amnesty and raising taxes. that s not really a swing voter speech, is it? no. the first part of it was. if you are for obama it was a trust vote undecided voters. laura: give me another four more years. great to see you ladies, thanks so much. directly ahead some hollywood liberals stoop to the politics of fear at the dnc? we will take a look at that situation. later up, we have rounded up the convention winners and losers. we will have the list in just a few minutes. [ male announcer ] how could a luminous protein in jellyfish, impact life expectancy in the u.s., real estate in hong kong, and the optics industry in germany? at t. rowe price, we understand the connections of a complex, global economy. it s just one reaso over 70% of our mutual funds
create to put americans back to work. for every net new job created, about four people dropped out of the workforce, so, we re going in the wrong direction. this is a very difficult time for the american people. joining us now to react from new york is david callahan, a senior fellow at a progressive organization and here in washington former economic advisor to president george w. bush douglas holts eakin. okay, gentlemen, look, we had 368,000 people leave the job force. that was the number. but the bureau of labor statistics has its way of calculating the jobless rate that minimizes it, i think, doug, because it goes down to 8.1%. people think wow that s progress. tell us what it really represents. ignore the drop from 8.3 to 8.1. this is unrelentingly bad report. we had 368,000 people give up looking for joonget they re not unemployed they disappear from the statistic. inside that it s even worse.
with us, i m laura ingraham for bill o reilly. in the fridays with geraldo segment tonight, convention floor chaos at the dnc. in case you missed it, things got out of hand a little bit for the dems when they attempted a voice vote to amend their party platform to include language that would refer to god, get it back into the platform and jerusalem. all of those delegates in favor say aye. aye. all those delegates opposed e say no. no. i will do that one more time. all those delegates in favor say aye. aye. all those delegates opposed say no. no. in the opinion of the chair two thirds have voted in the affirmative, the motion is adopted and the platform has been amended as shown on the screen. [crowd boos and applause] thank you very much. laura: i can still hear the boos coming from the
there was just a big report the other day that came out which suggested that many of the new jobs being created are these low wage jobs. and actually we saw that during the bush years as well. a lot of low wage jobs are being produced by our economy even in good times. and my concern is, you know, just looking beyond who is to blame game here is these are economy and fundamental ways where, you know, a lot of the good jobs are going overseas. a lot of the jobs that are created are these low wage jobs that don t have benefits. and, you know, my fear is that neither political party is addressing this sort of fundamental problem, which is we have a changed economy. we need deep investments and the sort of fundamentals of prosperity. infrastructure, science, things like that. obama talked about that in his convention address. laura: when you say investment, this drives me crazy. investment means what? it means federal spending. and when we just added a trillion plus to the u.s. debt in t
do that he has to make it between mitt romney the man and obama mat man. the vision thing is secondary. much more favorable playing field if it s about the personality. cool celebrities, a really cool wife. she has great arms. really cool jobs report coming out this morning. that makes it much more difficult for him. what worries me if this election is are you letter better off than four years ago obama is trying to make that argument. democrats are confused about what their answer is, obama tried to make the case you are better off the question is who is going to make you better off four years from now. i don t think either candidate has fully made that argument to the person american people which is why i think this election is a toss-up. laura: julia, can you close it out for us. what from