ultimately deciding not to act. in ukraine, very measured, a couple hundred special forces well, in that case airborne going around the area of ukraine. they were not major steps, you know, it wasn t too combative. he was worried about making the situation worse. and i think you see that same ethos coming through here. it s a dangerous step. it s outside the wire. they do face risk. it s not combat troops, and he s still thinking about airstrikes. but it s continuing this pass of a very measured force, fitting under that umbrella of obama s, you know, as many of his advisers were describing it a couple weeks ago, don t do dumb stuff, right? they have real hesitation to apply force in places where they think they might make it worse. gloria, talk about, if you would, the politics here, president obama, one of his signature campaign pledges, getting troops out of iraq. as colonel francona just pointed out, he is, assuming this plan is announced, he s about to send troops back in. s
he s very persuasive. i thing i love is he s not persuasive about the dumb stuff. he doesn t comment on dumb stuff. these hearings have elevated him. you hear him grilling hill spree brennan. you don t think being bob, s rock star regardless of his ethnicity. eric, let me ask you about the choice to give the republican response. it s always let me tell you, that s not aonian signment assignment that you want. the minority party never wants to have to give that response. remember the bobby jindal speech? well crafted speech, not that great a delivery. paul ryan speech, well crafted, but it s always difficult. this could be different. so he s going to deliver the response and i believe it s going to be in both english and spanish. yes. mistake? no, go ahead. i think it s great idea. clearly the republican party has to embrace hispanics. they have to embrace women. marco rubio is front and center,
he s very persuasive. i thing i love is he s not persuasive about the dumb stuff. he doesn t comment on dumb stuff. these hearings have elevated him. you hear him grilling hill spree brennan. you don t think being bob, s rock star regardless of his ethnicity. eric, let me ask you about the choice to give the republican response. it s always let me tell you, that s not aonian signment assignment that you want. the minority party never wants to have to give that response. remember the bobby jindal speech? well crafted speech, not that great a delivery. paul ryan speech, well crafted, but it s always difficult. this could be different. so he s going to deliver the response and i believe it s going to be in both english and spanish. yes. mistake? no, go ahead. i think it s great idea. clearly the republican party has to embrace hispanics. they have to embrace women. marco rubio is front and center, ted cruz also, another senator
he cares for the middle class i do too. let s listen to what peggy noonan had to say about romney s possibilities. i think he has a chance to no not likability and all that dumb stuff. he happens to be on stage with a guy who has been the president.
let s listen to what peggy noonan had to say about romney s possibilities. let s listen to what peggy noonan had to say about romney s possibilities. i think he has a chance to no not likability and all that dumb stuff. he happens to be on stage with a guy who has been the president. with the president s lead with likability, you can t dismiss librariability. where would president obama be in the polls today? stewart, first of all, i talked not long ago to stewart stephens.