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but obama seems unconcerned. obama's energy and efforts have been focused on slashing america's -- >> out of interest, what would you be doing? would you be sending in american troops in tehran? >> no, look, obama supported the protesters in egypt very happily when they were demanding democracy in egypt. a year earlier there were massive demonstrations in iran calling for an end to the regime of the mullahs. what did obama do? obama said we should not get involved. there's a debate. let them settle it up. i'm simply saying let's support pro-democracy elements in iran just as we supported them in egypt. >> you think barack obama's so disinterested and unworried by fundamentalists that he's the guy that risked his entire presidency on sending helicopters full of navy s.e.a.l.s into pakistan to take out osama bin laden. that's not really the actions of a guy who's not worried, is it? >> no, i think we have to make an important distinction here. he does not support al qaeda or bin laden. sees those guys as internatio
but obama seems unconcerned. obama's energy and efforts have been focused on slashing america's -- >> out of interest, what would you be doing? would you be sending in american troops in tehran? >> no, look, obama supported the protesters in egypt very happily when they were demanding democracy in egypt. a year earlier there were massive demonstrations in iran calling for an end to the regime of the mullahs. what did obama do? obama said we should not get involved. there's a debate....
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obama took them two to one in 2008. this is where the ryan pick could make a bigger difference and people understand the romney ryan ticket is now younger than the obama biden ticket. when paul ryan says this is a defining moment and our generation's time suddenly you could feel if you were 27 years old that gee the republican party is speaking for me and the future and 2008 it was entirely the other way with obama running against mccain. i think among young voters there are more swing voters among young voters. >> in an election decided by 2, 3, 4%. if there are 4 or 5% undecided that decides the election. the obama team has had four years to invest in a get out the vote operation. maybe the ryan pick helps to neutralize that some but i think this eventually comes down to a close race and at a strategic level what the presidents it team has done masterfully is the real question was this going to be a referendum on the last four years of barack obama as president or a choice between two people. they successfully made it
obama took them two to one in 2008. this is where the ryan pick could make a bigger difference and people understand the romney ryan ticket is now younger than the obama biden ticket. when paul ryan says this is a defining moment and our generation's time suddenly you could feel if you were 27 years old that gee the republican party is speaking for me and the future and 2008 it was entirely the other way with obama running against mccain. i think among young voters there are more swing voters...
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president obama's mistake. instead of free birth control pills he should have done free menopause patches. they're very expensive. i'm not on one yet but i know that. the youth poll today that 50% of the youth are like furious with obama. forget the youth. you need senior citizens and the women to come out with senior citizens menopause patches would have been a much better deal for them. >> greg: this is from senator barbara boxer. planned parenthood lunch on tuesday and she says there is a sickness in the republican party. not kidding. maybe they don't like their moms or their first wives. i don't know what it is. if you bring your mom in this, all bets are off. >> andrea: i love my mom. for the record. there is a danger with overreaching. the democrats crossed the line. all the states could be effected if women were idiots and they aren't. i am woman hear me beg for birth control? if they can't afford birth control, what does it say about obama economy. really? war on women, four years ago, think about what
president obama's mistake. instead of free birth control pills he should have done free menopause patches. they're very expensive. i'm not on one yet but i know that. the youth poll today that 50% of the youth are like furious with obama. forget the youth. you need senior citizens and the women to come out with senior citizens menopause patches would have been a much better deal for them. >> greg: this is from senator barbara boxer. planned parenthood lunch on tuesday and she says there...
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klein, author of a book about president obama weighed in. >> there is talk in the obama campaign to start a -- what they call educational community about what mormonism is evangelical -- >> laura: wait a second. i thought democrats were trying to stop voter suppression this election. or is t just a problem when the voters are democrats? no matter the source, any attempt to explicitly or implicitly stocket flames of religious bigotry in this election should be fiercely denounced and that's the memo. now for the top story, president obama is having trouble running on his own record so he has turned to former president bill clinton to pitch the voters and remind them what life was like in the 90's. >> this is a clear choice. the republic plan is to cut more taxes on upper income people and go back to deregulation that is what got us in ground up. innovation, education and job training. it only works if there is a strong middle class. that's what happened when i was president. we need to keep going with his plan. >> laura: so is making clinton the focal point of the campaign a winning strateg
klein, author of a book about president obama weighed in. >> there is talk in the obama campaign to start a -- what they call educational community about what mormonism is evangelical -- >> laura: wait a second. i thought democrats were trying to stop voter suppression this election. or is t just a problem when the voters are democrats? no matter the source, any attempt to explicitly or implicitly stocket flames of religious bigotry in this election should be fiercely denounced and...
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>> i, barack hussein obama, do solemnly swear. >> that was barack obama's inauguration less than four years ago now and it seemed for a shining moment like america had opened a new chapter in its difficult and frequently shameful history with race. but it wasn't true. even as obama took that oath, researchers were going back through the 2008 election, running through the numbers, running through the polls and finding that far from being a post-racial election, it was an usually racial election. seth stevens davidowitz a researcher at harvard tested this in a very interesting way. first he ranked areas of the country based on how often they entered racist search terms into google. then compared obama's share of the vote in those areas with john kerry's share of the vote from the '04 election. just an election cycle ago. the result? he found that obama had lost 3% to 5% of the popular vote compared to what you would have expected from kerry's results. or, as he put it, obama's race, quote, gave his opponent the equivalent of a home-state advantage countrywide. the racialization of polit
>> i, barack hussein obama, do solemnly swear. >> that was barack obama's inauguration less than four years ago now and it seemed for a shining moment like america had opened a new chapter in its difficult and frequently shameful history with race. but it wasn't true. even as obama took that oath, researchers were going back through the 2008 election, running through the numbers, running through the polls and finding that far from being a post-racial election, it was an usually...
