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It exponentially. i thought what was fascinating about the speech, how little new he offered. did you notice that. it was just so devoid of anything that-- >> adam, adam. charlie, neither party did. and you know, paul ryan has a plan. theres no doubt. barack obama has four more years and really, nothing new, give me one policy initiative thats different, i mean, what does he want to do? >> well, ill give you one. ill give you one, again, were talking about speeches. but the president alluded to ...

To clean up what the republicans are doing on the local level, that shows you how bad they are acting. >> and the fascinating shift was in the democratic party, the all-white party and convention. now we see the republican party picking up the same -- >> can i tell you a quick statistic? the 2008 primaries, hillary clinton by herself got more actual votes than all of the republican candidates combined. the turnout for the democratic primary was something like double the turnout for the republica...

To anybody? about being beat up? >> how could i do that? ive got to live here. >> i understand that, but you could have went down and said, hey, this happened. you didnt have to give them a name. >> and if id have done that, where would i be now? >> i dont know. >> yeah, you do. you work here. you know what would have happened if id done that. >> anything else you want to add to your statement? >> no. no. its not doing me any good. >> based on that case file, i am going to find you guilty of bat...

And 65 opened the door for blacks to enter politics again. gradually at first, but by the mid-1970s, there was a steady stream of duly elect add african-american city officials, state reps, members of congress, mayors. >> so from 68 to 08 was a 40-year period of really learning and engaging in the political process. out of that emerges president barack. he came in running the last lap, a tremendous last lap, of a 40-year race. >> im here because somebody marched for our freedom. im here because ...

>> when the decision was made by the democrats that they were going to put the issue in primetime with your speech and a lot of other references and speeches with cecile richards speaking from planned parenthood, by a patient speaking about her experience there. by putting it on tv in their big 72-hour infomercial this week, do you think there were decisions on how to pitch it? essentially how to make a decision on how to vote for barack obama? was it a hard decision? >> not at all because women...

Cent more in taxes. >> everybody, there you hear the vice president. im joined right now by former pennsylvania governor ed rendell, an msnbc analyst and joe watkins republican strategist. here you hear the vice president in zanesville, ohio. we should explain its east of columbus, in a rather rural coal mining area there of ohio and remind people as well that the president won the state of ohio back in 08. but hes really ticking off boom, boom, boom, talking about the rising cost of education, ...

Any chance theyre stalling on hiring because the presidential election is nearing, theyre waiting to see which way it turns? >> i really dont. a lot of us who work in this business kind of tell ourselves stories like that because were so focused on that kind of data and dynamic. basically, if youre an employer and theres enough demand for your good or your services that youre selling that you would actually be leaving money on the table, leaving profit on the table were you not to hire an extra ...

The group has been known for years. so why this designation just now? jennifer griffin has more info on that live from the pentagon. >> reporter: well the military has been pushing for the haqqani network to be designated a terror network for years. policies the bush administration and continuing under the obama administration made it so that the state department stood in the way of such a designation. today that changed. in a statement from secretary of state hillary clinton, quote, today i hav...

Every day, and this was reported january of 2011. the second thing i tweeted was a fox news report about the december jobs report in 08 that said this is the worst job situation in 60 years in america. now, i agree with john sununu. i saw him in charlotte, hes a great guy and i agree with him when he says the only problem with beating up on america is that the rest of the world looks worse, so were making progress. i know a lot of republicans are popping champagne today on bad news that we gaine...

Words in it. i tweeted the actual news story from fox. >> i could tell you theres an earthquake in italy but the point is thats apart from people who lead the workforce because they cant get work. the latest month, 368,000 were like that. youre right to look at the trends for 30 strait months of job gains but theyre paltry. the numbers are what they are. are you worried that whatever excitement was in the convention center when you and i were there could dissipate quickly when americans say what...