the and that s exactly the kind of debate the american people deserve. jake taft. mr. president, um, a couple questions. one, i m wondering if you could comment on the recent spate of [inaudible] in afghanistan, what is being done about it, why? do your commanders tell you they think there has been an uptick in this kind of violence, and, second, with the economy still the focus of so many americans, what they can expect out of washington, if anything, when it comes to any attempt to bring some more economic growth to the country. um, on afghanistan, obviously, we ve been watching with deep concern the so-called green on blue attacks where you have afghan individuals, some of whom are actually enrolled in the afghan military, some in some cases dressing up as afghan military or police attacking coalition forces, including our
considerable change from the hope and change promised four years ago and suggests that another point that the president s re-election efforts seem more motivated by, quote, his dislike of romney than by those themes of hope and change. now, we are expecting the white house press secretary, jay carney, to take questions on this during today s white house press briefing. we will bring it to you if there is white house reaction. in the meantime, we re joined by chris stirewalt, host of power play on foxnews.com. all we ve seen so far, chris, is the the politico writeup, but the author, glenn thrush. we asked around about him because if you read the political write-up of the book, it sounds like he s not a fan of president obama s, although that wasn t what we were told, that is not how it seems i don t know what the truth is about mr. thrush. is this a big hit piece, or is this an objective piece of journalism? definitely not a hit piece, and thrush is known for his deep
all the negative attacks we have seen on governor romney, calling them necessary which is a considerable change from the hope and change promised four years ago and suggests that another point that the president s re-election efforts seem more motivated by, quote, his dislike of romney than by those themes of hope and change. now, we are expecting the white house press secretary, jay carney, to take questions on this during today s white house press briefing. we will bring it to you if there is white house reaction. in the meantime, we re joined by chris stirewalt, host of power play on foxnews.com. all we ve seen so far, chris, is the the politico writeup, but the author, glenn thrush. we asked around about him because if you read the political write-up of the book, it sounds like he s not a fan of president obama s, although that wasn t what we were told, that is not how it seems i don t know what the truth is about mr. thrush. is this a big hit piece, or is this an o