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obama, biden 2012. you get free stuff, you vote for the democrats 'cause they're always going to outdo the democrats. >> i represent young people. i know young people are look for college tuition deals and they want to be able to stay on their parents' health care. >> we do want young people to be able to -- >> laura: frisbees to everyone. you think that birth control pill thing is a real winner for young people and that's going to really -- >> i really do. i think young people are very much looking for birth control. they want. >> laura: they are? how many of these people want the free birth control, go to starbucks on a regular basis? you add the $4 latees up, that pretty much eclipses the 8 bucks for the birth control fills. they got their cell phone contracts, but i can't pay for my birth control pills. it seems silly. >> by preventing unwanted pregnancies. >> laura: i have three of them. dollars and cents, it's not about life. great to see you. thanks for being with us. plenty more ahead. gas price
obama, biden 2012. you get free stuff, you vote for the democrats 'cause they're always going to outdo the democrats. >> i represent young people. i know young people are look for college tuition deals and they want to be able to stay on their parents' health care. >> we do want young people to be able to -- >> laura: frisbees to everyone. you think that birth control pill thing is a real winner for young people and that's going to really -- >> i really do. i think young...
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they think obama is only talking in america. whereas i think obama is applying a global standard. let's remember that even middle class americans. even poor americans are rich by world standards. and that's why i think obama isn't particularly concerned if money is redistributed away from them and toward people in rio de janeiro and mumbai. >> we appreciate it and up next, two democrats will respond and weigh in on the biden issue. and then some key swing states say they are no better off than they were four years ago. is that giving mitt romney the boost he needs? he wool break down some important new polling. those reports after these messages. ♪ [ male announcer ] aggressive styling. a more fuel-efficient turbocharged engine. and a completely redesigned interior. the 2012 c-class with over 2,000 refinements. it's amazing...inside and out. ♪ join mercedes-benz usa on facebook for the best summer sweepstakes. >> laura: the president's broken promises and the biden factor. joining me now from nashville, tennessee. john raleigh a democratic strategist julie also a democrat stra
they think obama is only talking in america. whereas i think obama is applying a global standard. let's remember that even middle class americans. even poor americans are rich by world standards. and that's why i think obama isn't particularly concerned if money is redistributed away from them and toward people in rio de janeiro and mumbai. >> we appreciate it and up next, two democrats will respond and weigh in on the biden issue. and then some key swing states say they are no better off...
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blue, obama. then pinkish is lean romney. light blue is lean obama. then yellow are the tossup states within the margin of error. this, of course, is all based on polls over the last 30 days. okay, karl. start from the left time we were together. what has changed? >> two changes in status. the most important of which is wisconsin moves from lean obama to what joe and i suggested it would be after ryan's appointment. the vice president running mate. that is tossup. so ten electoral college votes out of the obama column to tossup. five electoral in mexico from lean obama to obama. >> bret: american samoa is testing by the way, behind us just so you know. >> no electoral votes. >> bret: joe, most important of the changes? >> wisconsin moving to tossup, karl and i agree that would likely happen. it did. that is important. but the most important may be the polls that are coming out of ohio that show that it was a tossup but it is getting tighter, which is significant. obama had been widening up things there. and romney really needs ohio. now it looks like
blue, obama. then pinkish is lean romney. light blue is lean obama. then yellow are the tossup states within the margin of error. this, of course, is all based on polls over the last 30 days. okay, karl. start from the left time we were together. what has changed? >> two changes in status. the most important of which is wisconsin moves from lean obama to what joe and i suggested it would be after ryan's appointment. the vice president running mate. that is tossup. so ten electoral college...
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iowa went for obama by 146,000 votes in colorado went for obama by 150,000 votes. i could total facelle up and they total up to 2 million votes. for mitt romney to win the presidency he has to change about 1 million mines. he has to take 2 million of those voters and change 1 million of their mines. it's actually fairly easy to do. it's a very small number. do you realize in the campaigns we spend approximately $2 billion on each side, more than $2000 per fod will be spent on influencing those 1 million votes. into those campaigns and in three other states matter little bit. michigan, nevada and new mexico. if mishkin comes home for its home state son romney, the election is over. nevada and new mexico are very difficult to imagine going for romney at this point. they might do a landslide and i think they will but that is not where we bet the farm. here is how you get to the romney 270. he is going to win florida and i know you follow the polls some of you do -- is -- it shows neck-and-neck romney had a couple of points and a bad sophisticated polling romney signif
iowa went for obama by 146,000 votes in colorado went for obama by 150,000 votes. i could total facelle up and they total up to 2 million votes. for mitt romney to win the presidency he has to change about 1 million mines. he has to take 2 million of those voters and change 1 million of their mines. it's actually fairly easy to do. it's a very small number. do you realize in the campaigns we spend approximately $2 billion on each side, more than $2000 per fod will be spent on influencing those...
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the opponents of obama care during the obama care debate went on and on about how if this happens and that happens, you're going to have the equivalent of death panels. well, if we don't go through with obama care, there will be death without panels. >> well, jonathan, this has got to renew the discussion about repealing obama care, and you made a very direct point on all of this, but where does this go from here in the campaign? what do you think -- i mean, why aren't the obama people just embracing this super pac, because it tells the very truth about what happens to people when they lose their jobs in this country. >> they don't need to embrace this ad and get into a big fight about whether they were calling mitt romney a murderer or whatever. they need to move on to a debate about the main issue, which is obama care. and they can bring death into the conversation and say, no, we're not calling mitt romney a murderer, what we are saying is that if he's elected president, a lot of people will die. those are two slightly different but related issues. and to get off of bain, get off o
the opponents of obama care during the obama care debate went on and on about how if this happens and that happens, you're going to have the equivalent of death panels. well, if we don't go through with obama care, there will be death without panels. >> well, jonathan, this has got to renew the discussion about repealing obama care, and you made a very direct point on all of this, but where does this go from here in the campaign? what do you think -- i mean, why aren't the obama people...
