the obama re-elect team was absolutely right to take a gigantic lasso and wrap it around romney and ryan. and i have to say, as someone who has watched them bungle over and over and over again the messaging operation, the fact that they are starting early and apparently going to go often i think is very reassuring to a lot of democrats to watch the president get pilloried for no reason at all. >> i want to re-run the moment where president obama finally said the word "romney." let's listen to the naming names portion of the president's speech. >> one of my potential opponents, governor romney, has said that he hoped a similar version of this plan from last year would be introduced as a bill on day one of his presidency. he said that he's very supportive of this new budget. and he even called it marvelous. >> so there's the president calling out romney. romney shows up today, and he says, hey, he's accusing me of things i haven't proposed. and then romney proposes raising