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President obamas first term. im going to get rid of dodd frank, get rid of obamacare. were not going to do anymore stimulus. whereas, what president obama is running son you get to keep my first term. thats really a big shift from what you saw in the 2008 election where obama was running, you know, this sort of epic, literary, historic, grandiose campaign and promising something that i dont think he actually delivered on despite his large and significant legislative achievements. >> ed, to what ...

Nourish. and no health care and today, i dont want to say you are okay. when you are poor but at the poverty level, there is a lot of heavy people on food stamps and you have a certain level of medicaid and you are better off because of the programs, it doesnt mean they dont need to be cut or tweaked and its not just this part of the budget, i argue everything but defense is welfare spending when it boils down to it. social security is welfare spending, if you dont put inasmuch as you are gettin...

Non-billionaires among us. today the obama campaign said that on wednesday of this week, the day after the second presidential debate, that was the single biggest fund-raising day barack obama has ever had. ever. and that includes the entire 08 presidential campaign. hes never in his career, not even in 2008, raised more money in one day than he raised the day after the debate this week on wednesday. how much did they raise? they are not yet saying but we can sleuth it out a little bit. one of t...

Behold the difference between the two parties. this was put together by the ap today. from their top five donors the democrats raise, like, 10 million bucks combined. the republicans get that three times over from just one guy. over this final two weeks of the campaign, cash is critical. for ads, for get out the vote, for staffing field offices, for the organization on the ground. the republicans are taking in that cash from their conservative billionaire pool as if that cash were being shot out...

Presidential debate, that was the single biggest fund-raising day barack obama has ever had. ever. and that includes the entire 08 presidential campaign. hes never in his career, not even in 2008, raised more money in one day than he raised the day after the debate this week on wednesday. how much did they raise? they are not yet saying but we can sleuth it out a little bit. one of the obama campaigns previous biggest fund-raising days ever was september 4th, 2008. on that single day we know the...

>> stuck up in the power cords. >> brian and daryl are skidding across live power lines when they smash into a pole and come to a stop 08 feet above the ground. >> i was thinking, wow, we are alive. >> alive, but the cockpit is smashed in and the two are hanging upside-down. daryl struggles to get a cell phone from brians pocket and manages to call 911. >> engine 26 is on the scene. >> captain mike flowers is among the first to arrive. >> it was certainly something i couldnt comprehend. ive neve...

Do the right thing? i dont. >> two interesting pieces of data. then, patrick, i want you to talk about the presidents record because he didnt talk about it explicitly. weve seen a doubling in our renewables. it went from 3 to 6%. were hitting the wind energy targets that were projected out to 2040 already. this is an amazing paradox, right? as climate has lurched backwards in the political debate, emissions have come down quite a bit. we now have a carbon emissions in 2012 at the 1990 levels. no...

Were close to that level. and that number will keep going higher and higher. thats why i think youre seeing the roster of swing states change. right. new mexico was won by bush in 04, contested in 08 and this time around the republicans are not contesting it. arizona is just out of reach for the democrats. it will become in reach pretty soon and i think you know, maybe 20 years it will be a democratic state. >> which is -- there was some talk in, you know, election cycles from not too too many e...

Debate. >> sean: ive got all these cuts to go to, but this is a broader and more important subject. they never vetted him in 2007 and 08. they never did. never seemed to care about bill ayers, jeremiah wright and more. how does a community organizer acorn radical end up as president? president and senator. never shows up in the u.s. senate either. pretty amazing story when you think about it. up until this year, mitt romney confronting him in the debates about his record, the media never asked, ...

>> its not just the visuals. theyve got people out early voting at these events. thats why obama is going to all these college campuses. they have voting booths set up out there so that once you gather all these guys to see these rock stars and the vice president and the president, they turn around and cast a ballot. they do get something out of it. >> theyre getting names. >> and then the college kid who oversleeps on election day gets to vote instead of blowing it. >> talk about that, having t...