yes, the initial responses were on the news, that won t last very long. gloria, look, these are moments and sometimes they re outside and they have a long lasting impact. we think they will. the president has to play consoler and chief. mitt romney and the response to this. you look to presidents to be the national pastor at times like this. i mean, i remember bill clinton for example, oklahoma city and you kind of warm with the president and the president had a campaign event on friday, which he showed up at but didn t talk about politics and mitt romney pulled down on all of his ads. kathleen if the ads are in bad taste now, why are they up at all? that s a good question. it s time for the campaigns to think about they do and the constant negativity. things that are so controversial you have to pull them when something awful happens. maybe that s a way to put that checking process in place before they go on air at all. david, you covered the bigness of the world w
the campaign rhetoric has been. yes, the initial responses were on the news, that won t last very long. gloria, look, these are moments and sometimes they re outside and they have a long lasting impact. we think they will. the president has to play consoler and chief. mitt romney and the response to this. you look to presidents to be the national pastor at times like this. i mean, i remember bill clinton for example, oklahoma city and you kind of warm with the president and the president had a campaign event on friday, which he showed up at but didn t talk about politics and mitt romney pulled down on all of his ads. kathleen if the ads are in bad taste now, why are they up at all? that s a good question. it s time for the campaigns to think about they do and the constant negativity. things that are so controversial you have to pull them when something awful happens. maybe that s a way to put that checking process in place before they go on air at all. david, you co
be a safe choice, no sarah palin this time. any chance that goes safe is an overreaction. the bland leading the bland. i m chuck todd. chris matthews is off this week. welcome to the show. with us today, dan rather, gloria borger, kathleen parker and david ignatius. first up, the tragedy in denver came at the end of a week that was notable for how small and petty the campaign was getting and only seemed to highlight the smallness. dan, look, you have been through a lot of these rodeos. looking back at the last week of politics, it was awful. and then friday happens and all the campaigns started acting responsibly again. but that won t last long. this does perspective, this puts this into perspective. it signals to us once again just how bland and mostly irrelevant the campaign rhetoric has been. yes, the initial responses were on the news, that won t last very long. gloria, look, these are moments and sometimes they re outside and they have a long lasting impact. we think
you know what, kids under 30 don t even know what that means. we got it. and this is actually making coffee. i ve got to say something about jim greer. he s the republican chairman of my home state, florida, and he put out a statement. my republican party, in my home state of florida, put out a statement that barack obama wanted to use this speech where he tells kids, hey, i hope you do well in school, work hard, nose to the grindstone and all that, and they re accusing him of trying to indoctrinate kids into socialism. yeah. here s the deal. we want the president to encourage this sort of thing, and we have enough things to worry about as conservatives, who believe in a small government, to be distracted by these silly little side notes. let s put this up full screen. i know this is unusual. but i m calling on mitt romney, newt gingrich, sarah palin, mike huckabee, anybody else, tim pawlenty, who wants to run for president of the united states as a republican, to tak