program but endorsed iran going forward with its nuclear program. crickets out of the white house. instead we get articles like this how good he is is at cooking chili. jim, you have a very short memory, my friend. because remember how many stories we saw about the kinds of jellybeans that president reagan liked? or i remember hillary clinton one time she mentioned she liked bananas, everywhere she went for a year, all they had was bananas. this is very common with presidents. it is very common among presidents. jean healy wrote a book called the cult of the presidency. all this adulation. most of the stuff for reagan i was there for that. they weren t praising reagan for jellybeans. they were using jellybeans what a irrelevant personal person was. they savage nancy reagan wearing a red dress. whether negative or positive it is unhealthy fixation on
very high, 9.6% compared with the national average of 8.3%. gas prices about $3.80 in north carolina, and when you look at the history of presidential visits, mr. obama was last there on april 24th. mitt romney s been there three times, last time was august 15th. both states i m sorry, both campaigns fighting very hard over north carolina. the president won it last time by about 14,000 votes over john mccain. governor romney thinks he can take it this time. let s talk about it with jim more el, a political reporter for the charlotte observer. i read a piece that you wrote for your paper, jim, in which you discussed the latest poll results, and they seemed to indicate that in north carolina at least mitt romney got something of a bump from the republican convention. yeah, thanks, jon. there was a university poll that came out today previewed yesterday that showed romney up
if the president has a choice talking about his personality and pool game versus talking about his record on the economy and foreign policy he will take the former and the new york times knows it. that s why they did it. i was one of the state breakfast and one the labor leaders went through the talking points the president will be talking about thursday night. jim to your disappointment he will talk about his economic record. and i think that he is going to talk about the changes he has made. change and hope, remember those two words, jim? i do remember those. again the times is talking about this, not 8.3% unemployment. obviously obama will give his own best spin what happened when he speaks thursday night. meanwhile the press can be counted on not to take him apart in any serious way. jon: it has been pointed out in the press the president has not had time to meet with jobs panel but he had time to play golf. the article points out, that someone dealing with the world s weight