the out this week and said, look, you want another europe happening in the u.s.? go with the republicans. those are the policies that are going to create the crisis that you see in europe over here. president obama was asked a similar question. asked specifically about president clinton s positions on it. sort of a convoluted if not not an incorrect or factually inaccurate answer but didn t have the same sort of it was did not have that clintonian sound bite magic. take a listen. if you are engaging in too much austerity too quickly and that unemployment rate goes up to 20% or 25%, then that actually makes it harder to then pay off your debts, and the markets, by the way, respond when they see this kind of downward spiral happening. they start making a calculation, well if you re not growing at
why he left, a soldier who signed up, who was made this sacrifice, it would be a great thing for the country to put efforts in to trying to get this kid home. and lower level exchanges are going on. you talk a little about it in the article. that s something american people aren t aware. we re swapping prisoners all the time. releasing afghan prisoners all the time. doing these sorts of deals all the time. the difference, such a high profile. has his publicity helped his case? bet iroff? more likely getting him back now that it s gone public or not? either way is a risk. a risk his parents weighed. bringing attention to the cause, do you get it on the white house radar as a high priority, on the state department s radar? on the pentagon s rathdar? it s risky. your son is still captured. the government seemed to decide now it wasn t the government it s not a story. look, this is not a story the
engineering [ bleep ] i make a mistake i want to share with the american neem was mistake. that waep way question have an honest conversation. including the current spending level. i m very sorry about what happened yesterday. i don t think i should have to say bad things about governor romney personally to disa agree with him politically. newt gingrich and bill clinton. two men from two parties who seem to have cart blanche when they go off script, or do catherine? i love talking about bill clinton. i miss him. it s great to be able to talk about bill clinton again. a lot of debate how much he s helping team obama and how much he s hurting team obama. certainly with white working class voters, he can exit a way nobody else does. on the bain stuff and bush tax cut stuff, two big weapons in
not just a matter of appearances. a huge impact on exports and growth the next several months and obama s re-election that way. also a policy disagreement between austerity and spending, not sure how much that plays into the american election, how much american voters care or understand. but i think obama is trying to use europe as a case study why he didn t choose austerity. germany is taking the austerity position. that s the powerhouse over there. that s where we want the strength to be, and yet the policy position is the antithesis of what obama has been saying, spo it really give him a difficult arm to straddle. big government, the nanny state has created this. justin, i wonder, from your perspective, in terms of, you know, how the president deals with that, and how he tackled it in the press conference, former president clinton sort of wait
josh, are you not allowed to say the word head winds? is this taboo to acknowledge what we ve gone through? not until now. republicans have a talent for taking things democrats say and making them into bad words. head swinds just a kind of political jargon shorthand for all sorts of problems slowing down the economy. things that are difficult to explain. as we saw from obama in the press conference today. no distrop justin. he sounded like an economics professor, sitting there, not a president campaigning for re-election. that s a bit of a problem. head winds is a way to boil down complicated ideas into something that s palatable in a ten-second sound bite and an attack ad. fair enough. we ve had all of this discussion what the root of the economic problems in europe are. it s hard to package that in an ad let aflown a press conference or vice versa. coming up, loose lips sink ships. a recent spate of national intelligence leaks, will it affect the national security about rat i