declare barack obama at fault. and now they want to prevent women, and it s not just women, it s about families, when you ve got the breadwinner or co-breadwinner in a family making 23% less than a man doing the same job. this affects her retirement. it affects the family income. this is a serious economic issue, and they chose to vote no. and, of course, getting a straight answer out of mitt romney, as you know, is like trying to catch a mosquito by the river. he says he s for equal pay but he can t say if he supports this legislation. he s speaking at this moment in texas where he has a huge banner reading putting jobs first, but i guess he can t confess to holing a particular position unless he s told what that position is by the party, is that right? i think he was told what the position is. they were against it, and so mitt romney simply hid under his desk. he could have very easily, if he s really for equal pay, made
washington, d.c. we re also joined in the studio here in new york by ari of the nation magazine and david corn is still with us. the hardest working man on television live from washington. david you can t get rid of me. we don t want to. we just heard bill clinton point out how they lacked the decency to rebuke. he remains the most suggestible politician in the country. are you asking me? yes, i am, corn, i am. you know, george romney was a moderate republican who showed a lot of guts in 1964 when he walked out of the republican convention because he disagreed he had an honest policy agreement with barry goldwater on civil rights legislation. can anyone imagine even with the use of drugs mitt romney doing anything like that? just taking a stand. probably didn t help george
integrity of his individual identity has political consequences because he s raising questions not only about barack obama the man, he s raising questions about whether he s fit enough to serve in office. and if you bring together the personal prejudices of the worst of your base along with questions about politics, they have a negative effect net, and i think that in that sense this is why it s very important for the obama campaign to stay on message and to continue to hammer away at the weaknesses of mr. romney because even a weak economy may not be enough to keep mitt romney out because he s not proved that he s capable of addressing something on such a grand scale and to constantly talk about what he s done with bain capital and private equity is quite different than what you can do with the government, but i think they have to stay on that message. professor michael eric dyson, ari melber, and dave corn. coming up, mitt romney s blind trust problem. stay with us. any investmen
surprise. and, of course, you say potato, i say potato, but that s hardly helped dan quayle who never quite lived down his spelling mistake. so in the name of discipline, the romney campaign has a job posted this very moment. the title copywriter. we can only assume the job starts as soon as possible. the day s top lines are coming up. we got a couple of americans back here? wisconsin. from wisconsin? go packers. big recall election going on. absolutely. i don t know if i can say who i m going for go ahead. tom barrett. we love tom barrett. there you go. matt and meredith, from the land of cheese to the land of royal cheese, back to you. let me go out i got a blister in the sun [ kimi ] atti and i had always called oregon home. until i got a job in the big apple. adjusting to city life was hard for me.
to the gut of al qaeda. they say al-libi had such high duties it will be difficult to replace him. they see this as a real setback, a degradation of al qaeda. it adds more pressure to the current leader of al qaeda to try to do some of those day-to-day activity that you talked about. the white house has been saying for a long time that al qaeda is knocked on its heels. they say this is one more step in the completion of ruling out al qaeda. they won t give us specifics of how this occurred, they won t tell us if any civilians were killed in this strike at any point in time, but they re stressing the fact this is a real blow to the terrorist organization, martin. so many people, including mitt romney, cast aspersions to the foreign policy given effects, and this al qaeda official was instrumental in