dancing with local farmers in malawi. another leg of clinton s african tour brought her to johannesburg yesterday where clinton attended a reception hosted by south africa s foreign minister. what can i say? clinton will have visited seven african nations in all. i think she likes it out there on the road. footbally, check out this photo of mitt romney at a factory in chicago just yesterday. in a bizarre trick of photography perspective, it looks like that factory employee is biting mitt romney s fingernails. new york magazine jumped in way potential captain. whoa there, you re trimming my fingernails with your teeth. hey there, that s okay. you re a hard-working american. thanks, friend. anyway, it s entirely possible romney might actually have been saying that.
policy when you get down to it. the real underlying problem is there aren t jobs for people to go from welfare to work right now. not in nevada and not you re waiting in line, the welfare check, your relief check, we used to call it, and you ve got to say, okay, where would you go for that? what subway ride do i take for that one? exactly. you have to demonstrate that you re looking for work, but you re not finding work. you re not going to find a job these days. unemployment. you ve got to look at too. 1996, you re talking about an unemployment rate, what, 4%? it was a lot easier to find a job then. and let s remember, bill clinton wasn t in favor of welfare reform at first. he rejected the first couple efforts by the republican congress and then final li came to the table, cut a deal, spoke softly about that deal. so this is not necessarily something democrats loved in the first place. they certainly don t like the way it s working out. look what bill s done. by the way,
the big dog as we call him? eugene vobs a pulitzer prize-winning columnist for the washington post and an msnbc analyst. and jonathan allen is a columnist for politico. gentlemen, i guess there s a strategy here in the tactic. bill clinton is not playing ball with these guys. i think clinton wants obama re-elected for a lot of reasons especially for the possibility his wife may become president some day. he sees no gain in a loss. there s absolutely nothing in it for bill clinton for barack obama to lose. therefore, this is not going to drive a wedge between barack obama and bill clinton. clinton came out immediately denouncing the ad, explaining that it s all wrong. and i think this will fire him up. i mean, you don t want to wake up the big dog. you don t want to mess with bill. so i don t get it. i mean, i don t get it as a tactic. this is what you want if you re bill clinton. dick nixon was nowhere in 1966, or whatever it was. johnson attacked him. called him a chronic campai
my wife s involved with that down there. he does good things. and i think he s going to say, look, you know, whatever you think about barack obama, this guy romney is not it. i would like to see him give the keynote address in charlotte. that would be a barn burner. who did joe biden from the vice president s spot for bill clinton. he s the big dog. he s elvis. he s bubba. he s everything. anyway, thank you, gene robinson, and thank you, jonathan allen. when we return let me finish with the bind mitt romney finds himself in. he doesn t know who he s supposed to be. this is confusing. this is a revolting development for this guy, what happened with his spokesman saying he s really for health care. you re watching hardball, the place for politics. age these da. but where s the relationship status? well, esurance is now in a relationship.with allstate. and it looks pretty serious. esurance. click or call.
can say this guy s nothing like bill clinton they can take them strip away from clinton voters. that s right. they re not attacking bill clinton at all. they see 66%. they know what hillary clinton is polling. they want to associate themselves with bill clinton. what happens if bill clinton stands up on the platform in the burbs around lansdowne, what happens if he s in bucks county a week before the election standing next to obama? does that kill their plan? i don t know if it kills their plan, but you know this. you re from pennsylvania. pennsylvania is not very much in play for the republicans this year as it has been the previous years. i just think because of this ditzy thing they re doing with photo i.d.s i m worried. that s the only wild card. but look, bill clinton, i think, is going to play a bigger role than he might have played if they hadn t done this ad, frankly. i think it brings him out. if bill clinton was going out and giving speeches for money, he wouldn