Move forward. here s what it is. how does the president clarify his position on jobs? ron, last thought? by marrying his rhetoric to policies. fine to say we have to focus on job, fine to pivot to jobs as everybody was saying in the last week, what are you going to do about jobs? clear contrast. clear choice. if he doesn t make the choice in the contrast clear the republicans will do it for him, and they ll do it in a way that muddies the water. heed he s got to lay down his principles and marry them to policies. i say bring up a jobs program, make the republicans vote against it. i bet you that buckle this time. thank you, susan age and ron reagan. up next, after the all the turmoil on wall street which continued today, is it time for panic? steve colbert is funny if you want comic relief from a difficult week on wall street which we ve all had. you re watching hardball only on msnbc.
Any of gold old-fashioned democratic politics here. your dad, president reagan i used to say working on the opposition for tip o neill, i always said every cab driver in washington, every cab driver, regular guy or woman knows where that guy stands. he wants to beat the communist, reduce the size of government by cutting taxes. they all got it. they didn t agree with it in a lot of cases but they got it. people come up to me now years later say, you know, i didn t agree with your father on much, but you no what? when he said something you knew he meant it. you knew where he stood. people don t vote for the most reasonable guy in the room. they vote for the guy they respect, or woman, they respect. and you earn respect by taking a stand. by making it clear what you re all about. and barack obama just needs to do a better job of that. yeah. we had a presidential candidate from illinois many years ago when i was growing up who spoke very well. and lost twice. a smart guy.
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We need have the best and brightest in education and what we ve seen in the last few months is an assault on teachers and an assault on social worse workers and so many public workers. people need to understand that that s our middle class. that s those are the people who do so much for us, we need to value them. and i liked it when they went in and first thing, go after teachers, firefighters. seemed to me, why do they go after you folks right away? why the teach firefighters, nurses? why are they the targets of these republican governors? what s that about? why you three? you know, yeah. i mean, it just seems that it s hitting worker against worker saying one worker has taken everything away. we haven t taken it away from them yet. let s go after them. a very mean-spirited way to try to grow jobs and the economy, what they ran on. i don t think that s been their agenda at all. so extreme what they ve been doing since january they lost sight of what we need to do in our state. w
Companies and eliminating jobs. romney s camp fired back saying it is disgraceful president obama launched his campaign with a stapted goal to kill his opponent with an onslaught. president obama will say and do desperate things to hold on to power because he knows he has failed. joining me, david, thank for joining us and steve, always pretty good reporting by politico. talked to a dozen people in the obama inner circle who say mitt romney is weird. why that word, weird? well, it s pseudoto the whole mormonism issue. that s clear. i m surprised they re bricking it in early but kraeting a narrative early enough for romney to get pegged this way. we knew it would happen if