>> paul: welcome to the journal editorial report. i'm paul gigot. you'll eyes were on ohio this week as they both hit the buckeye state hard. hoping to put 18 electoral votes in their col >> paul: politics poll real lot of attention to polls because it depends on what they take and the sample. these guys have been in ohio and they should start paying income tax. this thing is as close can be they both wouldn't be here. i expect this to go down to the wire. we are always a swing state. it will be very close. >> paul: so the democrats are saying one of big things that is helping the spent the auto bailout. is that how you lead to to help the president? >> look, we're up 123,000 jobs over the last year and three-quarters. we're actually according to the bureau of labor statistics down 500 jobs, auto jobs in ohio. the situation. chrysler has expanded and ford and gm have shrunk their footprint but we stabilizing. auto industry out here. of the 123,000 jobs, most of them, biggest categories are business services and healthcare. we are having specialty ma

i'm paul gigot. republican presidential nominee mitt romney bringing down the house with that line in tampa thursday night. there's no question it was the most important speech of his career, how did he do and what did it tell about the campaign to come. let's welcome the wall street journal columnist, dan henninger, dorothy rabinowitz, kim strassel. dan one of the main goals of the convention to improve the image of mitt romney with independent voters, undecided voters. did they accomplish that? >> they most personal accomplished that, they have proven, i think, with all of the testimonials from people that mitt romney is a good person, a great guy, and even a caring businessman. now, this is a political event. so, why did they spend so much time doing that? they did that because the obama campaign and democratic surrogates had spent the previous four months. >> paul: and 100 million dollars. >> 100 million dollars worth of tv commercials saying precisely the opposite. the romney campaign has brough

>> paul: welcome to the journal editorial report. i'm paul gigot. you'll eyes were on ohio this week as they both hit the buckeye state hard. hoping to put 18 electoral votes in their column. real clear politics poll average shows his poll leading there. ohio governor john kasich is on the show and welcome. the polls show that mitt romney is trailing. how do you explain that and is that true. >> you know, paul i don't pay a lot of attention to polls because it depends on what they take and the sample. these guys have been in ohio and they should start paying income tax. this thing is as close can be they both wouldn't be here. i expect this to go down to the wire. we are always a swing state. it will be very close. >> paul: so the democrats are saying one of big things that is helping the spent the auto bailout. is that how you lead to to help the president? >> look, we're up 123,000 jobs over the last year and three-quarters. we're actually according to the bureau of labor statistics down 500 jobs, auto jobs in ohio. the situation. chrysler has exp

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. >> paul: welcome to the journal editorial report. i'm paul gigot, that was president barack obama making his case in charlotte, north carolina for a second term in the white house. with another disappointing jobs report released just hours after his speaking, and unemployment above 8% for the 43rd month in a row, did the president get the job done? joining the panel this week, wall street journal columnist den henninger. jason riley, editor james freeman and washington columnist kim strassel. jason, let's start with you. how effective was the president's case for reelection? >> i don't think it was very effective. i thought was a pretty-- a performance last night typical liberal change, shared responsibility, but i think it was more significant for what he didn't talk about, paul. obamacare, not a lot on jobs, not a lot on the stimulus. these are that defined his presidency and not using them to make the case for his reelection. >> paul: he didn't defend some of the core programs in an elaborate way for his first term. what is the ca

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>> what's wrong with that, paul, the students there now are going to suffer in the interim. if you look at this, you basically have-- this is a civil rights issue, under 60% of chicago students are graduating from high school and in the really bad neighborhoods, it's even worse than that. so, those students are being failed right now and that's not something that can necessarily wait. they had a chance here, i think, to fight a little bit harder, but they didn't for, i think, partially political reasons. >> and the political reason was because there's an election coming and a showdown would not be very good politics? >> election coming and this is obama's hometown and the democrats facing off with the unions and isn't a story that anyone really wants to talk about here, so, i think that was a large part of it. >> david, you met with rahm emanuel a week before the strike was settled and you wrote that he had a pretty calm, cool attitude toward this, a guy who is not necessarily known for political cool. he can get pretty combative. you, what's your take on the outcome? >> wel

