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>> it's want surprising to me that he went to the talking points for the dnc on mitt romney. clearly the obama campaign is worried about him most. listen, these candidates need to be better about this. in this day and age where there are gotcha moments and every word and every sentence are going to be dissected by the media, they've just got to be better about it. i can tell you as former campaign staff, it drives campaign staff crazy when some of these candidates talk too much or get off message. rick santorum doesn't have a speechwriter. he prides himself on that. this is the problem you run...

Been every bit as grueling as running for president. >> you were heavily criticized about the president growing up in kenya. you clarified that. >> that was a brain slip. i specifically know he spent part of his childhood in i wantednesia. his father and brand father were kenyan. >> then there was the natalie portman incident where hollywood is saying you attacked natalie portman. i want to get to the bigger picture here. you and i talked about this a couple times. you said one of the problems that's running for president is you spends so much time defending yourself you don't get to tell the ...

The best and brightest. there's a lot of unemployment out there and a lot of young politicians who have -- and are looking for a chance to be able to represent this country. i think it's a great opportunity to, you know, make sure that we select the best. >> victor, is this the ultimate diversion, the inconsequential things in a very consequential time. >> i don't think we're going to see it because this is between that comment and today, we have the clinger speech by the president, reverend wright. we have the typical white person and then during the presidency, we have the cowards outburst b...

Approximate perino or tony snow at the podium. >> greta: but gibbs is more flippant personality. that would be consistent with his personality, i mean, tony was -- and -- he wouldn't. >> right. this is also the white house podium. i think that's what the folks were critical of, saying, why stoop to that level, to engage in kind of the cheap hit, gotcha stuff, when there is other stuff out there? >> greta: i got a lot of email. pem thought i was nasty and cheap t. seemed like a joke that he thought was clever and fell flat. >> it's silly. i don't think it's serious. the white house has other th...

Going to ask ourselves the really tough questions. >> yes. exactly. >> and are we going to seek answers to the!beally tough questions or just plow around the base of the mountain of this business? i think those of the important things. >> do you have faith the campaign either through the process of journalists covering the campaign, interviewing these candidates or debates and the way they go on. do you have faith the campaign process can do that hard work? got the gotcha stuff but the real hard work? >> i do not have faith. i have hope. hope springs eternal to use the cliche. i don't have hop...