Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110923:04:24:00
Tendency in commentary in politics to be what we call in economics pro-cyclical. which is when the president is doing poorly everyone rushes to talk about how he's terrible and listless and has no leadership qualities and the ron suskind book comes out saying the same, and then everyone piles on and you forget, you get this weird induced amnesia. it's an extremely deft, confident politician. and the cycle gets this internal logic, and everyone's like what's happened to -- he's right there. that is a very good, able, amazingly powerful politician. and i think in some ways he has been not using ...