he has strong relationship with corporate entities in newark. he worked really closely with private sector growth to help the public side in newark and that, so he doesn t want to burn the folks that have helped him to rebuild newark in a very positive way. i don t want to get into a fight about cory booker, just not forget cory booker got into the battle with jeff van der beek who built the devil s arena in newark. martha: that is a bad thing, to work with the private sector. no, no. isn t fighting with the private sector. quite the opposite. he had a huge blowout with the owner of the devils. martha: the fact remains let me go back to something andrea said. harold ford, jr., has been a spokesman for wall street. he is an executive at a major wall street investment bank. let s not say harmed ford, jr., represents views of average american. president obama bailed out wall street? no, actually president bush bailed out wall street. that s right, he didn t do the second hal
bailout? i think he did. martha: there is an interesting piece in the@atlantic, which raises a question and i think other folks looked at this statement by cory booker gee, that is what barack obama used to sound like, a very sort of refreshing politician who wasn t held to the views of either side in a way that felt like, old inside politics. here is a quote from the atlantic from a writer there, graham is his last name. he said booker s comments don t just make it hard for obama to attack romney on bain, they offer uncomfortable reminder how voters used to see the president. interesting. julie, what do you see about that. i don t agree. there is profound difference in how obama approached the bain debate versus how cory booker approached the bain debate. i think the difference is this. obama believes, as do i, if mitt romney will make the bain capital the centerpiece of his campaign it is legitimate issue for discussion. cory booker doesn t believe that. if cory booker doesn t
this country and create jobs and build companies and do that kind of thing. you say you ve known cory booker for many years. you think he was wrong to support private equity in that quote? no, no. i think what cory booker did and i think where cory booker was wrong essentially go out there equate the fact that attacks on bain are legitimate this is something mitt romney made a centerpiece of his campaign. don t forget, not like mitt romney hasn t been talk about his record at bain all thee years. this is legitimate issue. what cory booker essentially did equate those attacks comparing attacks on jeremiah wright and barack obama one has nothing to do with the other. obama has not made area may wru write centerpiece of his campaign. if mitt romney wants to talk about all the companies he bailed out and all the companies he created jobs where even his republican opponents in the primaries actually his record at bain
was incredibly exaggerated, you want to talk about the wealth he created for partners at bain but not so much for the companies that tale actually was involved in, then that s very fair game for obama to discuss as well. that is something romney made a centerpiece of his campaign. that is where cory booker went wrong. what cory booker did was essentially appeal to his own donor base. he raised a lot of money from wall street. it is not just cory booker. harold ford, jr. own car czar a number of democrats, julie and hold on i let you speak. the reason why cory booker came out and said reverend wright attacks and attacks on bain capital were bad because he said they re both nauseating. this is such a baseless charge about bain capital and laughable to think that somehow the president is going to win an election going after capitalism and he is doing might i add by himself. not getting any air cover. martha: i would point something out too if you follow mayor booker s career you re well
choice for president, economy, jobs, 52%. let s take a look at the next one here which is a deeper look at that. who do you think would do a better job handling the economy, this one has not been looking this way in recent polls, steve. they re in a dead-heat, who would do better for the economy. so interesting. in some ways this poll echoes some others we ve seen in the past weeks and some ways it different. you have several categories voters seem to be somewhat pessimistic about the past. they look at, you know, the poll that he just showed, are you better off than you were four years ago? by two to one voters saying they re not if they re one way or the other that is a negative, that s negative for the president for sure. there are a couple other findings in this poll that are negatives for the president if you look backwards. if you look forward the president seems to be at least competitive and there are voters who seem to be optimistic if he hasn t solved the problem