>> i want answers. >> paul: so, what about. >> not to put too fine a point on it, paul. i thought the ad was ridiculous. the first thing what he said was what we need is a stronger trade policy, that's the issue foremost in the minds of voters trying to decide which one to vote for? secondly, the deficit, a balanced budget something kind of conservative hobby horse, it really is not resonating. and thirdly, why does he think that these sound bites, the trade, the deficit, small business, are going to turn voters in his direction? those are simply kind of platitudes with no substance beneath them. and if he's going to just do that for the next five weeks, i think he's going to be in big trouble. >> paul: james? >> okay. and for this, it was a bit vague, i didn't like the trade stuff. operate other hand you had a message of smaller government and a message of tax and regulatory relief to small businesses is often much bigger deal than taxes. it's unknown, difficult to deal with and time consuming, but to get more are those points compelling for middle class voters, obama h

>> i want answers. >> paul: so, what about. >> not to put too fine a point on it, paul. i thought the ad was ridiculous. the first thing what he said was what we need is a stronger trade policy, that's the issue foremost in the minds of voters trying to decide which one to vote for? secondly, the deficit, a balanced budget something kind of conservative hobby horse, it really is not resonating. and thirdly, why does he think that these sound bites, the trade, the deficit, small business, are going to turn voters in his direction? those are simply kind o platitudes with no substance beneath them. and if he's going to just do that for the next five weeks, i think he's going to be in big trouble. >> paul: james? >> okay. and for this, it was a bit vague, i didn't like the trade stuff. operate other hand you had a message of smaller government and a message of tax and regulatory relief to small businesses is often much bigger deal than taxes. it's unknown, difficult to deal with and time consuming, but to get more are those points compelling for middle class voters, obama ha

that is where the battleground. >> paul: we have to take one more break. more break. when we come back hits an [ female announcer ] need help keeping your digestive balance? try the #1 gastroenterologist recommended probiotic. align. align naturally helps maintain digestive balance. ♪ ooh, baby, can i do for you today? ♪ try align today. >>. >> paul: for hits and misses of the week. >> here a hit to the n.f.l. and referees for striking a reasonable labor deal this week. n.f.l. got a chance to move to 401-k plan and got more flex wnilt hiring. referees got a pay increase. >> paul: they may give the packers compensatory rules. >> i wanted a miss to the todd aikens who missed the deadline to drop out race. he tarnished not only himself but the entire republican party with his bizarre comments on what he called legitimate rape. but the crew is standing by their man. i think they may come to regret that decision but the democrats sure won't. >> this is hit for chick fill lay. an aldeman he intimidated to stop their donations to groups that politicians don't like. the c

i know. >>> in tonight's rewrite, paul ryan continues to rewrite paul ryan. on the many things that paul ryan can no longer say. now that he's mitt romney's running mate. two years ago paul ryan said, correctly, that the cayman islands are quote the place you hide your money. see? paul ryan can be right sometimes. but he can't be right about the cayman islands anymore, thanks to mitt romney. so he just doesn't mention the cayman islands anymore. and a few years ago, paul ryan said this about his favorite philosopher. >> i grew up reading ayn rand and it taught my quite a bet about who i am and what my value systems are and what my believes are. it's inspired my so much that it's required reading in my office for my staff. the reason i got involved in public service if i had to credit one thinker it would be ayn rand. when i had to point out that ayn rand was an atheist, paul ryan was then forced to say this. >> i reject her philosophy. it's an atheist philosophy. >> which was exactly what we were hoping he would say. in that same speech where paul ryan swore

together we'll go far. >>> in tonight's rewrite, paul ryan continues to rewrite paul ryan. on the many things that paul ryan can no longer say. now that he's mitt romney's running mate. two years ago paul ryan said, correctly, that the cayman islands are quote the place you hide your money. see? paul ryan can be right sometimes. but he can't be right about the cayman islands anymore, thanks to mitt romney. so he just doesn't mention the cayman islands anymore. and a few years ago, paul ryan said this about his favorite philosopher. >> i grew up reading ayn rand and it taught my quite a bet about who i am and what my value systems are and what my believes are. it's inspired my so much that it's required reading in my office for my staff. the reason i got involved in public service if i had to credit one thinker it would be ayn rand. when i had to point out that ayn rand was an atheist, paul ryan was then forced to say this. >> i reject her philosophy. it's an atheist philosophy. >> which was exactly what we were hoping he would say. in that same speech where paul ryan swore

