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You mentioned the other gaffe. this was when the president of the united states said the private sector is doing just fine. and hes taken some heat and in fact, the rnc rolled out a commercial within an hour, mitt romney let him have it within an hour. then he came back out about three, four hours later and said, its absolutely clear the economy is not doing fine. when we had john mccain here, we reminded him of the time during the crash in 2008 when he talked about how the fundamentals of the e...

In 1980, and that will be the kind of positive set of ideas that will draw people to him and make him 4 within the rac win the race on his own positive agenda. its not clear what view is right. martha: and its not clear if he is that man, if thats who he is and thats the kind of candidate that he wants to be. i was thinking back to the 08 election and john mccain and sarah palin used reform a lot. they said they were reformers, that was the platform they were running on and yet that message at l...

State and the political dynamics here. at the end of the defense opening statement, joe amendola talked and raised questions about why wasnt sandusky wasn sandusky arrested in 08, 09, 2012, et cetera. i thought he was weaving together a political argument and pointing a finger without naming the current governor, the then attorney general of pennsylvania. is that how you interpreted that portion of the opening statement? >> yes. thats exactly what it sounds like. i believe what the defense attor...

Time that the big bill america paid in 20 08 with bob ruben and alan greenspan in the 90s, create currencies, borrow money against it, create the debt and be wonderful and greece and europe is the subprime bar, give people all this money? are you crazy? and now the big bill coming through, only three people that can pay it, for the audience at home, make this easy for everybody. big bill coming due in europe, 100 billion, who knows, three rich uncles left that can pay the bill, the first rich un...

Is that voters will say, hes likable enough, but he didnt get the job done. where the obama pollsters say hes someone whos comfortable with himself. comfortable in his own skin and that translates to voters. >> yeah. i think, nicole, i have seen barack obama on stage. i remember one time in the 08 campaign where he was walking around on stage talking to the audience members, he was like, hey, feed your kid good breakfast. dont give them cold fried chicken from the night before. >> sounds like bi...

Barack obama won and his first act as president was to announce to a meeting of congressional leaders, i won and im going to ram through the stimulus that i want. he set the tone when it comes to governing by the way that he went about with his first and signature step to try to heal the economy. so i think republicans and know -- >> which is policy. >> mainstream republican -- but republicans have -- it was not just policy the tone in which he went out and enacting his first policy. republicans...

but my sense is that one of them involves this long general election. is the public losing interest in the way we cover the presidential campaign? the justice department is investigating national security leaks to "the new york times" and critics blame the obama team for spilling some of the secrets that put the administration in a favorable light. >> a firestorm today as republicans claim the white house has been leaking national security secrets to the press, to make president obama ...

Splash among racial liberals. and this is something we saw extremely strong in the primary where barack obama has a 25 point increase in the support from december to much. and when we looked at that, that is plm completely driven by white, racial liberals coming into the flock. >> i thinke and its a little confusing. i think you basically need to walk us through this. the smoking gunl is what happens in 2 0e 08, right? when youre asking whats driving peoples attitudes about hillary clinton, its ...

Obama campaign message. >> this is stunning. i am actually viseed that governor rendell did that. he has been an outspoken man with his own mind. but this was, i guess this was bolder and sharper than i expected. >> a couple of thoughts. he is trying to sell a book t. helps to say controversial thing when you are doing that. i think you are beginning it see, for folks who supportedded hillary clinton, a little bit reminding people that they had their bets elsewhere. so if the obama presidency do...

Marriage initiative. thats a serious point it. brings people out. is this actually something that you think could swing the state? >> as funny as it is, its possible. and theres a couple of reasons to think so. first of all, colorado in 2000 and 2006 had a ballot initiative. so the parties have an idea of who shows up to vote for these people. young people, under 35, and they tend to vote democratic. they are also a hard to reach segment of voters. as i said, potheads not the most civically incl...