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Congressional level they are on both sides of the aisle. there are people with mediocre performance skills, but it's popular -- you side barack obama in the closing leg of this campaign giving a master class on how he did in. it's clear that if you saw inflation roaring back in the evening after labor day, democrats didn't have a strong defensive argument on the economy, and i would say it's also important to have an offensive argument, and the -- things that were popular, generally popular, you're not going to be able to pare in this environment. if you don't have an economic message to go al...

Close attention two years ago, it's very much an echo of president obama's major vision for the country, is it not? >> no question about it. it's been his vision really throughout the time he's been in public life. i remember interviewing president obama about income inequality in the fall of 2007. what he was doing in this speech is making a broad argument for government action across the board, not just on things like the minimum wage, but also domestic investments and infrastructure and education, job training. also his health care law. he's always seen the aforfordab care act as one elemen...

Bush? >> not so much. but i saw the same dynamic in 2004. probl president bush had not been debating in the primaries. thought he knew all the issues. he's dealing with them every day. didn't know how to frame the attack, frame the defense and he didn't do that well in his first debate with john kerry. i think exactly the same thing here. with obama sitting in those meetings saying i know this stuff, i deal with it all the time, but he hadn't been forced in a debate setting to say these are the offensive argument, defensive arguments these are the three points i want to make and i think that w...