good as it can get. part of it is show biz. we know the party faithful is here but it s february, 2009. i think with matt lauer president obama said he s going to do this in three years. now, president clinton saying i couldn t have done it in this term z an issue for president ob yaum why? or not? does president clinton lift him out that have problem? i think he s recasting terms of the debate trying to set the obama economy aside saying this is the clinton economy. and that is very telling. the first image we saw is with the man who built the bridge to the 21 century 16 years ago. he needed to reach back given personal history and complicated history but doi think it was very effective talking about this dream economy. a lot of policy. bill clinton draws the crowd into it. clinton s job was to bring
saying i won. critical question is whether in doing business with the other party you re going to compromise to give them something attracting their votes. it doesn t matter as much whether the president is a good scmoozer or socializer. if he gives members of the other party pieces of the legislation that they like it makes it harder for them to move against the unfinished product. a fair argument could be made on major pieces of legislation, stimulus bill which is a principal effort on the economy and interest there is health care reform bill as well he gave them very little to attract them. and for the health care and for student loans he didn t need them. well, well, there is a condition they re in now. if you pass a major piece of social legislation that changes everything and you do
president obama s alienating people with his arrogance saying they vote them early on saying elections have consequence and i won. if this and that is what what we ve heard from terms of cooperation. that will be an important question in this election. president obama has low ratings on the big issue. the economy. he s blaming a lot of it on republicans. it s part of the article of faith among democrats that this president was obstructed at every turn by republican who s made up their minds in the beginning of quoting mitch mcconnell and they weren t going work with them. and going to try to block everything he did. there is another side of the argument to get the comments that bob wood ward that he didn t offer them very much. in other words when you look at the stimulus bill or health care reform bill there weren t a lot of ideas in there atracking republican vos so
these moms like no other politician out there. you know like he s president again. to a certain keg he was asked to do this for the party so he did the right thing for the party. it s interesting to see whether people bump up president obama polls from this point forward or whether people look at that speech and say, i vote for him again. but i m not sure about the guy who currently has the job. the economy was better when he was in office. it s interesting to see what polls show incoming days. i don t expect the polls are going get a bounce on. there is in part because they have their established numbers someone says i was undecided and now i m going vote or i ve changed my mind that. is what the pump you re talking about. and i can t see where these undecideds are. and if they re watching or this is the point they re going make the decision. there is another thoing
voters down from this expectation level they had in 2008 i twont a provide focus group a couple days ago. after listening to these dispatted people who had voted for obama in 2008 he said ob yaum is not being judge bid what he s done by what he promised he would do. and this is flip side, if you zront a job, you still don t have a job. and that is drk you can t be dazzled into feeling good about it. you can t talk up a economy when people feel it is not moving. do you buy they re embracing and it s been 30 seconds but it s been a frosty relationship. right. everyone know that s but it looked good. it was a symbolic picture of unity and team spirit. crowd loved it and went nuts. on the record live coverage