way, a proposal the democrats had as well as president supported, if you re going to school, you join the military, that you could get on a path to citizenship. now mitt romney has said he would veto that law and back in january, in the fox news debate, january 16th, this was his position on the dream act. i ll show it to you. i think we have to follow the law, and insist that those that have come here illegal ultimately return home, apply, get in line with everyone else. that s not your view? do you wish that romney would change his view about the dream act and immigration generally? mitt romney has said recently, and a short time ago this morning that he s willing to address this issue. but he, and a lot of us, would like to see this addressed in comprehensive immigration reform because we need workers both in the high tech sector and the farming community. we need to address those remaining 10 million people who are here illegally. not just the children of people who are broug
economic policies failed in the past, they ll fail now, they re going to put us further in dead. moody s economist this week just said the romney economics plan would cause more harm in the short-term and slow down the recovery. so his recipe is not going to work. so this president is committed to making sure we continue to recover from the recession. to rebuild more security for the middle class. which is the defining challenge of our time. you talk about democrats right now, a tough couple of weeks for the campaign, including a mistab the president made talking about the private sector doing fine. here are some of the headlines that no doubt you see some across your desk, concerns among democrats, a feeling that major donors feel that he could actually lose, jim carville worried about obama s message on the economy. are you dealing with a sense of panic among democrats? no. listen, i think what we need to do is embrace the fact that this is going to be a close election. it s goin
was in the private sector. when those ideas were put to a test when he was the governor of massachusetts, a candidate back in 2000 it interpreted those results this way when he was governor they had the third or fourth worst economy of any state in america. the manufacturing jobs left this country at 7%. they left massachusetts at 14%. so, i think people just take a look at his record as governor, and again, as the head of his investment company, he presided over the acquisition of companies that immediately laid off thousands of workers. now again your campaign against mitt romney in two,000 eight is long over. but the substance of your critique is what the president is critiquing romney for today. you don t see any problem with that, do you? it s accurate? look, this is the height of a very tough primary campaign that mitt and i, were time after time after time i showed my respect
election. because this country cannot afford, president clinton actually said it will be calamitous for the country if mitt romney is elected president. so the stakes here are enormous. the choices are profound. and what democrats need to do and anybody who supports this republican, independents and republicans out there, is work like heck to win this election. that s where we need our energy focused. not on some of the hand wringing that sometimes occurs in our party. latinos decide the race. can we can we infer that based on the attention that the president s giving to immigration, something that he could actually do with this order on friday? now listen, you can t say that one voting group or even one state, it s too premature to say that. this is going to be a close election. now listen we re running a grassroots campaign. we believe in registeri ining voters, turning them out, neighbors talking to neighbors. our campaign is building the breast grassroots operation you ve see
when ted kennedy and i had comprehensive immigration reform, it was a obama senator obama amendment that was one of the factors, there were many, it was one of the factors that killed comprehensive immigration reform. and the issue was on the on the guest worker program. right. but you can t deny, the conservatives in the republican party that made a republican president who championed this issue unable to get this done. i think the major factor was probably on the right. but it was also on the left. democrats controlled by the labor unions who said that they did not want and fought against a guest worker program, which we felt was obviously something vitally important. you think mitt romney is wrong on the dream act? i think mitt romney, he said again this morning, he was and has said previously, he was certainly willing to address that issue in a and also immigration reform in a comprehensive fashion, as well. he is willing to do that, and is ready to do that. he unde