they think the same thing as what he said last week after he said that the middle class has been buried over the past four years. i just don t think people that are dumb. i will tell you, though, i would be willing to bet some money that the vice president will be much more effective in his debate with paul ryan than the president was in his debate with mitt romney because the vice president is used to getting beaten up. well, that s not a really high bar, is it, now. gene robinson, you wrote obama s off night gives romney an opening. and i do think that joe biden has been out there and is used to getting beat up. and i think will do very well in the debate along with paul ryan. but your column, talking about obama s off night. can you help us out here? we re trying to figure out what happened to president obama. where was he? where was he? that s the question. it was really, you know, you kind of watched the thing unfold and just wondered when it was when the debate was
come on. [ applause ] you know the phrase they always use, obama and biden want to raise taxes by $1 trillion. guess what? yes, we do, in one regard. we want to let that $1 trillion tax cut expire so the middle class doesn t have to bear burden of all that money going to the super wealthy. that s not a tax raise. that s called fairness where i come from. vice president biden, congressman paul ryan are prepping if for their own debate next thursday at center college in danville, kentucky. the united nations security council is condemning the shelling by syrian forces in a turkey down that killed women and children. turkey s military responded with artillery fire, raising the prospect of a wider conflict between the two nations. syria remains locked in a brutal civil war that s killed an
erasing the federal estate tax is to eliminate deductions that will inevitably touch the middle class. the romney folks say the obama campaign and tax policy center created a strawman. the problem is the romney campaign hasn t created their own and responded with any detail on how they would do it. it becomes impossible at least politically once you account for the pledge handcuffs that romney has made. while the president didn t fully acknowledge he came up short last night, aides did indicate he ll be more prepared for the second debate. it s like a playoff in sports. you evaluate after every contest and you make adjustments and i m sure that we will make adjustments. you can t allow someone to stand there and basically man handle the truth about their own record and ideas and about yours and not deal with that. i tell you, supporters i talked to at the denver rally
president who would increase taxes on the middle class. take a look. who will raise taxes on the middle class? according to an independent nonpartisan study, barack obama and the liberals will raise taxes on the middle class by $4,000. the same organization says the plan for mitt romney and common-sense conservatives is not a tax hike on the middle class. want proof? read the nonpartisan study for yourself at american.com. obama and his liberal allies, we can t afford four more years. i m mitt romney and i approved this message. okay. and yesterday while in council bluffs, iowa, vice president joe biden shot back agreeing the obama plan would raise taxes, just not on the middle class. on top of the trillion dollars of spending we ve already cut, we re going to ask, yes. we re going to ask the wealthy to pay more. my heart breaks. come on. man. you know the phrase you always
was shockingly bad which, again, reminded me, took me back and i know mike, you ll remember it, all you guys will remember it ronald reagan in 1984 where i just sat there in horror how he was going to try to bring this thing in for a landing. four years ago i said i m not a perfect man and i wouldn t be a perfect president, and that s a promise governor romney thinks i ve kept. but i ll fight every single day, i ve kept that promise, and if you ll vote for me, then i promise i ll fight just as hard in a second term. wow, i m trying. you re trying what? that s the message, i m trying. i ll fight for the middle class. e for effort. every city council person from here to, you know, seattle, washington. he s got a lot to talk about. he s got a lot to talk about. maybe he had the flu. maybe he had the flu.