going to be that s what the romney campaign has decided to test. they want to make this guy as generic a candidate as possible, nonspecifically on policy. he was very offensive rhetorically to the british peoplething. but the premise here more than any campaign at the presidential level, we want to put a guy up there who is a nonentity and we want people to vote out the incumbent. yes. what is the entity? do we want to talk about bain? no. do we want to talk about income tax? no. do we want to talk about success? no. do we want to talk about mormonism? no. who are you then? the whole purpose of this trip was basically two things. has not been controversial, which was his tenure turning around the olympics, which he also sort of undermined that conversation. and no, i don t think this is going to be the driving force in the election. it won t be. the president has a sizable
there. you answer that question. i think it s an important question. this is the first african-american president. we ve never had a white president told to shut up in the middle of a major address. we ve never had a president like this heckled so duringfully. and never had this afforded to any other president. i think the right wing has some explaining to do. to me it seems not to their base, though, julian. the problem is there aren t grownups on the other side saying this is out of bounds. no one has the courage. mitt romney says nothing when a woman is call a slut and and the yeah, go back to sandra fluke, the treatment of women, anyone who dares to not be a conservative. you re treated as a nonentity, and there isn t anyone on the right to stand up to say that is out of bounds. that is why all the of the demographic data is showing that
a nonentity, rather than their president. greta: this being so penitentiary to the democratic party and president obama won in 2008 by 12-14 points, why hasn t he called up president obama and said, come on, help me? do politicking with me? the mayor of milwaukee doesn t want obama s negatives and obama doesn t want it because he doesn t want the loss to be attributable to him and it would be if he came in and campaigned. but everybody knows this is front and center not just about the presidential election. when you look at the fact that state and local governments spend huge amounts of their budget, probably a third of it on education and that that is tightly controlled by the unions, and this would free that control, this is absolutely pivotal. we have tried everything in education reform, dumping in more money, higher starns, all kinds of stuff.
a nonentity, rather than their president. greta: this being so penitentiary to the democratic party and president obama won in 2008 by 12-14 points, why hasn t he called up president obama and said, come on, help me? do politicking with me? the mayor of milwaukee doesn t want obama s negatives and obama doesn t want it because he doesn t want the loss to be attributable to him and it would be if he came in and campaigned. but everybody knows this is front and center not just about the presidential election. when you look at the fact that state and local governments spend huge amounts of their budget, probably a third of it on education and that that is tightly controlled by the unions, and this would free that control, this is absolutely pivotal. we have tried everything in education reform, dumping in more money, higher starns, all kinds of stuff.
i think yes and no. i mean if this were strictly an election on the economy, i think the president would have some down side and he s still at 8:00, although the upside is that the trajectory is going in the right direction and people do feel like things are getting somewhat better. what s interesting is that the framing that the president was making yesterday, is he is essentially the backstop against republicans come back and doing to the economy what they did before. whereas previously this was an argument against george w. bush, if you notice, this is an argument against congress. the president is running against congress, saying they are the hand maidens of wall street, the rich big corporations who want to go back to doing what they did before. he s essentially reduced mitt romney to sort of a nonentity, a rubber stamp for this congress that he s saying, they re the reason we haven t created more jobs, they re the reason things aren t better than they and they want to go back t