of this kind of rhetoric in the next six weeks in interesting the president noted early voting begins in 15 days in ohio on october 2nd. is that part of the core economic choice. the thing with governor romney s policies they re not new, they re recycled. $5 trillion tax cuts for the wealthiest paid for by the middle class. we passed those tax cuts in 2001 and 2003, lead to the slowest pace of job creation since world war ii. as a financial house of cards that collapsed in 2008. you ll be hearing about it from us in the days ahead. heather, in terms of economic specifics, the president mentioned middle class tax cuts $3600 they ve gotten, that is not something the broad swath of the american voting public understands. the rhetoric out there or the mean is that president obama has raised taxes. what does the white house need to do to further that message, get it cemented in the american
than about mitt romney at that convention. what happened here was, the field for the primaries was so pathetic and weak, with so many troubled characters against romney, that romney never really had to try very hard in the process and he got to the presidential election and he faces off against a president who s not only specific in detail, but very competitive, with a very aggressive team and he s floundering all over the place. so what happened was i think he got lulled into a false sense of security and then suddenly found himself in the presidential race, there are no details, no policies. ed gillespie says they re going to talk about specifics what specifics? there aren t any specifics. and keep in mind, heather, you know better than anybody, president obama has owned the narrative around romney s policy in the way that the romney campaign they have no ownership over the policies they theoretically have put out there, which is to say the ryan budget. i guess the question is,
record. this is somebody who is a corporate buyout specialist, invested in companies that were pioneers in outsourcing. there s a video that s been circulating on-line of governor romney talking about work conditions at a plant owned by a company called global tech. which had guard towers and bausched wires, keeping workers in. 12 women per dorm room working in this facility and what governor romney doesn t say in the video is that bain then pursued an investment in this company, in this plant. he s profited off of these companies in china and he s enabled companies to create those jobs in china instead of in the united states. ben, your boss, the president, of course, is speaking right now at his campaign event in cincinnati. let s take a quick listen. you know, each side has been able to make its case. they had their thing in tampa. we had our thing in charlotte. now just 15 days from now, ohio
they couldn t imagine a better president in their dreams than he s been and that s in part why he s taken the mantle away from the republicans in terms of the earn that americans most trust when it comes to foreign policy. that said, i agree with a lot of what s been said, i think this is a wild card for both camps and in that regard it s too early to say who it s going to benefit. if it continues to get worse, it provides an opportunity for romney who desperately needs an opportunity of any kind to change the conversation and to change the public perception. can he do it? doubtful. based on his prior performance in this area. and obama is masterful in this area. you would think, you know, the point goes to obama if it gets worse. but romney just needs anything at this point. something, comma, anything exclamation point. we have to wrap this but nic had it the best when he said romney touches foreign policy he breaks things. it is not a good shop for him to be in if you will. no.
president win in the last four years. what the obama campaign has said we ll do that then and took the convention and said let s have a talk about the auto bailout. those same things when mitt romney said let s let detroit go bankrupt, have a conversation about the auto bailout, about foreign policy and now that obama administration has not run from their record which was the assumption, which would be done, now the republicans are left flat footed wow, he has some answers and they then do not have answers to those. in fact, we did build it. we re also learning something through this process about romney as a manager and leader he was a turn around specialist is a myth. we ran a series of stories a couple weeks ago showing what romney did at bain wasn t turn around companies, he didn t even care about turning around the companies. what he did was go in and suck value out of the companies before they collapsed and he got his money whether they collapsed or not. he doesn t have exper