touch with the american people. he want another stimulus, hire more government workers. needs more firemen, teachers, policemen. did he not get the message ofs with? the american people did. it s time for us to cut back on government justin, surprisingly, mitt romney is making hay republicans make hay out of any comments regarding the economy when it comes to the president. mark halperin, inimitable mark halperin, not only do republicans this romney might win this, democrats are getting spooked. the economy, we ve been talking about. the job numbers last week, comments about the bush tax cuts and the debacle that s lining up to be and of course the health care law, the supreme court may overturn the individual mandate. in terms of economics, what is romney s strongest message? what we re going to see, romney talking about levels. talk about the level of the economy. the level of the unemployment
these policies in place and forget about the specifics of our growth tied to european growth? absolutely. partly used as an excuse. that s the story you just described. there s an element of truth to that, just an element. he s drawing the contrast, seeing romney talking about obama as being european. that s the story he ll go with, i this. important as well, though, that we understand, we re forgetting so much of the cause. european crisis and the problems with the euro came from the global financial debacle that created the problem here at home, and if we forget that and talk about, oh, it s the european nanny state, well the scandinavian social democracies are doing pretty well when you look at europe. that s not the problem. the problem was the global financial meltdown that has to do with the same wall street issues we ve got here and the lack of financial reform. so they need to make a contrast. it s not nanny state europe. it s it s global financial devastation. a great
the president, god bless bill clinton, we all love him, but he has a very conflicted relationship with president obama. this part of it secretly on some weird, profound level that wants obama to lose so then he can have like, the legacy of the best democratic president post-world war ii and i think that s part of it. on that ego level, bill clinton that wants to save this thing. the white knight and save the democratic party. that s part of it. bill clinton goes off message. we love to write about and compile all the hypothetical ulterior motives. what s happening, bill clinton could be a terrific surrogate. the thing he said this week that didn t get attention, enkansas laenkansas encapsulated the situation in europe. european-style austerity. a simple message people can understand. not what we focused on, but once we shake off the rust. used to hanging out with bono.
rate. 8.2%. bad economy. a slump. on the other side, democrats talking about changes. the unemployment rate is down two percentage points. every single talking point between now and then, i guarantee you re hear level, changes. trying to predict election winners, scientists, changes predict who wins elections. so the fact that he s brought the unemployment rate down, the fact the stock market is rising, the fact employment growth is positive, all very strong for the president. he s got to figure a way to carry talking about head winds and a rhetoric around it and convince the american public that we are headed in a positive direction. the economy, and in a dead economy obama has, thit say it the president has created jobs, as we avoid congress, but the more jobs created, 3.5 plus million in the three years, than in the entire bush administration. quoted in the wall street journal. dropped taxes, cut taxes. everybody s doing great.
the obama arsenal, he s sort of undermyroned the mission. and good at avoiding the nuanced arguments, making the great sound bites. the down side, when he delivers a sound bite that no one bothers to examine what the substance was top to say that venture capitalists or private equity firms have a role in our society is is a statement woe probably a probab we would all agree with but a blueprint for driving a political economy is a different story. i get what they re saying. the sound bite republicans are saying, it will tell, i must admit, my non-intellectuality reaction to that was. gut reaction? hillary must be running in 2016 and bill is taking carriage of the wall street a whole separate shishgs think, whether or not hillary s running, ben, but almost sort of beside the point. you know, the echo chamber