lower than the national average. so when you really start looking into it, you know, is it really a jobs tour or is it campaigning for that s a great point. bottom line is he s the president and the presidents always have home field advantage, right, when you re running against an incumbent president, that s one of the advantages. that s true, it s the advantage but who is paying for the advantage? to me, the president has earned so much money with his fundraising, he s going to make a billion dollars this year. why doesn t he write the check and eliminate the controversy and go to martha s vineyard? because the p.r. perception of going out and campaigning right now hasn t been taken well by the american public. that s the other reason why. they don t they don t want to appear as if they re campaigning during this whole debt crisis. other thing would be don t. don t go. i mean, that would be another thing if you re worried about appearances. all right. let s do a couple o
happy birthday. sweet, right? except elvis was born in january. he died on this day on august 16th, 1977. plus, check this out. the group swarms into a maryland convenience store and robs it in a stunning blur. it is the latest example of crime by flash mob. and we ll talk live tonight to the police chief now hoping the same tools used to organize the outrages help him round up the thiefs. let s begin, though, in iowa, center stage in american politics at the moment. president obama is there and he sat down today with cnn s wolf blitzer. on the critical issue of jobs the president complained the partisan gridlock here in washington is blocking progress, but he also conceded his re-election is at risk if things don t get better soon. ultimately the buck stops with me. i m going to be accountable. i think people understand that a lot of these problems were decades in the making. people understand that this financial crisis was the worst since the great depression, but u
romney served one term as governor, perry is in his third. that s what this is about. i m running for office because i believe that having spent my life in the private sector meaning in business, that i understand what it takes to get business going again. and perry s rebuttal? give him my love. and claim to have the job creation bragging rights. 40% of all the jobs created in america from june of 2009 until the present were created in texas. i know how to create jobs. a packed hour ahead, including putting that claim from governor perry to the truth test and showing you how the early 2012 map is so different from 2008. here to get us started are jessica yellin. and from austin texas tonight, mr. herman. to you first, my friend. governor perry is in the race. president obama is in the midwest. they re in the same state of iowa. suddenly today we have a campaign of contrast? yes. it took a while for him to say it officially. you saw it officially saturday in sout
call or click today. with ub e with unemt employment at 9%, obama has boarded the bus and embarked on a jobs tour. our biggest challenge right now is putting these people to work and getting the economy growing as rapidly as it needs to grow. it has been growing. we have been able to reverse the recession, and we have added over 2 million jobs in the private sector over the last 17 months. [ applause ] but we are not growing it as fast as we need to, to drive down the unemployment rate in a significant way and give people confidence. and well, i don t know. i can t get excited about this and i know it is what everybody is saying they want from obama and passion and steel and campaign fire, and he is giving them some of that.
i m running for office because i believe that having spent my life in the private sector, meaning in business, that i understand what it takes to get business going again. and perry s rebuttal? well, part texas macho. give him my love. and part acclaim to have the job creation bragging rights. 40% of all the jobs created in america from june of 2009 until the present were created in texas. i know how to create jobs. a compact hour ahead including putting governor perry to the truth test and showing you how the 2012 map is so very different from 2008. here is jessica yellin. in austin, ken herman of the austin american statesman. governor perry is in the race. president obama is in the midwest. they re in the same state of iowa. perry was here this morning, obama s there now. suddenly today we have a campaign of contrasts. yeah, it s amazing it seems to have come upon us so quickly. many of us in texas expect head would run governor perry, i m speaking of. but