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My deep conviction that we're greater together than we are on our own. i believe this country succeeds when everyone gets a fair shot, when everyone does their fair share. when everyone plays by the same rules. these aren't democratic values or republican values. these aren't 1% values or 99% values. they're american values. and we have to reclaim them. >> the president today harking back to that 2004 awesome god in the blue states, one united states of america speech which put him on the national map for the first time in that summer convention speech when john kerry was being nominated.

Finally, which gop candidate comes to fimind when is comes t waffling on issues? mitt romney maybe? back in 2004 romney was going after a democratic candidate for, get this, flip-flopping. here's what he said about john kerry back in 2004. let's listen. >> when you're running for office, you look at your opponent's record, you find someplace where he or she has changed position and say they're a flip-flopper and that's a pretty standard thing. but in this case, this guy really is. i won't go through that whole list but it's just extraordinary. i've tried to think why it is that he has changed ...

Our own. i believe this country succeeds when everyone gets a fair shot, when everyone does their fair share. when everyone plays by the same rules. these aren't democratic values or republican values. these aren't 1% values or 99% values. they're american values. and we have to reclaim them. >> the president today harking back to that 2004 awesome god in the blue states, one united states of america speech which put him on the national map for the first time in that summer convention speech when john kerry was being nominated. president obama in giving the speech today and probably providing ...

But a lot of it was something that we'd heard before. again, he's wrapping himself obviously in the mantle of a republican president, though i'm not quite sure that roosevelt was really a republican at that time. but, you know, this is something that we've seen from this president before. he will please his base in a lot of ways but in some ways we're past the point of big speeches and it's time for this president to do something. i thought he was great out on the stump when he was able to do something and talk about these executive actions that he was making around student loans and around mo...

Share. when everyone plays by the same rules. these aren't democratic values or republican values. these aren't 1% values or 99% values. they're american values. and we have to reclaim them. >> welcome back to "hardball." today president obama gave a hint, as you just heard, of the framing of his 2012 election message. it's about fairness, as you just heard, and obama's location was the same kansas town where republican president theodore roosevelt delivered his new nationalism speech, in which he called for increased corporate regulations and federal help for the poor and middle class. can pr...