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system. that s not an exaggeration, and it s frightening prospect in 2012. no doubt. finally go ahead, ezra. one thing i would add to that, though, because people look at elections over linearly. the obama campaign will end up having a lot of money. a couple of months ago they re the first to get near a billion bucks or a5 hundred million. they re going to get there. the obama campaign will have a lot. you hit a saturation point. you hit a point where every voter in every swing state sees these ads 10, 20, 30, 50 times a week. the amount of real sort of increemental value out of there backs less so. the other point we should make here is obama has come out for a constitutional amendment to get money out of politics or limit campaig campaigns. it does represent a new sort of a new way to square the circle. on the one hand i have to
finally go ahead, ezra. one thing i would add to that, though, because people look at elections over linearly. the obama campaign will end up having a lot of money. a couple of months ago they re the first to get near a billion bucks or a5 hundred million. they re going to get there. the obama campaign will have a lot. you hit a saturation point. you hit a point where every voter in every swing state sees these ads 10, 20, 30, 50 times a week. the amount of real sort of increemental value out of there backs less so. the other point we should make here is obama has come out for a constitutional amendment to get money out of politics or limit campaigns. it does represent a new sort of a new way to square the circle. on the one hand i have to recognize the system is what it is, and i have to participate in it. on the other hand, i m willing to sort r consider fairly extreme remedies to get the money out of politics once and
come back from the brings and keeps score and does things big and never forget has slight. i like his remarkable penchant for buying real estate at just the right time and becoming a one-man brand that has stood the test of time. i like his digging when others aring. ing. i like when he was buying up buildings and downtown manhattan through and after 9-11. no one else was. i like how one of those buildings has soared half a billion bucks in value in a little more than a few years because he did. and how his florida real estate holdings never got caught up in the meltdown there because where he bought did not. i like how years back when new york city politicians couldn t get a simple ice skating rink built, he took things into his own hands and built it himself. i like how he came up with a show about business novices, plucked from obscurity and made them household names in a matter of episodes. i like how he took pride in a city others disdained and spoke bluntly in support of capitali
corzine can t account for more than a billion bucks of his customers money. that s not stopping him from going back into business. telling the wall street journal corzine is looking for office space in a small brokerage firm around the corner from the new york stock exchange. how does that happen? brian? please don t make me answer that question, gretch, because i don t know. all eyes on the republican primary race, who s watching president obama in the meantime? is he getting a pass on some of his policies that can be deemed failures or at the very least controversial? let s ask our washington insiders. we have a white house correspondent for talk news radio service, victoria jones. welcome, victoria and susan. good morning, susan, the chief congressional correspondent with the washington examiner. susan, to you. is president obama getting a pass? well, i think part of the issue is congress is not in session. they will be back on january 17th and then we re going to be taking u