at the second debate this week mr. romney went out of his way to make himself sound like he hasn t taken the position that he really has actually taken. i don t believe employers should tell someone whether they could have contraceptive care or not. every woman in america should have access to contraceptives. actually when you say i don t believe that, you totally do believe that. you do. you do. listen, i got to ask you here about there s a washington post has got a blog out here saying jim heath, a reporter for a tv station in ohio, just tweeted a remarkable piece of news. mitt romney told him he does not support the blunt amendment that would empower employers and insurers to provide health coverage they find morally objectionable. what happened here? i didn t understand his question. of course i support the blunt amendment. i thought it was talking about some state law that prevented people from getting contraception. so i was simply, i misunderstood the question an
0 to see michelle obama out on the campaign trail. this is mrs. obama today speaking at a campaign rally in racine, wisconsin. there were something like 2,500 people, capacity crowd crammed in to see mrs. obama. we know it was a capacity crowd because there was also a line of people several blocks long outside who were trying to get in to see her but who could not get into the room. so when president obama says people are sometimes disappointed that they do not get michelle, i don t know about people s comparative feelings about seeing the two of them, but the first lady is a very, very effective campaigner on her husband s behalf. as she showed today in wisconsin. at the al smith dinner, though, the bookend pair of jokes told by both candidates that was even a weirder pair than the sort of mismatch between those two mentions of michelle obama last night, the even weirder bookend pair of jokes told by both candidates was the bookend pair of jokes told about the governor of new york sta
0 ed has the life, man. all right. i want to thank you for staying with us this hour. happy friday. when republican presidential nominee mitt romney at last night s al smith dinner made one 9/11 veterans in in chicago on december 15th. welcome home. the pentagon for reasons that i do not start to understand still of his jokes about president says they do not want new york city to hold a parade. obama, that was also sort of an and new york did throw one implicitly a shot at the first lady. one of the interesting things is ticker tape parade this year, the first lady, herself, was not in the room. mr. romney was there with his wife, ann romney, but the president was there without the first lady. michelle obama was not in the for the super bowl champion new york giants, and their parade, room. we met the willis family. i think that is what made mr. romney s joke more awkward than they brought with them a picture, glenda s son, a huge it otherwise might have been. giants fan. campaigns c
of his remarks to say very nice things, very nice and serious things about the whole obama family. that sort of softened the blow there a little bit. michelle obama was also the subject of a self-deprecatie ii joke from president obama, himself. tomorrow it s back to campaigning. i ve been to cities and towns across our great country, and i hear the same everywhere i go. honestly, we were hoping to see michelle. that was not president obama s funniest joke of the night, but it turns out that what he said there is actually kind of true. at least the underlying point of it, which is that people apparently really, really like to see michelle obama out on the campaign trail. this is mrs. obama today speaking at a campaign rally in racine, wisconsin. there were something like 2,500 people, capacity crowd crammed in to see mrs. obama. we know it was a capacity crowd because there was also a line of people several blocks long outside who were trying to get into see her but who c
something involving real substance and difference between the two candidates. president obama is hitting this issue hard in recent days, in one case taking his opponents words out of context, mitt romney seems to be trying to downplay lis differences with the president. some of what he is saying about abortion is contradicted by statements he has made in the past contradicting promises made before that. take a look at this exchange at tuesday s debate. a major difference in this campaign is that governor romney feels comfortable having politicians in washington decide the health care choices that women are making. i just note that i don t believe the bureaucrats in washington should tell someone whether they can use contraceptives or not and i don t believe employers should tell someone whether they should have contraceptives or not. he strongly supported federal legislation to restrict access to birth control and restated that when it briefly came into question. jim