no acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character or eclipse the light of the values that we stand for. today we mourn for more americans who represent the very best of the united states of america. we will not waiver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act. and make no mistake, justice will be done. you can count on 3-2-1 until the right starts saying that the tape has been doctored and the transcript has been forged from a fax machine in hawaii. mitt romney getting it wrong last night because he apashtly consumes the right wing version of reality instead of the real reality. that was the story of the night when he face planted on that story. just a shocking face plant by an excitable candidate who decided to take a leaping round house punch while his opponent was
george w. bush did hint at that, but he did not go as far as mitt romney did, which is to put the guy responsible for the kill medicare budget on the ticket as his vice presidential nominee. think about that as a political point. the fact check just twists the knife further, for romney it just makes it worse. all the promises you say differentiate yourself from bush are things that bush promised too. and the president points out, all the places that you say you are actually worse, all the places where you are actually worse than bush on social policy. but then the second day story is that, actual, bush is even worse than we remember him being on social policy and romney turns out to be worse even then that. so if you are among the roughly 3,000% of american who is do not remember the bush/cheney years fondly, then what happened last night, in terms of knitting mitt romney to george w. bush, in ways that he self-inflicted, and ways that were further inflicted upon him by the president w
reform. he didn t call for self-deportation. george bush never suggested that we eliminate funding for planned parenthood. so, there are differences between governor romney and george bush, but they re not on economic policy. in some ways, he s gone to a more extreme place when it comes to social policy. and i think that s a mistake. any further discussion, gentleman? no. from there, they moved on. the george w. bush question, settled. for undecided voters, who very reasonably might be worrying about putting another republican in the white house, since the last guy was george w. bush, this is what was ringing in your years last night if you ve ever thought about that problem. and actually, in terms of the day two coverage, or even the late, late night coverage after the debate wrapped up last night, in terms of fact checking that whole exchange, george w. bush did hint at privatizing medicare, which the president referenced there.
his jobs plan doesn t create jobs. his deficit reduction plan adds to the deficit. so iowa, you know, everybody here has heard of the new deal. you ve heard of the fair deal. you ve heard of the square deal. mitt romney s trying to sell you a sketchy deal. i just think that the american people had expected that the president of the united states would be able to describe what he s going to do in the next four years, but he can t. he can t even explain what he s done in the last four years. i mean, he spends most of his time trying to talking about how my plan won t work. well, what about his plan? that s president barack obama in iowa and mitt romney in virginia at campaign rallies today, continuing the fight from last night or trying to. joining us tonight is dan rather, the host of dan rather
after last night s debate, after what was, i think, a pretty clear win for president obama, what seems to worry the romney campaign the most is the mien that sprung from mr. romney s weird reference towards binders full of women. i went to a number of women s groups and said, can you help us find folks, and they brought us whole binders full of women. so as the obama campaign launched a website at bindersfullofwomen.com and texts from hillary, lol, to the very idea that mitt romney was still using binders and there was the facebook page and there was the video game that i m not really sure how you win, but it works kind of like the atari game kaboom, and lfs the twitter feed for mr. romney tease binders. of course, as all of that was happening last night and today, the romney campaign fired up their patented mien doubling machine. they tried to make it seem like president obama was the one with the big, embarrassing binder