about before, chris, you had kennedy s false missile gap. you had lbj s daisy ad. you had george w. bush in 2004 using national security. in 2012 barack obama is using a very successful operation a year ago. this has been going on for over 200 years. it is an great shock. but i think on the positive side, the troops needed to see their commander-in-chief today. i think it is a very good thing they got to do that. let me go back it chuck. i think there a difference and you can agree that if you exploit you what are doing or lying, here he is explaining. there is no doubt he want to continue the role in afghanistan. he will take the heat for that, from all across the political spectrum because the i see him being quite authentic and saying, i m not one of the cut and run people.
about before, chris, you had kennedy s false missile gap. you had lbj s daze daisy ad. you had george w. bush in 2004 using national security. in 2012 barack obama is using a very successful operation a year ago. this has been going on for over 200 years. it is an great shock. but i think on the positive side, the troops needed to see their commandener chief today. i think it is a very good thing they got to do that. let me go back it chuck. i think there a difference and you can agree that if you exploit you what are doing or lying, here he is explaining. there is no doubt he want to continue the role in afghanistan. he will take the heat for that, from all across the political spectrum because the i see him being quite authentic and saying, i m not one of the cut
are. the president would say nation building at home more than in places like afghanistan and iraq. and then i think some of the merits, whether it s russia or the others, we need to work with them on some of these issues, like it or not. we have to work with them on places like iran. we can t do it all by ourselves. it s not clear to me either in the foreign policy case or the political case how there s that much space here for republican challenger to come at it in that way. there s a tradition in american politics you blast the sitting president s foreign policy, or at least the administration. kennedy did it in 1960 with basically made up a missile gap out of thin air. and of course, i remember bill clinton in 1992 going after george hw bush for coddling the buchers of beijing. and by the time he was sworn in, bill clinton had a very open relationship with china. but here it just doesn t seem to make political sense. because like you said, the
i have talked to republicans who were concerned about mitt romney s tack right now because in all actuality, just like the missile gap in 1960, there s not a lot of space between barack obama and mitt romney s position on iran. i think you would be a better candidate. i have been saying that for months and i m dead serious about it. chafs exceptional about what you just said. i really do appreciate working with this guy. he s a smart guy. this guy. have you seen the movie yet, joe? i saw it last night. i was joking this morning that we got a bootleg from canal street. it is an incredible movie. and you know, i know smith. and i was actually impressed by smith s character in the middle. woody haroldson, you forget that you re looking at woody haroldson. it s incredible. that s exactly my reaction.
about a missile gap that wasn t there. there wasn t space between nixon and kennedy on the missile issues. it s the same thing in 2012. there s really no space between what mitt romney has said he wants president obama to do and president obama is actually doi doing. what mitt romney is depending on right now, relying on, and i think it s a very dangerous thing for him to do given the state of international relations in the the middle east right now in this particular moment with iran. but he s going back to some preconceptions that some americans and conservatives had based on what president obama said in 2008. where he was naive about how you address iran. and in 2009 where he did wait too long to criticize the brutal crackdown in the streets of tehran. but three years later, this president has self-corrected.