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We want a government that is the side of helping people help themselves? or do we want a philosophy which the national republican party has been pushing anyway, which says that everybody's on his or her own? i think at the end of the day, the american people are going to choose a partnership with leadership in the form of president obama, which is about helping people help themselves. and the jobs bill is just the most recent. and i think very important -- >> what is he doing now? is this a base strategy? sp that where you think the president finds his voice? >> you might be asking the wrong p...

I think that that's more consistent with how people are feeling in the general population. and i think the question is, do we want a government that is on the side of helping people help themselves? or do we want a philosophy which the national republican party has been pushing anyway, which says that everybody's on his or her own? i think at the end of the day, the american people are going to choose a partnership with leadership in the form of president obama, which is about helping people help themselves. and the jobs bill is just the most recent. and i think very important -- >> what is he...

Before. and one reporter says that is your strategy from 2004 going after the suburbs that have popped up, the communities that were not in the map, is the president stealing a play from the karl rove play become. >>guest: that article gets some things right and some wrong. the president is going after latinos and that could be, i hate to say i am associated with american cross roads and we spent $20 million in advertising during the debt ceiling vote and a key component was reaching into the hispanic vote with english language and spanish language ads and the democrats went nuts spending imme...

>> absolutely. and democrats have never marched behind this president. this is the same problem the president had on health care where his instincts were more progressive but he had this firewall of conservative democrats, and joe lieberman saying we're not doing the public option. even when you look at the stimulus, you always had pushback from within the democratic party on more progressive things the president wanted to do. closing gitmo. that was democrats who sided with republicans, trying ksm, in the u.s. that was democrats again who undermined the president sort of progressive instinks ...

>> so the national democratic party is also getting in the fight. organizing for america, a remnant of the obama 2008 campaign. >> right, ran to the party. >> paul: the party is getting in and what's the calculation here for the national party? >> don't forget, president obama himself called this an assault on unions and what he's telling us with this, he is owned by the unions. this is not an act of leadership, this is loyalties with the unions and got out the vote for him and in 2008. >> paul: whoa, whoa, you're saying he felt obliged he couldn't dodge the fight? presidents can't get into ea...