. >> paul: mitt romney's failure to get specific about his economic policies does seem to be taking its toll. a new fox news poll has the two candidates tied at 46% when it comes to which candidates trust more coming to create jobs. it gave romney a 7 point edge. on tax policy president leads romney 48 to 45. and on that month. 44-40%. so, dan, you mentioned the tax reform debate and the president's attacks on romney's tax plan. we've got to add that the obama campaign is releasing this week, let's look at it. >> and won't reveal what's in his taxes and he won't tell you what he'd do to yours. to pay for huge new tax breaks for millionaires like him, romney would have to raise taxes on the middle class, $2,000 for a family with children says a nonpartisan report. you could lose the deduction for your home mortgage, college tuition, health care, how much would you pay? romney just won't say. . >> paul: all right, dan, first of all, let's just say that the use of the wall street journal in that ad was not sanctioned by this newspaper and we don't want to be associated at all with this arg

i'm paul gigot. anti-american protests spread across the arab world this week over a film in defense of islam and the prophet muhammad following the murder thursday of four american diplomates. including united states ambassador chris stevens in benghazi, libya, in what officials believe was a terrorist attack designed to coincide with the anniversary of september 11th. and joining us dan henninger, mary anastasia o'grady and, with the anti-american protests across the arab world this week, tell us about our standing in that part of the world, and the ferment in arabia? >> well, i think, paul, what's happening here is where essentially we came in when the arab spring began in egy egypt, tunisia and spread to other countries and the feeling at that time that came out the united states couldn't really support any of these movements in the arab spring because quote unquote, we don't know who these people are, which is to say that the united states, and including the state department, just was not that e

look, mitt romney did not pick paul ryan because of paul ryan's medicare or budget programs. he picked paul ryan because of his youthfulness, because of the cultural appeal, because of what paul ryan himself calls the deer hunter catholic that he is, okay? that might sell in pennsylvania, but the other stuff won't. and if we're going to be cutting medicare at some point, which i think most voters understand, i think right now looking at these alternatives, they would rather have a democrat they know than a republican from a party that never supported the program to begin with. >> let me go to joy on that. joy-ann, it seems to me that people who once you get into your late 60s, early 70s, into your 80s, you have one primary care, and that's what you're always talking about with your friends, how is your health? how is it going? you're social life in many ways is going to see the doctor. you have to survive, see your kids and grandkids. you don't walk away and say i'd like to cut it but i don't like his health care program. it's pretty hard to separate. >> the most remarkable t

the answer is more paul ryan. i would like to see more of paul ryan not just on the stump at these rallies but doing a lot more media. i also think it would probably work in mitt romney's favor to have paul ryan play a more traditional vp role, which is it should be paul ryan out there on the sunday shows and in the press. >> instead of buchanan, for example? >> i don't mind surrogates. i don't think mitt romney needs to be the one calling out president obama is egypt an ally or not or is israel an ally or not? this should be paul ryan's job. paul ryan should be the one sort of calling out obama, and mitt romney should be running for president. i don't think it's that ryan isn't capable. he is. he's very good at this. so there's a lot of sort of second-guessing as to what the strategy within the campaign is. i talked to a bunch of strategists off the record who had their own takes what's going on here. frankly, as a voter, i don't care. i want to see more of paul ryan. >> there's a reason. the reason actually stra

