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Simple. as my colleague on the democratic side, james carville said in the '91 recession, it's the economy, stupid, and basically, look it, you can have a foreign policy success, we're all happy that usama bin laden is dead, but the american people right now are concerned about gas prices, unemployment, and the economy. either that turns around and strength strengthens the obama presidency going into the november election. certainly no success like the killing of bin laden is going to change that. now, i think the bigger problem is who's going to get the nomination on the republican side. that...

Efforts to fight terror as one people. not as democrats, not as republicans, but as americans. >> patty ann: nancy, we do have some high profile leaders on both sides saying speed it up. senator dick lugar of indiana, top republican on the senate foreign relations committee saying, quote, it is exceedingly difficult to conclude that our vast expenditures in afghanistan represent a rational allocation of our military and financial assets. and on the other side, the democratic side, carl levin of michigan, he chairs the senate armed services committee saying, bin laden's death contributes to the...

Was there any part of him progressive? he doesn't seem -- progressives on the republican side go out and do war but war as americans, led by americans. roosevelt where the progressives on the democratic side go out and do war under an international umbrella. was he progressive at all? not just on war? i would say he was liberal in the classical sense, standing up for the individual. >> libertarian. >> liberal in the european sense which is standing up for women, women got the vote around then and he was a big fan of women. he appointed women but not as a group, as individuals. like blacks are ...

Avoid. was he progressive at all? was there any part of him progressive? he doesn't seem -- progressives on the republican side go out and do war but war as americans, led by americans. roosevelt where the progressives on the democratic side go out and do war under an international umbrella. was he progressive at all? not just on war? i would say he was liberal in the classical sense, standing up for the individual. >> libertarian. >> liberal in the european sense which is standing up for women, women got the vote around then and he was a big fan of women. he appointed women but not as a group...

Low in a long, long time. so this isn't working. but it may help him in alabama. i would tell you that i think it was offset today by the civil rights museum and the kind of effort now that is being made on the doug jones democratic side in alabama to get the black vote out. the visit by the president i think accentuated perhaps unfairly to him but accentuated the divisions from white and black in alabama and may help the turn jouts fout for thedo d. >> it's a bit of a litmus test and david brooks penned an op-ed titled gop is rots beiting and writes the republican party is doing harm to every...