody is talking about the hypothetical worse case scenarios if he let the banks fail. How many businesses would have gone under as a result of that? How would other countries have reacted if the U.S. banks all failed? What situation would consumers and people who use and need banks be in? What would have happened to the dollar? How much better or worse would this recession be had the banks failed? We can only speculate. I know this though, the President is doing the best he could under the circumstances. Imagine if the economy was good when Obama came into office; there would be universal health care, education would be a priority, and we'd already be building bullet trains.

[vippy]

All good and done but the banks apparently still don't get it = they are asking for Geithner to
approve their bonuses. Now that is not good and deceives the purpose.

[thenorthshore]

cutting taxes for "95% of all working families" is mathematically impossible. Obama is referring to the "Making Work Pay" refundable tax credit, which took effect on April 1. According to IRS data, one-third of all income tax filers don't have a federal income tax liability. About 15 percent of all working families don't even have a FICA tax liability, and these numbers are before taking into effect all the new refundable tax credits of the Obama budget. For these "working families," all Obama's budget will do is cut them the equivalent of a welfare check.

[vippy]

The middle class pays most of the taxes. Think about it, the rich only paid 1/5 of the total taxes collected. They re-invest and give to their own charities, whatever it takes and then some park their money in Switzerland, Cayman Islands, Liechtenstein, etc. Why not close those tax havens?

[Johnnyfeelgood]

His unpopular policies will be catching up to him soon :).

[simplify]

keep dreaming

[dwright]

which "1" is that?

[TomInJax]

Which policies are those? Let's have specifics please.

[radiohead01]

softening our stance in the world.... over spending... big government.... and so on...

[CRA1]

Johnny is waiting and hoping that at least one policy fails. And when and if it does, that is the one he and the Republicants will jump on to make their point. They have no new ideas on how to "fix" the problems, but would rather wait, see what does not and then they can say "See We Told you So!"

[theone718]

You lost by 10 million votes.

[Nonpartay]

I don't believe that Lars guy. Bush was NEVER as popular as President Obama let alone more popular. I never could stand him. Even my mother, a staunch Republican, held her head over him for the first few months until 9/11, but even then we could see he wasn't doing the job right. He lost the popular vote, and many who voted for Gore resented the heck out of him right from the start. I've never heard of anyone being as popular as Obama. I don't recall such huge crowds for anyone else either. He's not telling the truth, imho.

[Nonpartay]

Arianna, why do you keep saying the banks aren't lending? I just bought a Pontiac G6 and we had no trouble at all getting a loan. Maybe it's not as bad as you think?

[radiohead01]

you deserved that loan based on your good credit. banks are just more careful.

[DeeBlackthorne]

Way to go, Arianna. VERY well put. The confusion about bank and credit card financier behavior isn't conservative, liberal, or libertarian -- it's just a flat out defiance of what would stand to benefit the taxpayer who now has to tax the slack for the amount that these businesses failed. I got two notices from my credit card companies. Despite responsible credit card use, one credit card patted me on the butt and said, "Sorry, champ, we gotta jack up your rates a bit." I think I jumped from a bit under 10% to about 14.5%. The other card sent a notice today about increasing fees for balance transfers and cash advances.

We were willing to work with the banks. You guys are in trouble; let's get some funds to you. Now they're balking. It's time to take the money back and make them suffer for not playing ball.

[The Rambling Expatriate]

THANK YOU Arianna for mentioning credit card companies and how they are abusing the very customers who bailed them out and perversely taking advantage of hard times.

The Senate is failing the people if they do not start controlling these abusing banks! Germany is doing it, they are putting strict controls on the money they hand over.

[newyorkid]

No comment about vvars and foreign policy?

[bob8jv]

I believe that most people including political professionals are using an erroneous yard stick when grading Obama first 100 days. The grade should be based on what we expect of a president in 100 days of office. I do not believe that he or anyone else could resolve any of our country problems within 100 days. If we only contemplate on our expectation of a president, you would probably rate him with a triple A rating, as high as I would if that rating existed.

[Nonpartay]

Good point. Like he said, the nation is like a huge ship, not a speed boat. He can hardly be expected to turn everything around in 100 days. But what he's done so far I also think has been outstanding.

[Jack Kiesel]

I just love how Lars and the rest of his republican-delusionist party are trying to tie the swine flu to illegal immigration. I mean anyone casually following this growing pandemic knows it has already 'jumped the fence' and is spreading throughout not just this country but the world. Facts just seem to bounce right off these people, unless of course they fit into their narrow scripture defined world view.

[njb444]

Did Lars say that the swine flu infection is not in our country right now? Did I hear him wrong?

[DJ23]

You heard it right. Insane.

To the far righties nothing is ever a problem until it happens to them.

[Nonpartay]

Odd that no one called him on that.