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let me also point out, it is obama who took $716 billion out of medicare to pay for obama care. it is obama who created a 15-person bureaucratic board to end medicare as we've known it and put bureaucrats between doctors and their patients. i think if we want to have a debate on medicare, republicans and conservatives ought to lean forward and say let's get it the on, this is going to be a great debate because the fact is, it's obama who's been taking the money away from our senior citizens and it's ryan and romney who protect senior citizens and offer reform only for people under 55. >> but is it one of the big problems with the ryan plan in terms of perception, the fact that he's looking after the very wealthy in america. indisputably. someone like mitt romney would pay hardly any tax under this plan at all. and there is a genuine concern about the lower end of american society. the reason i say that is you're a catholic. paul ryan iscatholic. the u.s. conference of catholics said in may 2012 they felt the fiscal responsibility efforts must protect and not undermine the needs
let me also point out, it is obama who took $716 billion out of medicare to pay for obama care. it is obama who created a 15-person bureaucratic board to end medicare as we've known it and put bureaucrats between doctors and their patients. i think if we want to have a debate on medicare, republicans and conservatives ought to lean forward and say let's get it the on, this is going to be a great debate because the fact is, it's obama who's been taking the money away from our senior citizens and...
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should the obama campaign be worried? it seems despite all those republican dollars spent, romney isn't inching up in the polls. let's bring in our strategists who are ad makers. the ad men i must call them. democrat steve mcmahon and republican todd harris. you are both gentlemen. this campaign right now, with your dirt money you're not getting pay dirt on the romney side. what are you doing wrong? >> the fact is you can reach a point of diminishing returns with advertising budgets. and what you have on the romney side over the last few months of about 150 million in pro-romney, anti-obama spending. about 130 million on the democratic side. which for the average poor bastard that has to sit and watch -- >> is that how you can talk with people? in public you're gross. >> that's right. for the average person who has to watch these, it's the equivalent of being overtaken by a tidal wave or an avalanche. they are both getting bombarded -- >> how come -- we went out in iowa. i compared the bombing in world war ii. it worked.
should the obama campaign be worried? it seems despite all those republican dollars spent, romney isn't inching up in the polls. let's bring in our strategists who are ad makers. the ad men i must call them. democrat steve mcmahon and republican todd harris. you are both gentlemen. this campaign right now, with your dirt money you're not getting pay dirt on the romney side. what are you doing wrong? >> the fact is you can reach a point of diminishing returns with advertising budgets. and...
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gwen: the obama campaign response? >> the woves says the obama -- "washington post" says the obama is not removing the bill's work requirements at all. in fact, o buster: is getting stats to -- states to move 20% more people from welfare to work. and the president's response to the romney ad? it's not true. gwen: neither campaign is being completely truthful but they're rolling in the mud for a reason. first, on the welfare debate, what is real, what is false and why are we arguing about it? >> some people are surprised we're even discussing welfare at all. it's not a big issue in the campaign. gwen: it's a hot button. >> yes, what is the central you? economy. the people have jobs on their minds and has someone in their family who does not have a job. it's not accurate. all the independent fact checkers have said it's not accurate. what the roll any campaign is trying to do with this is reach out to those blue collar working class voters who may not be quite sure about governor romney. they've heard all summer long tha
gwen: the obama campaign response? >> the woves says the obama -- "washington post" says the obama is not removing the bill's work requirements at all. in fact, o buster: is getting stats to -- states to move 20% more people from welfare to work. and the president's response to the romney ad? it's not true. gwen: neither campaign is being completely truthful but they're rolling in the mud for a reason. first, on the welfare debate, what is real, what is false and why are we...
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barack obama slashed it. and so if the facts come out which is what our responsibility is, people in florida and ohio will realize which many already do, that this president is saying one thing and doing another. >> part of the message on the republican ticket is that people are going to have to make sacrifices. and that's like everyone is heach for the other guy to make a sacrifice and not you. how do you sell to the american people future generations makes a difference. and so this generation is going to have to meet the problems now? >> for one thing you have to have people clear with the american people to what we do. >> the president promised to cut the debt and deficit and he promised to lower unemployment and what's happened? we have the most miserable record under the president as many other presidents before him. he would rather demagogue and tear down and offer no solutions of his own. the american people will see the realty of what is happening here and they will go to the future of the success. >>
barack obama slashed it. and so if the facts come out which is what our responsibility is, people in florida and ohio will realize which many already do, that this president is saying one thing and doing another. >> part of the message on the republican ticket is that people are going to have to make sacrifices. and that's like everyone is heach for the other guy to make a sacrifice and not you. how do you sell to the american people future generations makes a difference. and so this...
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obama that i used to know ♪ >> dana: a parody about obama. go to youtube to check it out. >> bob: my one more thing, look, i'm off tomorrow. that makes me happy and conservatives happy. i need a break because lately on the show, probably doesn't surprise you, but my mouth is moving too much. sometimes dumb things, surprising for a mensa guy, comes out of it. last night i was checking twitter and i saw some people out there were offended by something i said. i'm not going to say it again. but i want to say those who were offended i'm very sorry. that is the last you'll hear that. i'll be quiet now. been a pleasure. see you friday. >> dana: anyone have any last words? redeem yourself at all? >> greg: n
obama that i used to know ♪ >> dana: a parody about obama. go to youtube to check it out. >> bob: my one more thing, look, i'm off tomorrow. that makes me happy and conservatives happy. i need a break because lately on the show, probably doesn't surprise you, but my mouth is moving too much. sometimes dumb things, surprising for a mensa guy, comes out of it. last night i was checking twitter and i saw some people out there were offended by something i said. i'm not going to say it...
