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years. can the democrats make an effective case for four more years in white the white house? the author of the best-selling book, aaron klein joins us. he is the author of fool me twice. glad blakeman joining us as well. nancy pelosi stands idly by. all of that here tonight and more. one of the most important questions facing voters this year is has the president delivered on his promises to the american people. president obama himself refusing to give his performance on the economy a letter grade. as the national debt today hits $16 trillion. the president, settling instead for incomplete. the third time in as many years that he is offered that assessment. and a serious change in tone from four years ago when senator obama told voters that he knew he had only one term to turn things around. one nice thing about the situation i find myself in is that i will be held accountable. i have for years. a year from now come i think people are going to see that we are starting to
years. can the democrats make an effective case for four more years in white the white house? the author of the best-selling book, aaron klein joins us. he is the author of fool me twice. glad blakeman joining us as well. nancy pelosi stands idly by. all of that here tonight and more. one of the most important questions facing voters this year is has the president delivered on his promises to the american people. president obama himself refusing to give his performance on the economy a letter grade. as the national debt today hits $16 trillion. the president, settling instead for incomplete. the third time in as many years that he is offered that assessment. and a serious change in tone from four years ago when senator obama told voters that he knew he had only one term to turn things around. one nice thing about the situation i find myself in is that i will be held accountable. i have for years. a year from now come i think people are going to see that we are starting to
i also in 1980 had a rather surreal experience which was, i played ronald reagan end the practice debates for president carter before the debate. i ll explain later why this was an uncomfortable experience. not because it might to play reagan, but because you might think it is a professor s dream says a, you have not done well here with you only get a b plus there. why is the economy in the tank. it is, in fact, very disconcerting to foster the president. [laughter] and everything i saw at the time i thought was idiosyncratic of hamilton or the carter team or ms. rose will or the president. and over the years i realized that there was a strange discomfort of the president in the debate practice repeated it with every president. finally understanding that, understanding what it what is different about being a president was part of finally being able to put the pieces together and write a book about campaigns and candid it s, not about how did this one when i lose, but what
this is just over an hour. [applause] thank you. there is nothing probably worse than adding to your own resume. but it is a very important addition to what we are saying. the most passionate, the most interesting learning times i had were in 1976 and 1988 during the carter campaign, where i was in the pit at cambridge survey research running all the analysis that john gorman, and the partner pack udell was on the plane and working with the speechwriters. and a lot of my job was to coordinate between stu eisenstadt and the policy people. the speechwriters while everyone else was running around. i also had a rather s real expense in 1980, because i helped practice the debates before the real debates. i will explain later why this was an uncomfortable experience. not because who am i to play reagan, but because you might think it is a dream to grade the president, to tell him why is the economy in the tank, it is in fact very disconcerting to cluster the president. [laughte