this is important. wow, you re pretty good at that. whose card was that? mika, you want to talk about engender gap, all of us holding this? it, like, brings back a flood of memories. is there a piece of gum in there? yes. i ll take the gum. i like that part. there was a time where i could tell you what every world series what the hell, is this like 80 years old? 1903 to 1981. do you remember those cartoon cards in the world series? yeah. i still have those somewhere, but it helped me memorize every world series. those things were great. how old is this gum? vintage. it s not about the gum. this is where young men get introduced to currency, seriously. this was money to us. jack clark hit an enormous number of home runs. jack clark was a vicious right-handed hitter. you would not want to be playing third base. the ball sounded differently off his bat. really quickly, bobby valentine out, about as
because of europe. europe s not our fault. i m not counting those in the question. mika, your question assumes that men and women that own businesses are looking for an excuse not to hire people? i have never met a business owner that didn t want to make more money, that didn t want to grow. and they are. that didn t want to hire. mika, let me finish, that didn t want to hire more people. you know what happens when you hire more people? you make more money. and that s why dooi and we ve heard it. the president will walk into a meeting with all of these business owners. and he ll say to them, this is his advice, hire more people. hire more team. i want to do a real estate game. i m trying to buy property. but they won t because they prefer their profits. i m trying to buy property. mika, that s just dead wrong. that is just dead wrong. if you want to expand restaurant, small real estate business, you need loans, okay. but all you want to do, if you have one building i
he ll get rid of regulations on wall street, but he s going to crack down on sesame street. thank goodness somebody s finally cracking down on big bird. who knew that he was responsible for all these deficits? mika, what were your thoughts about barack obama not being able to deliver a single line like that when he didn t have the teleprompter and yesterday reading what his staff wrote for him so effectively on that stage with 30,000 people. it bothered me. we watch this every day. it seemed like some people might have been screaming at the tv saying, why aren t you saying that right now to him? it seemed prepared. but maybe that s the strategy. it was not satisfying at all. you know, willie it s like they took a whole day to respond. he carries this around where people are waiting till the next debate to see yeah. what is the depth of his understanding of the policies
political fighting. that s why the uncertainty scares people, not just the fiscal cliff but dealing with the fiscal cliff. mika, i think you re right. i think you re right. whatever you said was right. mm-hmm. jim cramer, thank you very much. blank check. she gets a blank check. not great number. i m afraid. not great number. we ll see you on mad money. thank you. weeknights at 6:00 and 11 on cnbc. it s an amazing show. our conversation with ed asner. first a story of courage and survival in nazi-occupied poland. look at this, it s a family reunion, mika! author matthew brzezinski joins us next. come here. i didn t see you standing over there. how are you doing? it s great to see you.
as did george w. bush, i think, in his eight years. so i guess it is human nature to come out and be shocked that somebody s punching you in the face after being so protected and basically play some bubble wrap in four years like we do with our president. the president is usually pretty good when the game s on the line. and the game s going to be on the line in two weeks. he s got to perform better or it will be a real problem. i think just to focus on the debates forgets the fact that governor romney needs to perform in the next two weeks. he can t just wait for the next debate. he did a conservative event. he did hannity. i still don t get the logic of his friday. how many days out are we, and he is finally he should do letterman. i get the logic of it. he had a great performance, mika. let it breathe through the weekend. willie s week in review is next.