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the washington post, it s a pretty good breakdown, she asked a great question, why don t they call the romney campaign and ask them to fill in the details other than make up assumptions? he comes out saying the president is lying without giving specifics. we re in the middle of a campaign. you re supposed to exaggerate. if the original campaign was hope and change, the four years later it s character assassination and class warfare, how successful was the first term? i m just the moderator on this program. all we re asking for is his taxes and the details on his tax plan. how are you supposed to call the romney campaign for details when they say they re going to release details later? that would make it tough to get the details now. and the other thing, this is turning rather silly. president obama sings, governor romney sings. they have a sing-off. it s sort of like turning into one of those desperate bad reality dating shows like you make out with him in a hot tub. i m goin
are not doing anything to weaken the work requirement, much less gut welfare reform. why would he rope bill clinton into this? because clinton is right in the ad. he s trying to drive a wedge between clinton and obama, to say to a certain kind of voter who likes clinton, clinton wasn t as liberal as obama is. the problem is, you know, as politicians used to say, there s not a dime s worth of difference between bill clinton and barack obama on the issues. but it s important to the romney campaign to make it seem like barack obama is this wild-eyed lefty who wants to end welfare reform and put everybody back on the dole. problem, as i said, is it just ain t so. romney s been criticized by members of his own party for creating the car ownership program while he was governor of massachusetts. will this welfare ad backfire on him? you know, it s a little hard
thinking that the obama campaign wants to disenfranchise soldiers from voting. here s the candidate himself. any effort to impede the right of our military members overseas or here domestically in voting would be an extraordinary violation of the trust that we should have for those who serve so valiantly. can i call time-out for a moment? think about this. mitt romney and the romney campaign, the candidate himself, is claiming that president obama, the president of the united states, any president of the united states, would be trying to disenfranchise people who put on the uniform to defend this country, do months of deployments around the world, ah, president obama really doesn t want them to have the chance to early vote. are you kidding me? and here is the crux of the story that i just cannot believe. there are 15 military groups, including amvets, that have intervened in the campaign s lawsuit because they re with mitt romney. efforts to facilitate and
would be surprised to see that the legislation he and republicans agreed upon to put work into welfare is now going to be waived, that work requirement, by virtue of a president who has a very different view about welfare than i think bill clinton and republicans did sen years ago. romney is either lying or he s misinformed. former president bill clinton is not surprised at all. a spokesman said president obama n s new policy is consistent with policies enacted in the 90s. looks like mitt romney got it all wrong again. joining me tonight is jonathan alter, msnbc political analyst and columnist for bloomberg view. great to have you with us. why is the romney campaign telling one lie after another? i mean, just ran a story last night and tonight on the ohio voting. and now this. what s going on here? well, they are starting to