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Better off than you were four years ago, the answer is yes. the economy is not falling off a cliff. we're not losing 800,000 jobs a month. we're actually gaining them, albeit in smaller numbers than you'd like. the stock market has rebounded from its lows. there are lots of things that are better than they were four years ago. but the administration is taking this tentative approach, because of all the polling and the focus grouping and everything else. i suspect if president bush had tried that approach in 2004, he'd have seemed a lot weaker against john kerry. >> let's listen to a worry of j...

The stock market has rebounded from its lows. there are lots of things that are better than they were four years ago. but the administration is taking this tentative approach, because of all the polling and the focus grouping and everything else. i suspect if president bush had tried that approach in 2004, he'd have seemed a lot weaker against john kerry. >> let's listen to a worry of james carville's that's been getting a lot of attention. let's listen to. >> i'm worried that when the white house or the campaign talks about the progress that's being made, people take that as a signal that the...

We'll get a news conference. the white house has put out the news conference will be about the economy. no doubt that is where the president would like to keep this focus this morning so he can win points in that regard. you know the questions are all over the map, right? >>ter but the president is probably going to push his new point, congress is stopping him from doing some things about the economy right now. so his latest ad has been an attack on congress, not really on mitt romney but not on congress for not passing a number of measures the president said would help create jobs right now. ...

Business. >> hey, tom, you must be the thinnest skinned guy in america. because you think that's a confrontational tone, then, you know, you should really see me when i'm pissed. >> you've got to explain this. and i'm going to be humble for five minutes. you're the pros. >> he's from jersey, don't forget that. >> why do people love, at least this week, this guy and the way he talks. most people on local television say, you're always right. he's saying to the public, basically, you're part of the problem. >> i think a lot of people are offended and sick and tired of all the political correctnes...

Unfocused group phrase, right? a phrase that did not survive focus grouping. it's not that he said something that sounded provocative, sounded off message. the problem is that corporations are people, my friend, it hits a nerve. and it's a basic reason why, that corporations are not people and sometimes corporations are a lot more powerful than people and that can be a problem when corporate interests are the opposite of people's interests. this is not an obscure idea. this is not even a controversial idea. it is absolutely in some company's business to do mining and drilling in the cheapest w...