he was rand paul's campaign manager during his 2010 senate run and then he was ron paul's campaign manager during his 2012 presidential run. so this is a guy who has been as anti-establishment, and as pro-paul as any republican in the country. in fact, for rand paul, the son, to get to the senate, he first had to win a primary against mitch mcconnell's hand-picked candidate in kentucky. it was the true believer conservative outsiders against that entrenched washington establishment. now one of the truest of the true believers is moving into a key position on mcconnell's campaign. but in some ways the move shouldn't be too much of a surprise. to a degree people i think really don't appreciate, ron paul's dramatically changed the face of the republican party. not on everything, of course. his attitudes on foreign policy and on the drug war haven't gotten him very far. but his positions on the size of government and in particular on monetary policy on the fed have basically won. i mean, the last book ron paul wrote, the thing he really wanted people to know about him before he ran for preside

one thing about paul ryan, he passed a budget twice. he did what he had to do. he stepped up to his responsibilities as budget chairman and got a budget passed twice. the president walked away from the debt commission and has never -- >> how about if a ship sank and two people left before it sank and one blamed the other for leaving before it sank? oh, i also left the ship before it sank. just a thought. it's useful information. >> let's talk about the two budgets that ryan passed. they had the very same medicare cuts that paul ryan now criticizes the president for. and while they talk about balancing the budget, which sounds really good and got a lot of applause at the republican convention last night -- hold on one second. they've got a $4.3 billion tax cut that's not paid for. neither is -- >> let's take a look at -- let ryan speak for himself. here he is talking about the failure of obama to support simpson-bowles and his deficit-reduction effort. let's watch. >> he created a new bipartisan debt commission. they came back with an urgent report. he thanked th

i think he means him and paul ryan. if that means by a deregulation, reducing my tax burden or reduce the tax code but do not help with a handout. government does not need help any more. john: many audience members liked the speech and were inspired and last the -- walesa nicole them us. mark? >> wish to take power away from washington d.c. back to the people. i heard the a centralizing decision-making at changing needs to be from the sell as. john: i believe they are small government and guys her fell but you can barely hear it. without specifics should i believe it? >> and last night paul ryan's speech had very good rhetoric but then if you look at the substance of his record for mitt romney, it is not about cutting government regulations but boating for things like the t.a.r.p bill, no child left behind, . john: the patriot act. he has changed and grown. john: i want to believe that. my romney says i can create 12 million jobs. how does he? >> i don't want government creating any more jobs. [applause] there are a lot

they had the very same medicare cuts that paul ryan now criticizes the president for. and while they talk about balancing the budget, which sounds really good and got a lot of applause at the republican convention last night -- hold on one second. they've got a $4.3 billion tax cut that's not paid for. neither is -- >> let's take a look at -- let ryan speak for himself. here he is talking about the failure of president obama to support simpson-bowles and his deficit reduction effort. let's watch. >> he created a new bipartisan debt commission. they came back with an urgent report. he thanked them, sent them on their way, and then did exactly nothing. >> and what did ryan do? >> he passed his own budget. twice. >> simpson-bowles. >> he voted against it because he didn't like the fact there was no entitlement reforms in there. the fact of the matter when it comes to the medicare charge, yes, they have the same numbers, but they were different types of cuts. what obama has done -- he took the 700 -- >> cutting $700 billion. let's go beyond this because it's clear that rya

. >> paul: welcome to the journal editorial report. i'm paul gigot, that was president barack obama making his case in charlotte, north carolina for a second term in the white house. with another disappointing jobs report released just hours after his speaking, and unemployment above 8% for the 43rd month in a row, did the president get the job done? joining the panel this week, wall street journal columnist den henninger. jason riley, editor james freeman and washington columnist kim strassel. jason, let's start with you. how effective was the president's case for reelection? >> i don't think it was very effective. i thought was a pretty-- a performance last night typical liberal change, shared responsibility, but i think it was more significant for what he didn't talk about, paul. obamacare, not a lot on jobs, not a lot on the stimulus. these are that defined his presidency and not using them to make the case for his reelection. >> paul: he didn't defend some of the core programs in an elaborate way for his first term. what is the ca