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Morning tonight is a big night nor president obama. he will try to recapture some of the magic four years ago. david axelrod said there will be new elements in the speech but the president's basic argument will remain the same. joining me democratic strategist and former top adviser to vice president al gore, mike feldman, msnbc contributor and managing editor of postpolitics.com, the fix man, chris, and president of the center for american progress. a few clasp here. >> what's that? >> all right. >> [ inaudible ]. >> let me ask you this. you're the policy person here on this table. how much p...

Richard nixon was an beacon. george walker herbert bush was capable but no one swooned. you remember the vision thing. steve will probably remember this. >> he definitely does. >> the vision deficit and thousand point of light we used to joke about it. and george, you know, george w. bush still couldn't put three sent e7bss together in the 2000 campaign and wasn't very articulate. aep al gore who didn't know who he was and constantly trying to reinvent himself, he won the popular vote even though he didn't win the election. plenty for not the most engaging inspirational candidate winning the b...

Made a political, purely political calculation in picking paul ryan because if he was making a purely political calculation, he probably goes with portman and pawlenty. >> right. this was the vision thing. >> and this was -- i'm convinced it's a gut thing. paul ryan is who mitt romney wants to have people see him as. sort of the view that people in the conservative media world have of ryan, this sort of lionization they have, that's what mitt romney believes he is and that he sees, he would like that definition and if that's what it takes to sort of refocus the spotlight on him in a way, then ...

and blackberries. and what are they thinking? ultra marathon, 135 miles long in death valley. it is being called the world's toughest footrace. runners starting right now on a two-day run through hell. the average temperature in death valley, 116 degrees. not a crash but tacks, of all things, slowing down the tour de france. someone threw tacks on the road in front of the cyclists. who does had a? "newsroom" begins right now. good monday morning to you. i'm carol costello. thank you so much for being here with us this morning. the battle over bain, taxes, outsourcing and whether pr...

Presidency. and in many ways people thought he was the great communicator. that was one of the reasons he was so inspiring because he was such a great communicator. but you have had democrats criticize him saying he has failed in many ways to sell some of these policies, to tell a story about health care, to tell a story about the economy. and so interesting that he's admitting that failure on his part. and i think they're looking for this election and this campaign to really sort of fine tune what their message is. fine tune the vision thing. fine tune their story and vision for this country....