was talking all the time about, well, we can reach some kind of accommodation with the republicans. he wasn t putting a lot of his own specific ideas on the table. and he wasn t making an argument. you ve the best esidents know how to make arguments. ronald reagan did it. bill clinton did it. he has finally started to make an argument to the american people, this is what i think. this is what i d like to do. you can agree with it or not, but i m going to try and persuade you that i m right and hey re wrong because i think government does have a role to play in lifting people up. congressman, this is the question i have. it was 20 years ago, big anniversary down in little rock this weekend for president clinton in his first run, you know, they had the big get-together, and when he annoued for the presidency back in 1992, with the idea, look, i got an economic plan, but what i really got is a vision. yeah. this president has had some big swings at economic recovery, and they have
comparison. in fact the president right now is doing better against any republican opponent than he did three or four years ago. i ll argue with that. the model the president wants to get to is win more than two thirds of the latino vote, maybe up to 70%. in this economy like all voters, latinos have worries about the president. most voters want to fire him. the deal is not done from either side. which from the republican point of view is a huge opportunity. they re not worried about the president. they are worried about some of the republicans. on every defeated president, the political tombstone reads, screwed up the economy. let me get one other issue in here. we talk about locking the field down, peggy and e.j. there s still the question about sarah palin because we re going to ask the question about palin until it s absolutely clear she s not in the race. she was on fox news this week and this iwhat she had to say about her decision. through my process of decision making
was talking all the time about, well, we can reach some kind of accommodation with the republicans. he wasn t putting a lot of his own specific ideas on the table. and he wasn t making an argument. you ve the best esidents know how to make arguments. ronald reagan did it. bill clinton did it. he has finally started to make an argument to the american people, this is what i think. this is what i d like to do. you can agree with it or not, but i m going to try and persuade you that i m right and hey re wrong because i think government does have a role to play in lifting people up. congressman, this is the question i have. it was 20 years ago, big anniversary down in little rock this weekend for president clinton in his first run, you know, they had the big get-together, and when he annoued for the presidency back in 1992, with the idea, look, i got an economic plan, but what i really got is a vision. yeah. this president has had some big swings at economic recovery, and they have
in fact the president right now is doing better against any republican opponent than he did three or four years ago. i ll argue with that. the model the president wants to get to is win more than two thirds of the latino vote, maybe up to 70%. in this economy like all voters, latinos have worries about the president. most voters want to fire him. the deal is not done from either side. which from the republican point of view is a huge opportunity. they re not worried about the president. they are worried about some of the republicans. on every defeated president, the political tombstone reads, screwed up the economy. let me get one other issue in here. we talk about locking the field down, peggy and e.j. there s still the question about sarah palin because we re going to ask the question about palin until it s absolutely clear she s not in the race. she was on fox news this week and this iwhat she had to say about her decision. through my process of decision making with my fam
oomz he got in. it hasn t moved out as fast as the obama administration thought it might. so that s a problem. and he knows it. but i think, as i said earlier, that his problem from the day this year began, when the republican congress took over, until very recently, was that he was talking all the time about, well, we can reach some kind of accommodation with the republicans. he wasn t putting a lot of his own specific ideas on the table. and he wasn t making an argument. you ve the best presidents know how to make arguments. ronald reagan did it. bill clinton did it. he has finally started to make an argument to the american people, this is what i think. this is what i d like to do. you can agree with it or not, but i m going to try and persuade you that i m right and they re wrong because i think government does have a role to play in lifting people up. congressman, this is the question i have. it was 20 years ago, big anniversary down in little rock this weekend for president c