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I think there is a competence issue. there is also a character issue with n washington what is known as confirmation conversion where confronted with statement after statement he made before, he said i didnt quite appointee it. maybe i misspoke. i would put it a different way. it really was very weak performance. i think it has to be troubling to the administration as they look ahead to the coming vote. >> greta: is there a difference in qualification for the job of secretary of state versus sec...

Those of any president since lincoln would the possible exceptions of lincoln, lbj and fdr. his oceanic self-esteem, no deficit there, he smolders with resentment that he must actually ask for a second term. >> an orgy of words. >> fantastic. i should have my daughter read it. shes getting ready for the s.a.t. katty kay, take it away. >> george will feeling in flowery form there. >> is there a point there? >> one, he seems to be saying that president obama has a character issue that he doesnt li...

That not only is it okay for you to change your mind, i believe in people changing their mind, but that you can get away with running from the things that you had previously claimed with your heart dpfelt believes and denying that they were ever true. its a character issue and i find it disqualifying. >> john mccain gave a serious of issues, very tough, ripped the bark off president obama on a series of national security issues. until mitt romney event efrd the debate tontd those were his positi...

Of agreement for mitt romney. >> the thing important about that too, he said i completely agree with you on drones, on syria, on afghanistan and that is a complete reversal of my previous position. but on the libyan issue as well as afghanistan issue, hes not only hugging the president, but hes denying that he ever previously criticized this position. >> romnesia. >> this is a question of whether or not he denied he ever held them becomes a character issue. >> i think that when you see -- but wh...

Security in libya and why? that was a question from a voter in nassau county, new york. does the campaign think that the governor blew that answer? >> well, i think candy crowley jumping in there kind of knocked him off his pace and when the president deliberately lied about what happened in the rose garden i think he was being showed that the president would lie in front of 70 million people. so it knocked him off a little bit. i think now he is prepared for the fact he might get more dissembli...

Flipflop, flipflop strategy here. its a real like kind of fundamental concern. >> its a character issue here. politicians change their minds all the time. in fact, we should respect and trust a little more a politician who will change his or her mind on a core issue. >> if theyve learned something. >> abortion, climate change, immigration, gay rights. >> evolving on marriage equality. >> health care. but all of them? thats the problem with mitt romney. he has changed his position on all of those...

In the wrong place and she admitted afterwards that her on the fly fact checking was wrong, that mitt romney was mainly right. so, the governor did have to handle but he did handle them both well and i think he put the facts on the table, that the economy is the big issue, and in terms of foreign policy, its not just national security and foreign policy associated with libya but it now has become a character issue in terms of the white house ao*ps handling it. martha: do you think these two gent...

Personally affected each of your lives? >> if the question -- if -- maybe i will get it wrong, are you suggesting that if somebody has means that the national debt doesnt affect them? >> well, what im saying -- >> not sure i get t help me with the question, i will try to answer it. >> you know people who have lost their jobs and lost their homes? >> uh-huh. >> well, i have been governor of a small state for 12 years. i will tell you how to has affected me. in my state, when people lose their job...

Character issue? we are not here just playing gotcha, once your start seeing this pattern, does this become a character issue for ryan in the campaign? >> i think they can use it. they got nominal traction out of it. but i think whats more important, more dangerous the fact there are a lot of americans who saw that speech and took it at face value. just believed it and now it is -- unfortunately for the president, incumbent upon him in house own speech to really go after those troops to talk abo...

Continue dog the campaign? kevin madden joins me now off the record. welcome back. youve lost a few pounds. what are they doing to you out there? this is the campaign diet. >> a lot of coffee, lot of jet fumes. >> well, not sure how healthy a lifestyle it is. >> were having fun out there, at least. >> i know youre having fun. not so much fun on the tax issue. how does he put this to rest? why did he open up on it yesterday after you stopped, did a press conference to talk about medicare, you had...