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>> let's start with the obama budget this year obama's asking for one of the largest educating budgets in history, 70 billion dollars which is a 2.5% increase over last year. this is already over in 2009, the educating department got a one time bonus of 100 billion dollars out of the stimulus. all together, in his four years in office, if all this comes true, obama will have spent as much in one term as the bush administration spent in two terms and bush was hardly ing -- hardly shirking educating spending. the issue is they are not helping. i don't know how many more years we have to go on throwing more and more money at this issue isn't improving student performance. those things have been flat many we need to get more innovative that's what the romney campaign needs to focus on. >> class size has been a dispute. rick hess quoted arnie duncan president obama's education secretary saying class size has been a sacred cow and we need to take it off, give me and my wife a choice of putting our kids with a great teacher of 28 or mediocre teacher of 23, i know what i would choose every tim
>> let's start with the obama budget this year obama's asking for one of the largest educating budgets in history, 70 billion dollars which is a 2.5% increase over last year. this is already over in 2009, the educating department got a one time bonus of 100 billion dollars out of the stimulus. all together, in his four years in office, if all this comes true, obama will have spent as much in one term as the bush administration spent in two terms and bush was hardly ing -- hardly shirking...
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again, advantage bobb obama. they still blame george bush for the economy. >> chris: 30 seconds left. governor, a pretty smart politician your youself. if you were advising mitt romney about his big speech thursday night. biggest moment of the campaign for him. what does he need to accomplish? >> be positive and lay out the vision and tell us what is different about america when he is president and that is the winning point. >> chris: and what about the idea of humanizing him and getting people to see him in a different light. >> people care if he can get the job done. you don't care about his bedside manner, you care about his surgical skills. that will get the job done for mitt romney. >> chris: check out panel plus where the panel picks up on our website. we will post the video before noon eastern time. follow us on twitter @ fox news sunday. wallabwe'll be right back withe final thoughts. hello? the words are going this way-there's no way. oh, the lights came on. isn't technology supposed to make life easier?
again, advantage bobb obama. they still blame george bush for the economy. >> chris: 30 seconds left. governor, a pretty smart politician your youself. if you were advising mitt romney about his big speech thursday night. biggest moment of the campaign for him. what does he need to accomplish? >> be positive and lay out the vision and tell us what is different about america when he is president and that is the winning point. >> chris: and what about the idea of humanizing him...
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obama hasn't created one. he's lost hundreds of thousands. >> he doesn't have the business experience. mitt romney knows how to work across the aisle and get stuff done. he took a deficit and made it into a surplus, he cut taxes, brought jobs to a state. mitt romney has a great message. the president will have to attack. >> sean: i went back, this new film put out by bossy and bannon, it was shocking to me, because it showed all the video of 2008. it showed invesco field, people crying, it was uplifting. they had a tailwind you couldn't stop. he's so different. is he different than the person you knew in the u.s. senate right now in this campaign at this moment? >> i didn't serve with him. i was in the bush cabinet. >> sean: but you knew him. >> yeah, a little bit. not well. look, i think he's running a very different campaign this time. >> sean: divisive, negative, smears? >> divisive, negative. >> sean: does that make you angry? >> yes, i did. i did an event, and i looked for the greek columns, which were no
obama hasn't created one. he's lost hundreds of thousands. >> he doesn't have the business experience. mitt romney knows how to work across the aisle and get stuff done. he took a deficit and made it into a surplus, he cut taxes, brought jobs to a state. mitt romney has a great message. the president will have to attack. >> sean: i went back, this new film put out by bossy and bannon, it was shocking to me, because it showed all the video of 2008. it showed invesco field, people...
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barack obama slashed it. and so if the facts come out which is what our responsibility is, people in florida and ohio will realize which many already do, that this president is saying one thing and doing another. >> part of the message on the republican ticket is that people are going to have to make sacrifices. and that's like everyone is heach for the other guy to make a sacrifice and not you. how do you sell to the american people future generations makes a difference. and so this generation is going to have to meet the problems now? >> for one thing you have to have people clear with the american people to what we do. >> the president promised to cut the debt and deficit and he promised to lower unemployment and what's happened? we have the most miserable record under the president as many other presidents before him. he would rather demagogue and tear down and offer no solutions of hise american peope the realty of what is happening here and they will go to the future of the success. >> what do you know
barack obama slashed it. and so if the facts come out which is what our responsibility is, people in florida and ohio will realize which many already do, that this president is saying one thing and doing another. >> part of the message on the republican ticket is that people are going to have to make sacrifices. and that's like everyone is heach for the other guy to make a sacrifice and not you. how do you sell to the american people future generations makes a difference. and so this...
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the obama ad we're focusing on tonight by a pro obama super pac. is this sort of argument just par for the course? >> well, first of all, i think it's amazing that he can remember a time when campaigns actually pulled ads deemed to be wrong. first, i think there's a lot more watchdogs out there in this campaign. >> so we know about it more? we pay more attention? >> yes, we pay more attention to it. and, you know, the rise obviously of television advertising has been out there for a while. but now it's almost a campaign unto itself. we used to talk about the money and we certainly talk about the content but there's so many people watching these ads now. i'm not sure there's more. but there are more ads. so numerically perhaps there are more. i tell you, they are earlier. a lot earlier they went negative and a lot earlier they went not just stretching the truth, just plain-out lying about stuff. >> john, because i guess the power of the super pacs and the money involved, they're able to kind of take it to a whole new level. >> they're taking it to a
the obama ad we're focusing on tonight by a pro obama super pac. is this sort of argument just par for the course? >> well, first of all, i think it's amazing that he can remember a time when campaigns actually pulled ads deemed to be wrong. first, i think there's a lot more watchdogs out there in this campaign. >> so we know about it more? we pay more attention? >> yes, we pay more attention to it. and, you know, the rise obviously of television advertising has been out there...
