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Americas fourth greatest president. >> every place is barack obama country once barack obama has been there. >> 13 million out of work. $15 trillion in debt and 15 straight months of unemployment above 8%. >> impressive accomplishments. >> thank you, steve. >> no. thank you, mr. president. >> greg: they use the music to make people sound stufffy. >> dana: where did they get that accent? stuart varney. >> greg: when the ads use humor over anger its more effective. dont you think? >> andrea: alway...

But hes had a very rough week. >> how about romney, what would you grade him at? >> romney is right back there with the b plus and the a. he keeps coasting toward the nomination and the other part of the party is splitting in eight pieces. >> lets rate the week with baseball. bostons spectacular september collapse, capping off with that devastating loss on wednesday. and the rays pull off the come from behind win against the yankees. you cant make this stuff up. so bat, you ore a politics person...

>> yes. i do think they would rather see obama versus perry. although it seems to me that theyre still kind of trying to lay groundwork for obama versus romney. they seem to think that in the end its probably going to be romney. and if perry continues at this rate, theyll be right, i think. romney is turning in solid performance after solid performance in the debates. they might be "b" performances or "b" plus. theyre not "a" plus. hes a good debater and he manages to put the focus on perry and ...

Republican nominee. >> romney, a, santorum, b plus, huntsman, c, cain c minus, johnson c minus, gingrich had done well the past couple of debates. >> i think gingrich had a better night than c. just on the basis of that one line alone. >> mark has been tough on gingrich for a while. unlike us, weve been straight down the middle. santorum and huntsman had quite a back and forth on afghanistan. and you -- it was a fascinating part for me, mike barnicle, we talk about it all the time. but when you ...

>> if were you to grade them collectively, governor what would you be saying? >> b plus, a minus. good job. whats at fault here is the media, michael. let me explain why. there was an article by will bunch ever the "daily news" who you know is a great reporter. he quoted some weather scientist as saying by thursday we knew this hurricane was not going to be as severe as we were telling people on tv, and i think the media has a responsibility to try to get it right. they can say, look, theres alw...

Because the iowa caucus, going to go ahead and let corn be mushed into energy in an inefficient way? i think the higher prices go mortgage there is going to be a stranglehold on government to finally fix this and come to grips with this as opposed to making this just a political issue. >> i agree with that mark, thanks for the time on the phone today, barry, thank you for coming to advice is the come ing to visit us in midtown. a tribute to a man who not only changed the president? i hollywood...

Story. john tester of montana says if youre not using real beef, taco bell, why not tap in to some montana beef? heres what he says. montanas ranchers raise the best cattle in the world. if taco bell needs to beef up, they can give their customers the highest quality meat around by using montana beef. thats a win-win. >> whats the secret recipe? >> they dont disclose that. its that 12% you worry about. 88%, its not bad. its like the b-plus of meat. you know? >> better than the grades i got. do...

Obama and all that stuff, but by the way, they have hundreds of invitations to come and campaign around the country, there are certain places they dont come from. they dont come from mississippi, from louisiana, from georgia, and frankly, it does raise the issue about whether the civil war -- never mind, i wont get into that, ill get into trouble. martha: maybe a good idea. andrea, go ahead. i mean, hes touting what basically is big accomplishments in the auto industry, and in other places as we...

Of meet and succeed in saying, these kids are really doing exceptionally well. >> because, those measures are arbitrary. on the part of teachers. teachers just assign grades to kids, all over the country in a very arbitrary way and you could have a third grade teacher in an elementary school and a 3rd grade teacher in the same school giving different grades to kids achieving the same amount of work. martha: i hear you and nobody wants to see a students treated unfairly by a teacher who doesnt li...

>> well, its time to see how america grades the president. earlier we asked you to send your e-mails on obamas report card. cale lee from our staff is here to read some of them. lets see what the audience thinks and if they match up with the guests. >> troy from the u.s. army clearly an f. any leader who creates back to back fiscal budgets 54,000 dollars a seeked is an idea log hell bent on america. >> pretty harsh from troy from the army. >> elizabeth writes i am an english teacher and give gra...