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Seat to the barack obama presidency and as bret said, vouching for the commander in chief's character. >> on the medicare point, there will be a lot of push-back on the specific points. throughout the speech, there were a couple of straw men set up when the vice-president said it has never, ever, ever been a good bet to bet against the american people. i don't think many people think other people is betting against the american people. but he fired up the crowd. he is better than most at getting the base really excited. >> showed could see with him. he teared up a couple of times. he paid a ni...

Phone. washington was so into it, she created so many straw men it was a fire hazard. there is nobody trying to do any of those things. nobody is trying to take away the birth control or right to vote. >> dana: i was thinking what does it she mean taking away the right to vote? i suppose if she was illegal immigrant voting illegally and there was a voter i.d. law, maybe -- >> bob: that is what she is talking about. >> dana: but she is not an illegal immigrant. no one taking away her right to vote. >> eric: woman's right to vote. >> dana: you say that women should haven't the right to vote. >> ...

Street. really? who? how? the speech was filled with these references to republican opponents but in the contempt of some kind of straw man build up a false image whof you're running against then smash it down and declare yourself the victor f you're not with him, who are you? you're with lobbyists and special interests. and can't he have respect people can have an honest disagreement with him? these straw men were unbecoming and in the independent voters have been hearing this four months, five months since the end of the republican primary z they haven't been impressed with it which is why t...

Responses, he followed that play book almost perfectly. we saw some faux outrage about how deeply disturbed he was and upset and then set up a series of straw men, suggested i said he worked at goldman sachs, which i never said. it's very disappointing instead of engaging these very important issues, which have not resolved, we'll create another financial cries, possibly worse than what we saw in 2008, we saw this juvenile misleading. it's very disappointing. >> so how could things have been done differently? what should have been done to make sure that these billions and billions of dollars t...

Political gain. >> i tried to avoid personal attacks on the path. the path is getting some very bad advice from his campaign team because he's diminishing the presidency by picking fake fights, going after straw men every day. we have the buffet rule. it went on for months. even the president admitted it was a gimmick. martha: that's what john boehner had to say. monica of crowley joins me now, kirsten powers. very interesting that he deflected from going directly after the president by saying i kind of feel bad for him because his campaign advisers are leading them count wrong path. and i thi...