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medicare as a piggy bank to fund obama care. that metaphor makes everybody understands it really well it takes republic vulnerability and makes it into a tremendous strength. and it takes the aspect of obama care that is most offensive, that it's going to lead to rationing of healthcare totaled derly and it puts it front and center. so, i think the coverage of the last two to three weeks. and the things you have to cover, have been very pro-romney. i sense an momentum for romney and i would willingly. >> laura: last few hours have been dominated by this akin story. we have the cbo report that came out today that says we could have 9.1% unemployment next year and further degrading of our g.d.p. if this fiscal cliff is allowed to happen. i mean that is a startling warning from the cbo. and i just think the longer we are talking about akin, the less people will become focused on that understand and stand the severity. madeleine albright was talking about who should be blamed for what is going wrong in the country. let's listen. >>
medicare as a piggy bank to fund obama care. that metaphor makes everybody understands it really well it takes republic vulnerability and makes it into a tremendous strength. and it takes the aspect of obama care that is most offensive, that it's going to lead to rationing of healthcare totaled derly and it puts it front and center. so, i think the coverage of the last two to three weeks. and the things you have to cover, have been very pro-romney. i sense an momentum for romney and i would...
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author of 52 reasons to vote for obama, and the author of 52 reasons not to vote for obama. why should we vote for obama? >> there is a number of reasons. top five. number 1, he has consistently delivered for the middle class. 95 poors-- >>> come on. >> $1 trillion in tax, george bush cut less than half of that. 160 million working families got a tax cut-- >>> you are making this up. fewer americans working than when he took off. >> thank you for giving me the time. 4 1/2 million-- >>> stop! a net loss! [overlapping dialogue] fewer americans working. >> george w. bush lost 4.4 million jobs in his last year alone. >> sean: he's out of office. get over it. >> we are continuing to dig out of the hole. >> sean: he has fewer americans working. top five reasons to not hold him. >> he's a hypocrite. he said he was going to do a., he did b. he railed against increasing the debt ceiling and said it was a failure of leadership with bush. how many times has he done it-- >>> cut the deficit in half. >> hillary's health care and mine, we have a mandate. he railed on bush for picking up $
author of 52 reasons to vote for obama, and the author of 52 reasons not to vote for obama. why should we vote for obama? >> there is a number of reasons. top five. number 1, he has consistently delivered for the middle class. 95 poors-- >>> come on. >> $1 trillion in tax, george bush cut less than half of that. 160 million working families got a tax cut-- >>> you are making this up. fewer americans working than when he took off. >> thank you for giving me...
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obama talks about fighting for the middle class. but he is trying to create a welfare class and pay check fairness just to start talking about in the second term blue print if obama gepts his second turn. living wage fairness. the united states government would come in and raise the minimum wage and this is from the marxist ideology so the worker can pay for food and house health care. this sounds really good if i am a private worker wow. the government would raise my pay check. it was tried for in the 1990s and 200 pushed by acorn. voters fraud acorn with which obama had connections and it didn't work. it caused local economies in 80 in the country to crash and burn and created this anti-business climate and stome -- created -- what obama wants to do with our economy and that is massive, massive government centralization . >> aaron these are explosive charges. you talk about blue print that obama implemented and what is the source and what is it if i am a skeptic and saying you are making allegations and that is pretty big stuff wh
obama talks about fighting for the middle class. but he is trying to create a welfare class and pay check fairness just to start talking about in the second term blue print if obama gepts his second turn. living wage fairness. the united states government would come in and raise the minimum wage and this is from the marxist ideology so the worker can pay for food and house health care. this sounds really good if i am a private worker wow. the government would raise my pay check. it was tried...
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>> give president obama a break. he is out of touch with the american people because he spends h his time on golf courses with hollywood millionaires and celebrities and. >> sean: george clooney. >> he is out of touch with america and what the american people are concerned about. it is not what they are are concerned about is the economy and being able to get back to work and pro slide fo provide r familys. >> they aren't concerned with something carmelo anthony did when was 20 years old. >> we don't have audio of it, the press wasn't allowed in this. he said, first of all, it is very rare that i come to an event when i'm like the fifth or sixth most interesting person. usually the folks want to take a picture or sit next to me or talk to me and then he said about the election we are in the fourth quarter. we are up by a few points but the other side they are on strong and play a dirty. i believe they have one last run in them and i would say there is about 7 minutes to go in the game. a little delusional, you know,
>> give president obama a break. he is out of touch with the american people because he spends h his time on golf courses with hollywood millionaires and celebrities and. >> sean: george clooney. >> he is out of touch with america and what the american people are concerned about. it is not what they are are concerned about is the economy and being able to get back to work and pro slide fo provide r familys. >> they aren't concerned with something carmelo anthony did when...
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nick is an independent. >> we were looking for hope from obama, but there is no hope from obama. two things in florida, i was really fired up for romney. one is about guns and two is about education and what he had to say and his background as well as what is jeb bush had to say and we are starting to go in the right direction. i believe those are the two elements for this nation, specifically for the state of florida and who have this -- help this economy and give the kids a better chance. america can still be great. the next generation can still be better. that is what this country is about. i believe romney can be the next reagan. i truly believe that. >> more reaction, including a new jersey resident. what did you hear from governor mitt romney? glaxo fantastic speech -- >> of fantastic speech. everybody knows where he stands on every issue and his vision for america. we can be a great nation. we can hire everyone, and business can do well and prosper. >> dte do what he needed to do? >> i think he delivered an amazing speech. it was exciting to listen to. it was one of the be
nick is an independent. >> we were looking for hope from obama, but there is no hope from obama. two things in florida, i was really fired up for romney. one is about guns and two is about education and what he had to say and his background as well as what is jeb bush had to say and we are starting to go in the right direction. i believe those are the two elements for this nation, specifically for the state of florida and who have this -- help this economy and give the kids a better...
