a shockingly small role in this campaign. we talked about afghanistan a little bit but not even that much given the fact that there isn t an ongoing war are there but there is very little conversation in this. as we move into the general election which we are, i think we are probably going to hear more from the romney campaign on what he thinks the administration should be doing and there is a big opening here for him, i think. i would not be surprised at all if he sort of follows the lead here of senator mccain who was very aggressive this morning on your air calling it a feckless policy, a feckless administration. they are spending monday campaigning together. governor romney and mccain. i think it will play more of a role here in the end. what is happening in egypt is a great example. a year ago it looked like the revolution was a good thing but now the hope for any type of a middle ground is not necessarily there. it is a wore arery for this administration but i think an opening fo
what they are worried about is since he has come out of the gate we have had a week of discussion about contraception. a week of discussion about student loans and now the hard and heavy hit on mitt romney. the question is how do they define themselves? this election is going to be about jobs and there is a worry among democrats he is rushing to all the different subjects and not saying chris: i m struck by that, too. seems to be precious little conversation by the president about one, what he has accomplished in his four years in office and two a kind of understandable plan for what he wants to do over the next four years. they understand that this is a referendum on him and they are trying to make it into a referendum on romney because the economy is not doing as well as they would like it to be. the polls are showing he is struggling with white working class voters and so what they want to do is convince people that romney does not have the experience to create jobs.
romney and bain capital as class warfare at its worst. we had our researchers look at what you were saying against mitt romney when you were running against him and you said this about romney. he managed companies and he bought and sold and sometimes people lost their jobs. and your campaign manager saided this about bain. you go and buy companies, you you strip away the jobs and resell them. weren t youen gaging in the same kind of class war fare are. first of all, i don t speak for my campaign manager he speaks for himself. this is the free enterprise system. the only place in the world where i can recall that companies never sail is the old soviet union. this is what investors do in the free enterprise and capitalist system. when you take $5 million in a warehouse and you end up with staples i would argue that is what it is all about. yes, free enterprise system can be cruel but the problem with this administration is that small businesses are the ones
backs unmistakable. chris: there is a narrative that the between the blowback of bain and the fact that the president has gone so negative and personal on romney so early that he stumbled out of the gate. do you buy that? it is too early to know. the reality is the obama campaign always planned to use the two months of the summer, may june and july to try to define mitt romney. we are not sure if it is being successful or not. the rollout of bain capital was really nothing short of a disaster for them and they had a lot of time to do this. at least in the eastern sort of atlantic coastal region. chris: like the governor of pennsylvania and the mayor of newark had their own ties to private equity. all democrats, right. what matters is how they is internalized by voters in ohio and wisconsin and michigan. it is far too early to say that the president s campaign has
campaign. chris: i hate to be so cynical about this. where are the votes on foreign policy. is this country so war weary, the obama campaign certainly seems to think that getting out of iraq and getting out of afghanistan and staying on the sidelines in syria is where the public sentiment is. they are probably right on that and there is a weariness in terms of spending and other things. is one of the other reasons it is hard to even imagine four years after 2008 when mccain was the nominee and eight years after 2004 when national security sort of the policy against democrats was the central scene republicans now are just as eager to sort of end the war in afghanistan and spending and things. i do think there haven t votes specifically on foreign policy but it becomes a leadership issue and is going to behoove governor romney to start talking about this. he understands these issues, he is a very smart guy. it is not going to be the central issue, the chi is.