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Back to the attack on the other side. a big part of what we will hear this week and central argument you will hear from many of the speakers, certainly from bill clinton, all the republicans want to do is take us back to the policies that got us in this mess before. a lot wrong with that argument perhaps but i think it is perhaps an effective argument and one that the republicans have not yet found a way really to counter. >> chris: is hope and change and the promise of denver of 2008 dead? >> i don't think so but i think it will be a different convention obviously. obama already is talking ab...

That they felt that was a burden on them because if you are going to ask people to make the big switch to the party that they just voted out of power a few years ago you have to believe that that party and the country can turn this all around. >> chris: i want to go back jeff to something that you brought up in the last segment and i will tell you that we had an argument about this during the commercial that is what we do during commercials and that is that friday the jobs report comes out for august and this is one -- the second-to-last report that we are going to get on the state of the econ...

>> chris: president obama at a campaign stop saturday offering his review of the republican convention. it is time for our sunday group, brit hume, fox news senior political analyst. kirsten powers. bill kristol from the weekly standard and jeff zelany from the new york times. the big challenge this week may not be how he compares to mitt romney in tampa but as i suggested to david axelrod, how he compares to barack obama in 2008. is that possible? >> this will be a very different kind of convention. i'm sure an attempt to have some uplift and sense of hope for the future. the president is bur...

There are slight leads in the battleground states. we expected a close race and we are doing everything that we can to make our chase t case te american people and charlotte is a big part of that. >> chris: thanks for talking with us and we will see you on the campaign trail. >> look forward to it. look forward to it. >> chris: up next, the chairman of the democratic convention, los angeles mayor antonio villaraigosa. we'll be right back from

Economy forward, for how to lift the middle class. in that sense i think his convention was a terrible failure. he never talked about the principal planks of his own plan and talked about his $5 trillion tax cuts skewed to the wealthy and never talked about turning medicare into a voucher pro gram. there is so many things that he didn't talk about and people walked away the voters trying to decide and said what alternative exactly is he offering. >> chris: but you keep talking about romney. i would like to talk about the obama record and i want to put some statistics up on the screen. unemploy...