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This thing, facebook, creates so much wealth while wasting all of our time! how does it do that? its incredible! its a wonderful thing. it gets to bring people together in a weird world. >> thankfully they create jobs. meanwhile, obama tried stimulating the economy and guess what happened today? 400 billion more dollars are going to be thrown at trying to stimulate the economy through bond purchases. we just did $600 billion a few months ago. it didnt work. unemployment keeps rising every month....

Minority. at the polls, it doesnt work out that way. three of those points came over the over 300,000 crowd. he has to bring people together. the decisive strategy doesnt work. moving to the center, isolating the republicans as being against medicare, medicare, education and the environment that is the strategy that worked. not for being for trillions of dollars in tax increases. >> it seems he has been the middle of the road, he has gotten stuck. the people dont like him being wishy wishy. >> o...

Walter mondale-type strategy. make the republicans pay the price. as clinton made them pay a big price, with tough negotiations, he has to be for expanding the economy, going into the international economy, putting money into new areas. he is not doing that. that is not his message. >> from the state of the union, education, invasion and building. the job speech. he gets, i dont understand what you want him to do? dealing with hostage takers, you look at the jobs plan, a lot of that, as he says,...

This thing, facebook, creates so much wealth while wasting all of our time! how does it do that? its incredible! its a wonderful thing. it gets to bring people together in a weird world. >> thankfully they create jobs. meanwhile, obama tried stimulating the economy and guess what happened today? 400 billion more dollars are going to be thrown at trying to stimulate the economy through bond purchases. we just did $600 billion a few months ago. it didnt work. unemployment keeps rising every month....

Which is every time you come out there and try to -- to take a more center position, the republicans this year have kicked him in the teeth. he cant -- >> going hard right. >> he cant negotiate from that position. it was bill clinton back in 1992. >> thats a good question. >> who raised taxes. >> youre saying dont be a lefty, but doesnt he have to start on the left to get to the center in any final deal or anything to do with debt reduction? >> no. he has to take a strong position, rejecting the...

It works. but the problem is -- >> and get more revenue. >> get more revenue. the problem is this president doesnt want to do that. he does not want to lower the rate on income. he wants to raise the marginal rate on income and raise a surtax on those who make more. >> thats right. >> doesnt work. >> so actually steve rattner said last hour whether you like it or dont like it the wealthy will actually pay more taxes than they did even under bill clinton. were at the top of the hour. a lot of peo...

Welcome back to "morning joe." 33 past the hour. iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad arrives in new york today for the united nations general assembly. irans courts are considering a $1 million bail deal to release two american hikers jailed there. the hikers must wait until tuesday for a second judge to approve the deal. speaking for the first time publicly since his arrest on sexual assault charges in may -- >> well, she cant be too close, dominic strauss-kahn appeared on french tv yesterd...

Doesnt this put the president in a position of once again having to be in a conciliatory relationship when he could have just chosen another night? >> well, he could have. one, he could have believed that the speaker had no choice but to acquiesce, after all, its a request from the president of the united states and speakers usually do acquiesce, second, you know, if it were me, and i were the president, which would be awful for the country, but if i were the president, i would be tempted to say...

Not just on the same night but at the exact same time. now, the debate has been scheduled for quite a long time, and lots of people have been saying that president obama needs to get tougher with the opposition, especially in his negotiations with republicans who over and over again seem to walk away, getting everything they want. well, here he is acting like a republican, right? heres president obama stepping on gop presidential candidates and reminding them that he is, after all, already presi...

$2.7 in two years, and no separate vote on a balanced budget amendment. right now theyre trying to reconcile and get the votes, boehner. the minute he gets to 218, he will schedule a vote on the house floor, i promise you. >> if i sat next to you in class, youd be the one id cheat off. >> miss lehigh? >> yes, 2000. >> bob, you think the republicans are in disarray, right? >> are they in disarray? oh, no, not at all. boehner goes into his caucus, says, here we go, we got it all set. deadly silenc...