it seemed like the congressman was on defense on the issue of taxing the rich. the best he could say listening to him closely was, it won t be enough if you tax the rich to balance the budget. everybody knows that s a ludicrous assessment. the need to tax the rich has a lot to do with basic fairness in our society as well as fiscal balance. well, i think that was among i think joe biden was very strong on all of the talking points and issues that you and i and everybody else said the president didn t hit last week. joe biden hit every one of those marks. in talking to russ, one of the top media advisers for media campaign right after the debatd, he said to me, yeah, joe biden made all the points. he said then he went on to criticize biden s style saying he was too hot, saying he was like al gore, et cetera. when you have one of romney s people conceding that the vice president made his talking points, i think that s significant.
overwhelmingly, almost to the exclusion of anything else, is the economy. that s what even though all the time wasn t about the economy in the debate tonight, that s what s going to have legs. that and cultural issues such as abortion. it seemed like the congressman was on defense on the issue of taxing the rich. the best he could say listening to him closely was, it won t be enough if you tax the rich to balance the budget. everybody knows that s a ludicrous assessment. the need to tax the rich has a lot to do with basic fairness in our society as well as fiscal balance. well, i think that was among i think joe biden was very strong on all of the talking points and issues that you and i and everybody else said the president didn t hit last week. joe biden hit every one of those marks. in talking to russ, one of the top media advisers for media campaign right after the debatd, he said to me, yeah, joe biden made all the points.