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>> i, barack hussein obama, do solemnly swear. >> that was barack obama's inauguration less than four years ago now and it seemed for a shining moment like america had opened a new chapter in its difficult and frequently shameful history with race. but it wasn't true. even as obama took that oath, researchers were going back through the 2008 election, running through the numbers, running through the polls and finding that far from being a post-racial election, it was an usually racial election. this was tested in an interesting way. first he ranked areas of the country based on how often they entered racist search terms into google. then compared obama's share of the vote in those areas with john kerry's share of the vote from the '04 election. just an election cycle ago. is wult the result? he found that obama had lost 3% to 5% of the popular vote compared to what you would have expected from kerry's results or as he put it, obama's race, quote, gave his opponent the equivalent of a home-state advantage countrywide. the racialization of politics continued after the election too. poli
>> i, barack hussein obama, do solemnly swear. >> that was barack obama's inauguration less than four years ago now and it seemed for a shining moment like america had opened a new chapter in its difficult and frequently shameful history with race. but it wasn't true. even as obama took that oath, researchers were going back through the 2008 election, running through the numbers, running through the polls and finding that far from being a post-racial election, it was an usually...
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obama had as the chairman. had deflect all the attacks by ryan into the hands of softer democrats. >> we will show everybody that clip in totality in body language coming up. all right, charles, thanks very much. as always, we appreciate it next on the run down, newt gingrich scolding cnn in a very entertaining way. crowley and colmes with analysis of that body language on paul ryan scolding president obama and visa you may remember newt gingrich scolded cnn. he scorched moderator king bringing up allegations about the speaker's former wife. last night gingrich went back to the future. >> if you are very wealthy you are going to could better paul ryan than barack obama who believe fundamentally the rich should pay more tax. >> i don't sound disrespectful if you guys all get off in a little club and learn a brand new mantra. if you want to have jobs, you have to encourage job creators. if you discourage job creators. if you engage in class warfare, if you do what barack obama has been doing. you have what we cur
obama had as the chairman. had deflect all the attacks by ryan into the hands of softer democrats. >> we will show everybody that clip in totality in body language coming up. all right, charles, thanks very much. as always, we appreciate it next on the run down, newt gingrich scolding cnn in a very entertaining way. crowley and colmes with analysis of that body language on paul ryan scolding president obama and visa you may remember newt gingrich scolded cnn. he scorched moderator king...
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obama's campaign, have suggested mr. romney might be a felon. mr. obama saying that's not accurate. he said, nobody accused mr. romney of being a felon. keeping them honest, though, it looks like president obama may have forgotten what happened just last month. comments made by stephanie cutter, his deputy campaign manager in a conference call with reporters. >> either mitt romney through his own words and his own signature was misrepresenting his position at bain to the sec, which is a felony, or he was misrepresenting his position at bain to the american people to avoid responsibility for some of the consequences of his investments. >> miss cutter, that was just a few weeks ago, was discussing questions about how mitt romney handed over power at the investment firm bain capital. that's after several news outlets uncovered securities and exchange commission documents showing romney was still on the corporate book at bain until 2002. the romney camp insists the governor left the company in 1999 to run the winter olympics in salt lake city. also asked about a ad being run by a super
obama's campaign, have suggested mr. romney might be a felon. mr. obama saying that's not accurate. he said, nobody accused mr. romney of being a felon. keeping them honest, though, it looks like president obama may have forgotten what happened just last month. comments made by stephanie cutter, his deputy campaign manager in a conference call with reporters. >> either mitt romney through his own words and his own signature was misrepresenting his position at bain to the sec, which is a...
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the obama campaign is counter programming. what is the obama campaign? be scared of mitt romney. he has been president for four years. can you not change that one or two speech speeches and bill clinton reinterpreting. people can see the degree to which president obama has not succeeded measured by husband own criteria. i think mitt romney has a bigger challenge and both --. >>chris: romney has a bigger challenge? >> sure, he has to make the case to the american public. obama teach will be out there this week and next making the case against mitt romney. there is a temptation in the romney catch, they are hitting us, we have to hit them back. they need to be disciplined and say, the american public does not know romney as well as president obama. what is the positive agenda going forward? if this week is about the next four years not the last four years but the temptation is, look what they did two years ago, that is terrible. make it about the future and lay out the positive message for the romney administration. >>chris: bill as we go into the two week stretch of the first repu
the obama campaign is counter programming. what is the obama campaign? be scared of mitt romney. he has been president for four years. can you not change that one or two speech speeches and bill clinton reinterpreting. people can see the degree to which president obama has not succeeded measured by husband own criteria. i think mitt romney has a bigger challenge and both --. >>chris: romney has a bigger challenge? >> sure, he has to make the case to the american public. obama teach...
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the consensus was o'reilly or obama. >> 70/30 obama. obama emotional connection. ethnic background. reaches out to poor people. amnesty play. romney's father was born in mexico. i have had a lot of latin immigrants tell me that. that's making impression. >> bill: when you go out and talk to people who aren't born in the united states. a lot of people know more than the regular folks who were born here. >> i know. >> bill: okay. they know more about what's going on. they are kind of a heightened interest in the news of the day. did you find that? >> the taxicab drivers listen to a lot of radio. so they are always tuned in. some of the interviews i did. you know, spring break i would say what do you think about mitt romney and they would say who? no one said that this time. so these guys are pretty. >> bill: one guy didn't know who barack obama was. the abbot cass stow guy. that was a put on. >> language barrier. the guy was from colombia. >> what language doesn't understand barack obama? >> i don't know. >> bill: what language doesn't understand that. >> maybe it was the way i was pr
the consensus was o'reilly or obama. >> 70/30 obama. obama emotional connection. ethnic background. reaches out to poor people. amnesty play. romney's father was born in mexico. i have had a lot of latin immigrants tell me that. that's making impression. >> bill: when you go out and talk to people who aren't born in the united states. a lot of people know more than the regular folks who were born here. >> i know. >> bill: okay. they know more about what's going on. they...
