distracts, that tears us apart instead of bring us together. because if you don t have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare voters. [cheering] if you don t have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone that people should run from. that s why he s spending these last weeks calling me every name in the book, because that s how you play the game in washington. if you can t beat your opponent s ideas you distort those ideas and maybe make some up. jenna: those are remarks from then candidate obama four years ago suggesting it was not his style or desire in anyway to demon ice his opponent on the campaign trial. he promised a different kind of campaign and different kind of presidency. fast forward to 2012 and the numbers show that the campaign season is becoming even more negative, perhaps than ever before. according to our latest research the obama campaign has run more
appointments of radicals like craig becker to the national relations board from the president? come on. martha: it races a question, bernard whether or not in some ways this kind of dissing doesn t help some democratic candidates out there who will want to push for some new negotiations between unions and the state pension funds that they are beholding to. we ve got to get real here. the fact is the majority of americans actually support unions. a recent fox news poll shows that 60% of americans believe unions are necessary to protect workers. martha: that is a different thing than the numbers that also show that they believe the deals need to be renegotiated, that unions have enjoyed situations that are pulling down the budgets of states all across the nation. those numbers are there too. i agree with that. i think we ll see a lot of situations like the one that developed in massachusetts a few weeks ago where democrats actually led the charge to restructure healthcare costs. the
he is a 46-year-old retired new york corrections officer. he won t talk with authorities in new york or in florida. there were no signs of struggle at the condo. the couple has been together three and a half years. police have no record of domestic altercations. they want to hear from anyone who saw kelly or david perry saturday evening or later. she started at the police academy last november. she had not missed a day of class until monday and classmates as well as others in the area say they are worried, jenna. jenna: a lot more to that story. thank you. jon: there is new information now on the antigovernment proceeprotests that continue in bahrain. there is growing concern in the west iran is using the protests to try to turn the tables on its neighbors as gulf states send in troops to try to stabilize the situation in bahrain hoping military action could help demon ice the west. jerry sibe is the executive editor of the washington wall
that sort of rhetoric has been used by prior presidents, including gop presidents, the democrats are holding this hostage or that hostage. the interesting thing about president obama is when he was running to get this job he said the following. we have a full screen quote of it. he promised to avoid rhetoric like this by saying, what you won t hear from this party is the kind of politics that sees our opponents not as competitors to challenge but as enemies to demon ice, you won t hear that he says from him or from his party and yet he comes out and makes analogies calling them hostage takers and how you don t negotiate with hostage takers and so on, is it the hypocrisy that bother you or the language. reporter: the thing that set them apart during the 2008 campaign was this idea that he was going to unite the country. that he was bi racial. he was going to bring the races and parties together. during his seminal moment on the
sure. megyn: president obama made it clear when he was running it was going to be a different day. he specifically said you could expect the democratic party not to demon ice their opponents. we are prouder americans than we are proud democrats, nonetheless you get ads like most infamous now is the jack conway ad against rand paul. what do you make of it? the president can t control individual candidates gee promised about the party. the party can t control individual candidates. i m governor of pennsylvania and i can t be responsible for controlling everything that every state candidate puts on the air. you can try to set a tone. by the way i think most of these demon icing demon nicing ads don t work. megyn: they get turned out. i hope conway beats paul for other reasons, but i thought the ad was a mistake. megyn: it just turns people off. i don t want to see that, stick to the issues. what we need to prevail in this election is for people to