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President obama is being outflanked by in a large measure by mr. romney probably the area that he's having the most difficulty with. doesn't bill clinton and the jobs program on those jobs numbers directly address that audience? >> bill clinton had his own breed of clinton democrat. that is what republicans talk about obama having trouble with. so what you want to do, nobody feels your pain to this day better than bill clinton. you send him out there, you have him talk to those people from the heart and say we're going to get back to that place where you had security and you felt good about yo...

Connect with voters, and he's extremely good, probably better than any other democrat alive today of making the case for democratic policies. his -- you know, you know that his speech in charlotte is going to be a good one. he's going to lay out -- use his years like he did there, and say, i had four years of surpluses, then we went into a deficit. and he's -- he's just a tremendously effective campaigner, there's no question about it. now, you know, it's interesting that he brought up deregulation, because as you remember, and we were all critical of it at the time, the clinton administration...

Convention. and y not? he left office with a $236 billion budget surplus. president obama and the republicans quickly turned that into an $11 trillion budget deficit. clinton offered a balanced approach that included raising taxes in 1993. that compared to the seven bush/cheney tax cuts. 23 million jobs were created during clinton years compared to a paltry 3 million for bush/cheney. policy results. fairness matters. joining me now is alicia menendez and chrystia freeman. great to have you with us. what do you make of the decision? >> i think this shows that

you can call me nuts, can you call me ching little, if you want. but the political battle being waged over extending the bush tax cuts is blowing those storm bands over our heads. look, you don't need me to tell you our economy is on the brink of weakening again. you feel it every day. latest cnn/orc polls just 27% of you say the economy is in good shape. 73% feel that conditions are pretty poor. and while rays of hope peek through the clouds from time to time, the u.s. economy is fragile right now. families are facing long-term unemployment. there are foreclosures. higher student ...

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