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obama care. i'm implementing obama care, because it was the right thing to do. >> if that's what mr. romney wants to get rid of, despite the fact that he did the same thing in massachusetts and it worked pretty well, then that's a different -- that's a choice in this election. >> sam, is it a day, is it a matter of minutes? is it a matter of hours before this becomes a new web ad from the obama campaign? >> i mean, it looks like this thing could take off at any moment. i mean, the visual of one campaign, the romney campaign, talking positively about romney care and getting just absolutely hammered by their base, and the other campaign, the obama campaign, talking positively about obama care, ostensibly the same bill, and getting absolutely huge cheers from his base, is striking. and it goes to show you that republicans never actually expected much out of mitt romney. the fact that ann coulter expected him to just summarily ignore his signature legislative accomplishment as governor of massachuset
obama care. i'm implementing obama care, because it was the right thing to do. >> if that's what mr. romney wants to get rid of, despite the fact that he did the same thing in massachusetts and it worked pretty well, then that's a different -- that's a choice in this election. >> sam, is it a day, is it a matter of minutes? is it a matter of hours before this becomes a new web ad from the obama campaign? >> i mean, it looks like this thing could take off at any moment. i mean,...
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people you -- obama people used. they did not get welfare. -- gut welfare. new ways. the five-year probation is still there. you still have parameters of the law. they happen to the waivers and inflicted by republican governors. so, it is false. >> as we saw, they are all in love with bill clinton when it comes to welfare reform could >> -- welfare reform. >> resurrection. --e's a guy that is impeach, impeach, has forced from office in disgrace, has led to his wife, his cabinet, the congress, several investigators, the american people, and this year he will give the speech of the democratic convention nominating obama, but on the other hand, dick cheney and george w. bush will not be at the gop convention because they are not that popular. this is the state of american politics today. >> charles, do you have thoughts on this high discourse? >> i two comments. the one, about rfk, what you in their care i thought that would be good. you guys are wrong on the welfare issue. when the law was written in 1996, and we autho
people you -- obama people used. they did not get welfare. -- gut welfare. new ways. the five-year probation is still there. you still have parameters of the law. they happen to the waivers and inflicted by republican governors. so, it is false. >> as we saw, they are all in love with bill clinton when it comes to welfare reform could >> -- welfare reform. >> resurrection. --e's a guy that is impeach, impeach, has forced from office in disgrace, has led to his wife, his...
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>> only if the obama administration and the obama campaign operation falls asleep on the job. if they fall asleep on the job, and they don't maximize their constituency in the same enthusiastic way then the romney/ryan ticket will be competitive. if the kind of effort that was made in 2008 on behalf of obama where independents went for obama in large numbers where young people between 18 and 35 went for obama in large numbers, where african-americans turned out to vote as if they were in someplace like south africa where people have not been allowed to vote for years and years and years, all of that was a level of enthusiasm and pride that drove the numbers dramatically in certain states. that's got to be done again. >> you -- you in the past have criticized the obama team for not gingg up that enthusiasm. do you think the selection of paul ryan will be enough to elevate enthusiasm on the democratic side? >> i think mr. obama got a taste of what he needs to do over the weekend. literally the selection of paul ryan bushed obama to the sidelines for the last three or four days.
>> only if the obama administration and the obama campaign operation falls asleep on the job. if they fall asleep on the job, and they don't maximize their constituency in the same enthusiastic way then the romney/ryan ticket will be competitive. if the kind of effort that was made in 2008 on behalf of obama where independents went for obama in large numbers where young people between 18 and 35 went for obama in large numbers, where african-americans turned out to vote as if they were in...
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we can survive obama but not the people who vote for obama. talk about personal. >> andrea: talk about personal and not chris christie's underpants for once. next week, tampa, we'll all be there. juan, what can we expect? what does romney have to do? >> juan: he has to get more personal. he has to say to people, a plan, here is why it will work. one thing we saw in the poll today even though americans, there is a big jump, gap in terms of people approving or disapproving obama performance on the economy and right now, the majority disapprove. but then when you ask what about the future it's tied between obama and romney. if romney can say here is my plan what i'll do, he can get a boost. >> andrea: hes a stage with millions of people. this is the time to present himself. what do you think he needs to say to unite the party? >> eric: he is doing it now. picked the right guy for vice president. highlight paul ryan. stay on jobs. forget the other satellite stuff that the left wants to do, stay on job. >> dana: three things to focus on. economy, f
we can survive obama but not the people who vote for obama. talk about personal. >> andrea: talk about personal and not chris christie's underpants for once. next week, tampa, we'll all be there. juan, what can we expect? what does romney have to do? >> juan: he has to get more personal. he has to say to people, a plan, here is why it will work. one thing we saw in the poll today even though americans, there is a big jump, gap in terms of people approving or disapproving obama...
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president obama? you know there's something wrong with the kind of job he's done as president when the best feeling you had was the day you voted for him. >> mitt romney taking a shot at president obama. i want to bring in someone from the other side, debbie wasserman schultz. debbie, welcome. >> yes. >> the most testing and incentive, to put it mildly. let's talk about mitt romney's speech. i thought, to be fair, it's a pretty good, solid speech. what did you think? >> well, i think the fact that the most commentary following mitt romney's speech is about an empty chair says more about mitt romney than it does about barack obama. >> when you saw clint eastwood talking to a chair, were you jumping with delight? >> no, i actually thought it was a little sad. it was bewildering and sad. >> i'm a huge fan of him but i found it increasingly really uncomfortable. >> i thought it was a bizarre, uncomfortable, unfortunate moment and, again, you know, all of the buzz after the mitt romney speech is about the
president obama? you know there's something wrong with the kind of job he's done as president when the best feeling you had was the day you voted for him. >> mitt romney taking a shot at president obama. i want to bring in someone from the other side, debbie wasserman schultz. debbie, welcome. >> yes. >> the most testing and incentive, to put it mildly. let's talk about mitt romney's speech. i thought, to be fair, it's a pretty good, solid speech. what did you think? >>...
