what role does bill clinton play if hillary clinton is on the main stage? the assumption is he will be behind the scenes with mark pen and the inner circle. if you look at bill clinton during hillary clinton s tenure of secretary of state, he was incredibly hands off and sort of let her do her thing. right, but he s still this huge presence. no one can command a room like bill clinton. he was the star of the democratic convention. his speech was better received than barack obama s. they both need each other. they both can use each other. obama could use clinton more to win over democrats in congress, perhaps, or win over the base that has been, you know, disillusioned with him recently. and absolutely, as richard said, clinton is going to need obama s base and going to need obama s donors especially, a lot of whom did not go with clinton, turned on clinton in the primary, which was seen as a big betrayal. he s going to need them to come around to hillary if and when she runs in 2016.
beads with something converted to date rape drug when they put the beads in their mouths and ended up in comas? even the aqua dots people called burson-marsteller. when evil needs public relations, evil has them on speed dial. that s why it was so creepy when hillary clinton had mark pen, ceo of bur son marsteller. and now following this great bipartisan disgusting tradition, mitt romney does not hire burson-marsteller, he hires these who cleaned up bp to look better after this. in order to try to make him look better after bain. it s disgusting.
minority. at the polls, it doesn t work out that way. three of those points came over the over 300,000 crowd. he has to bring people together. the decisive strategy doesn t work. moving to the center, isolating the republicans as being against medicare, medicare, education and the environment that is the strategy that worked. not for being for trillions of dollars in tax increases. it seems he has been the middle of the road, he has gotten stuck. the people don t like him being wishy wishy. one is negotiating, one is is messaging. mark conceded, most polls show you, 60 to 70%, if you talk about his approach to balancing the budget with a combination of cuts, and some revenue increases. there is a negotiating stance.
is doing you are saying to do, make the republicans cut the programs, social security, medicare, and medicaid, doing what you want the without your rhetoric? that message doesn t he should never have accepted the rhetoric of the debt ceiling in the first place. are you saying he is talking- talking about going back to the clinton era level of taxation. mark pen was advising this is what he is talking about. it is it is not about the policies. what is the message that american public is hearing? they are hearing he is for trillions in tax increases. going into the election with a
welcome back to hardball. we have mark pen here. he is a former white house advisor in the administration. you re the president and you ve had to buckle to only cuts in domestic programs? that you treasure as a democrat? no increases of taxes, even for the very wealthy. and just put up with this, playing in the other guy s sand box for weeks now. how do you win on that one? well, it s a mess right now. when you look at the president s numbers, they ve been sinking. he s got to come out with a win here. and a win for him frankly is a deal in which the budget is cut, in which taxes are not part of it, and he gets it out of the election season. if he does that, then the deficit issue is behind him until the election and he can go on to what s right and wrong for the country.