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Has "never worked." obama who delivered the speech in the same town where teddy roosevelt unveiled his plans for the deal said his vision for more balanced financial system is not class warfare, but about returning to core american principles. >> i believe that this country succeeds when everyone gets a fair shot. when everyone does their fair share. when everyone plays by the same rules. these arent democratic values or republican values, these arent 1% values or 99% values, theyre american val...

Face it, in a presidential debate with barack obama. pay attention, everyone. finally, which gop candidate comes to mind when is comes to waffling on issues? mitt romney maybe? back in 2004 romney was going after a democratic candidate for, get this, flip-flopping. heres what he said about john kerry back in 2004. lets listen. >> when youre running for office, you look at your opponents record, you find someplace where he or she has changed position and say theyre a flip-flopper and thats a pr...

In congress the approval rating is 20% among these voters. there needs to be messaging around about republicans are going to do to attract these voters. >> youre going to stick with us but this is what a lot of people in the presidents base have been waiting for. yesterday he made that populist pitch for another four years. it was a fiery speech in kansas. the president said this is a make or break moment for the middle class, calling it the defining moment of our time. >> i believe that this co...

Democratic party as protecters of the middle class which he claims is under middle class assault. he used the phrase middle class 20 times. >> this is a make or break moment for the middle class, for all those fighting to get in the middle class. the middle class shrunk. a child born today will have a one in three chance of making it to the middle class. if we want a strong middle class, incomes lift the middle class. offers security. we simply cannot return to this brand of youre on your own ec...

About politics. anyway, thank you. im out of words anyway. thank you. up next, president obama tried to channel teddy roosevelt in his speech out in kansas. weve got an expert here. roosevelt is a favor of republicans but he also called for bigger government in many ways, taxes on the rich, graduated income tax, graduated tax on inheritance, all kinds of things that sound a bit more like todays democrat. lets hear from an expert on him coming up right now. shes writing a book on teddy roosevel...

My deep conviction that were greater together than we are on our own. i believe this country succeeds when everyone gets a fair shot, when everyone does their fair share. when everyone plays by the same rules. these arent democratic values or republican values. these arent 1% values or 99% values. theyre american values. and we have to reclaim them. >> the president today harking back to that 2004 awesome god in the blue states, one united states of america speech which put him on the national m...

Finally, which gop candidate comes to fimind when is comes t waffling on issues? mitt romney maybe? back in 2004 romney was going after a democratic candidate for, get this, flip-flopping. heres what he said about john kerry back in 2004. lets listen. >> when youre running for office, you look at your opponents record, you find someplace where he or she has changed position and say theyre a flip-flopper and thats a pretty standard thing. but in this case, this guy really is. i wont go through th...

Our own. i believe this country succeeds when everyone gets a fair shot, when everyone does their fair share. when everyone plays by the same rules. these arent democratic values or republican values. these arent 1% values or 99% values. theyre american values. and we have to reclaim them. >> the president today harking back to that 2004 awesome god in the blue states, one united states of america speech which put him on the national map for the first time in that summer convention speech when j...

But a lot of it was something that wed heard before. again, hes wrapping himself obviously in the mantle of a republican president, though im not quite sure that roosevelt was really a republican at that time. but, you know, this is something that weve seen from this president before. he will please his base in a lot of ways but in some ways were past the point of big speeches and its time for this president to do something. i thought he was great out on the stump when he was able to do somethin...

Share. when everyone plays by the same rules. these arent democratic values or republican values. these arent 1% values or 99% values. theyre american values. and we have to reclaim them. >> welcome back to "hardball." today president obama gave a hint, as you just heard, of the framing of his 2012 election message. its about fairness, as you just heard, and obamas location was the same kansas town where republican president theodore roosevelt delivered his new nationalism speech, in which he ca...