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romney is accusing obama of being negative. it's a factual thing that obama is being negative. not a negative attack to say so. >> john: what about this, charles? attack on substantive issue of policy versus politics of personal assassination. >> i think the obama administration decided it can't run on the record. it's not a good one. can't run on the accomplishments if you go down the list. proudest of that obamacare, stimulus. not something you run on. all of them are unpopular. now it's the kill romney campaign, as headline of memo that was leaked in august last year. so summarize the campaign, it's obama campaign saying. mitt romney will lay off your dad, kill your mother with cancer, deny your sister contrcontraceptives, throw yourn out of college and if you're african-american, put y'all in chains. that is not -- i mean they say are we going negative? no, we are talking about issues. you know, he was talking about dodd-frank and regulatory implementation of regulations on wall street in talking about change. this is preposterous. they don't have a record. they know that.
romney is accusing obama of being negative. it's a factual thing that obama is being negative. not a negative attack to say so. >> john: what about this, charles? attack on substantive issue of policy versus politics of personal assassination. >> i think the obama administration decided it can't run on the record. it's not a good one. can't run on the accomplishments if you go down the list. proudest of that obamacare, stimulus. not something you run on. all of them are unpopular....
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boehner and obama, they got together. they were this close to having an agreement inside the republican caucus. this is less well known. inside the republican caucus, ryan was along with eric cantor and other conservative members saying don't do it. we don't like this agreement. let's take this issue to the american people. win the election and institute our budget into 2013. >> so no agreement so that president doesn't get re-elected? >> he's not known as someone forging bipartisan consensus. he's known as someone that is deeply conservative, has very set ideas about these -- about the budget and wants his ideas to prevail. nothing wrong with. that but there's no reason to assume he's -- if he's vice president he's going to be good at building bridges. >> the record shows votes very much along his party lines. >> absolutely. absolutely. >> all right. ryan lizza. don't go anywhere. we'll be back with you. coming up next, the hometown that shaped a world view. jamesville, wisconsin, home of paul ryan. it's a town searching
boehner and obama, they got together. they were this close to having an agreement inside the republican caucus. this is less well known. inside the republican caucus, ryan was along with eric cantor and other conservative members saying don't do it. we don't like this agreement. let's take this issue to the american people. win the election and institute our budget into 2013. >> so no agreement so that president doesn't get re-elected? >> he's not known as someone forging bipartisan...
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obama, good guy, wonderful father. it's been great to have had the first african american president. but just not up to it. and, you know, he's a nice guy. i don't blame him, but i want to try something new. >> rose: right. >> now ann romney had a killer line in her speech last night which she to me completely swallowed. and the line was mitt romney will not fail. to me that whole speech should have been that. had she come out and said, "mom will not fail and i know that because here's what he did in college. i know mitt romney will not fail because here's what he did in his first job. i know mitt romney will not fail because here's how he dealt with this crise." she did not build on it at all. i think the obama people were very relieved. that's the one big vulnerability of the president. >> rose: i totally agree to is that. i think the argument he has to make has to do with i can succeed where someone else has failed in the judgment of eye number of people. >> exactly. >> rose: in the judgment of perhaps a winning maj
obama, good guy, wonderful father. it's been great to have had the first african american president. but just not up to it. and, you know, he's a nice guy. i don't blame him, but i want to try something new. >> rose: right. >> now ann romney had a killer line in her speech last night which she to me completely swallowed. and the line was mitt romney will not fail. to me that whole speech should have been that. had she come out and said, "mom will not fail and i know that...
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obama's record. so i'm sure they're out there praying for rain. ( laughter ) they go even further than that. you take this todd akin guy, harry reid, the democratic senator leaders pac, put more than a million dollars into the republican primary contest to help todd aikin win the republican nomination. now we know why. the fact is, at the end of the day, the american people know this election is going to be a referendum on president obama's record. marco rubio said it-- are you better off than you were four years ago? is america better off than it was four years ago? and barack obama wants the conversation to be about anything else. >> schieffer: congresswoman-- or you like to be congressman, don't you. >> congress-mash awhatever. i'm just focused on getting the job done. >> schieffer: what about this guy akin. mitt romney comes out-- it seems like there was a time in politics when the leaders could get together and tell somebody to take a hike pup can't really do that. >> i have to tell you, in our
obama's record. so i'm sure they're out there praying for rain. ( laughter ) they go even further than that. you take this todd akin guy, harry reid, the democratic senator leaders pac, put more than a million dollars into the republican primary contest to help todd aikin win the republican nomination. now we know why. the fact is, at the end of the day, the american people know this election is going to be a referendum on president obama's record. marco rubio said it-- are you better off than...
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plus he's now ahead of obama in the following states obama carried -- indiana, new hampshire, wisconsin, nevada, north carolina, and colorado. that gives him 228 electoral votes. he needs 270. he then has to carry florida, where he's now only two behind. plus either virginia or ohio. he's two behind in virginia and one behind in ohio. carry two of those three states and he ends up being the president. and then there are six other states where obama is under 50, when incumbents under 50, good chancy loses. iowa, emergenc, new mexico, pena and new jersey and -- interesting of the states that tracked, romney gained in nine of them since july 1st, and slipped in four of them since july 1st. this whole media stuff that's out there about how romney is slipping, obama is surgings, one idiot from "newsweek" said he thought there would be an obama landslide coming up, it's just disinformation. it is not true. if you want the details on this, go to dickmorris.com. i have it all in a column and video there. >> sean: you really think wisconsin? for example, look, i think the events that will -- tha
plus he's now ahead of obama in the following states obama carried -- indiana, new hampshire, wisconsin, nevada, north carolina, and colorado. that gives him 228 electoral votes. he needs 270. he then has to carry florida, where he's now only two behind. plus either virginia or ohio. he's two behind in virginia and one behind in ohio. carry two of those three states and he ends up being the president. and then there are six other states where obama is under 50, when incumbents under 50, good...