was analytical, appears obama has modes of strength. one is reading internet, magazines, whatever the other is executive-type meetings. i didn t write about it in this article, there are things i left out, a friend of mine who is a successful business executive says he has good managerial temperament, a broad osmosis. no bull sessions, no sitting around, he would never invite a couple senators to talk about things at night. that s true. we remembered how bill clinton did all kind of thing, obama more of a he would be calling people at 3:00 in the morning, i know that he has things, i know this from hearing things from him that
there s no such thing as coronation in politics. it s not easy to get the nomination. it s not easy to be elected president. this is a testing approach. so far, we re doing pretty well. welcome back to hardball. that s what the guy who is losing looks like. a coronation it most certainly is not for mitt romney. if anything, the gop race is more in the state of flux following rick santorum s wins two nights ago. more concerning for the former massachusetts governor are the republican intelligencia worries about his candidacy. the wall street journal editorial today reads in part, conservatives don t trust mr. romney in part because he gives them little reason to do so. he seems to retreat at the first sound of a liberal moral argument. this means he d play defense against president obama who is distilling his campaign to a moral defense of taxing the rich and government redistributive justice.
future of america. ronald reagan was an optimist at heart who made everybody feel in the conservative movement for sure, feel excited about the conservative agenda for the country. feel it was an optimistic thing. it was going to get the country going again. you don t sense that in anything other than a mechanical way from mitt romney. he s offering a power point. he s got 59 points about how to make the economy better. they re not conservative principles. they have to find a way to articulate a more conservative message. here comes the new biography on the guy. a new personal tale for romney on the trail this week is the time he spent as a mormon minister. here he was yesterday in atlanta. in my church, we don t have a professional ministry. so people are asked to serve as the minister or the pastor of their congregation from time to time. i had a privilege of doing that for over ten years. and in that capacity, i had the chance to work with people who lost their jobs in som
church, where, in fact, he did have to deal with individual problems, did have to get involved with the emotions of people is actually a very stirring thing. but they should have thought of that by now. i don t know that it s too late. but for him i don t want to be too secular about this. that is an important message. that is the core whof he is. is he still the favorite? yes. yes. thank you. thank you david gregory and howard fineman. a little slower there. up next, what kind of president has barack obama been in his first three years of office? james fallows is joining us. it s an in-depth article out in the atlantic. a big thing on the president and how he s done for three years. it s very important for people to catch up on the depth of this guy s administration. this is hardball on msnbc. want my downy unstopables? laundry smells good for a long time. nmm mmn. really, you can have it! take it joe. downy unstopables [ sniffs ]
that s one thing. second of all, he has expanded the office of faith-based initiatives, and he has also offended his secular base by continuing the bush administration policy that lets people who get that funding, taxpayer funding, discriminate against people who don t practice that faith. they can even not hire people like single moms or gay men who practice things against the church. obama went along with that. he issued an executive order. really deeply offending his base. he also put stimulus money into churches through the office of faith-based initiatives. the catholic charities usa said he s done more for faith-based initiatives than president bush who started and expanded the program. so this notion that this president is against christianity or against faith is preposterous. he is a christian and has supported christianity. he s bucked his base on these