nothing like the akin business. no. so in a case of unfortunate timing, the latest issue of newsweek features a cover story by have you read this? british historian neil ferguson, hit the road barack why we need a new president. unfortunate timing we ll see how mitt romney handles this. he writes in part this by picking ryan as his running mate romney has given the first real sign that unlike obama, he is a courageous leader who will not duck the challenges america faces. the voters have a stark choice. they can let barack obama s rambling i don t know good word. narrative, so ferguson, continue until they find themselves living in some american version of europe with low growth, high unemployment, even higher debt and real geopolitical decline, or opt for real change. i was a good loser four years ago, but this year, fired up by the rise of ryan, i want badly
picking ryan as his running mate, romney is a courageous leader who will not duck the challenges america faces. the voters now face a stark choice. they can let barack obama s narrative continue until they find themselves living in some version of europe. with low growth, high unemployment and higher debt and real geopolitical decline. i was a good loser four years ago. fired up by the rise of ryan, i want badly to win. ferguson was an adviser to john mccain four years ago. syria s embattled president, bashar al assad stuck his head out finally. assad was seen praying at a mosque beginning of ramadan. it was his first appearance since a bombing killed his defense minister and a deputy. you can hide but you can t run. that s the message from british
statement. the presumptive g.o.p. nominee has used his he selection of paul ryan to cast president obama as a politician who in essence plays dirty pool. barack obama is going to do everything in this power to make this the lowest, meanist, negative campaign in history. this is not going to happen. this will be a campaign about ideas and the future of america. this is the campaign about greatness, about america s future for your children, for the world. mr. president, take your campaign out of the gutter, let s talk about the real issues that america faces [cheers and applause ] congressman ryan will not have the swing state of iowa to himself today. president obama is also campaigning in the state today. martha: james, you have a pride twinkie for us out there okay. you got it. gregg: it s too early to think about that. martha: never too early. gregg: it has been a journey that he calls surreal and now
initiatives, just know while they re sometimes annoying, those letters are helping keep the post office afloat. and if for some reason that $300 million does not come through, things will get worse fast. bill: that s a good point. will congress bail out the post office? is that what s going to happen? reporter: that s what they want. the postal service wants congress to give them the green light finally to stop saturday delivery, and they also want permission to stop prefunding retirement accounts for future employees. one major union is actually blaming congress for all of their problems with the national association of letter carriers complaining that it was congress that in 2006 imposed a burden on the postal service that no other public agency or private company in america faces, the obligation to prefund future retiree health benefits. and congress made this unaffordable by requiring the postal service which doesn t receive a dime of taxpayer money the to prefund 75 years in
we showed a clip of that. that was a moment you made a conscious decision to do that. it was the end of my career in the house. i wanted to leave them with something. one of the things i wanted to leave them with what happens here means a lot but what happens afterwards means more. you share flplatforms like that with people. i don t try to poims my views on anybody. my faith calls me to glorify god in everything we do and bring glory to him in everything we do including to verbalize that and recognize that reality god is real whether people want to admit it or not he s there. we are going to take a break. we will be back. we will continue to marco rubio including his wife who challenged him in a pretty big way. even with all of the challenges america faces, there is still no nation on earth for the brighter with a brighter future. the fundamental source of our greatness remains our people. while the government and leaders may be languishes the american