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Balanced debate, former advisor to the hillary clinton presidential campaign richard goodstein and the president of media speak strategy, former media advisor to the john mccain presidential campaign. great to see both of you. richard, what does it mean? is the president listening? if you listen to what carville and greenberg are saying, they re really making two points. one is that what the president should be doing from the start is talking about how miserable the economy was that he inherited. that s what they re saying to any audience that will listen to them. the second point they re trying tto say is the president should have pointed the finger more at wall street, that what stuck in the craw of the average voter is that all these bailouts were going on. only people on wall street proceeded to get back to business as usual and get these huge bonuses. it seems like they weren t affected at all of all the country in the people that wr. ....
It irritates people who are out there struggling and feeds this perception that they are out of touch. so for one of the from one of the guys who said it s the economy, stupid, maybe and from one of the guys that said that last year s or the wins in 2008 would create a 40-year democratic majority, yeah. that came from the mouth of james carville. no longer a cat 4. is james carville doing this because this is sort of a secret way to bring the clintons back into the picture? or is he doing this because he sincerely disagrees with president obama? i think from a message standpoint, they re very frustrated because everyone realizing the election is going to be about the economy. when the president has talked about it, people have gotten mad about what he said and now they ve tuned him out. and so you think that maybe the white house has even given up on talking about it as well. carville is one of the guys that has the white house to focus on the oil spill. you would have ....
Waves and also had the press conference. and i think it ended up being one of their worst weeks from a messaging standpoint. last week, they didn t really focus on it except to appoint elizabeth warren to the commission and then on saturday, you had the radio address. these are prime opportunities. prime opportunities for any communicator. and they ended up doing something about citizens united, this is that lawsuit that the supreme court said that corporations aren t barred from spending money on campaigns. to me, that said they are really worried about their left wing coming down to vote in november so they decided not to focus on the economy which is what everybody is telling them to focus on and it s not just republicans or it s not just even colin powell yesterday. even james carville, you know, all the senate democrats, all the house democrats are saying please focus on the economy and they re not. in fact, here s what carville said on the white house strategy. they believe th ....
Trust mitt romney because he is looted and pillaged companies when he was a private equity guy. what carville and greenberg are saying is, drop the emphasis on your performance, mr. president and instead say, look i realize things are really, really tough and here is what i will do in the future to make them less tough. incidentally, mitt romney is out of touch as they tested three different messages the one that carville and greenberg think work best is accuse romney wanting to end medicaid and medicaid and social security. to eliminate teachers, firemen and policemen at the local level and to change, to cut medicaid deeply. i mean you know, there is difference in nuance here but they both have the same message which is, you know, gut romney and try and find some way to explain yourself out of the bad economic condition we re in. jon: the president is supposed to sort of hit the economic reset button ....