bottom line. they have no choice but to accuse the obama campaign of character assassination. but that s not too convincing. so now romney s senior aide has described the bain ad as performance art gibberish. shouting louder and getting more angry is not very persuasive. well, romney s adviser is actually describing testimonials from real people who lost their jobs because of romney s bain capital. this is what the romney camp calls performance art gibberish. let s turn to bob shrum, democratic strategist and nyu professor. bob, good to have you with us tonight. glad to be here. romney tried, i think something similar in his losing run in 1994 when he wanted to unseat ted kennedy. i think a spokesman back then said that kennedy, the camp had put words in people s mouths. what about that?
character assassination. but that s not too convincing. so now romney s senior aide has described the bain ad as performance art gibberish. shouting louder and getting more angry is not very persuasive. well, romney s adviser is actually describing testimonials from real people who lost their jobs because of romney s bain capital. this is what the romney camp calls performance art gibberish. let s turn to bob shrum, democratic strategist and nyu professor. bob, good to have you with us tonight. glad to be here. romney tried, i think something similar in his losing run in 1994 when he wanted to unseat ted kennedy. i think a spokesman back then said that kennedy, the camp had put words in people s mouths. what about that? yeah, well, that s what they said. the boston globe went out and
his death comes two and a half years after his release from a scottish prison. he was let go on compassionate grounds because he had prostate cancer. he was expected to live only a few months. at the time of his 2009 release, victims families were outraged after he received a hero s welcome in libya. many believe al megrahi was just a small player in the bomb plot, and the case needs to be pursued. earlier today, i talked to a former spokesman for the victims families who lost a brother in the attack. they want those in the u.s. and britain to find all the responsible parties. it s now up to obama and cameron, the families have persevered for over 20 years, and with the support of the media we kept this as a front page story worldwide. i do believe we could put the pressure on them to find the truth. and i would love to meet with president obama. i met with bush 41 on april 3rd 1989 for over 90 minutes. and i would love to have that one-to-one meeting with the president.
with critical thinking skills, most colleges today would get an f. we are joined by nyu professor and co-author of academically adrift richard aren. good morning. good morning. we don t find many kids like that today getting those kinds of grades. today, we would give them b s. in fact, you have suggested that maybe we need to give kids a ged test just to see what they know because some of the kids who didn t go to college are smarter than the kids who do. yeah, that proposal by clarence page is interesting and provocative. i do think that we need to move from just giving people paper degrees to assessing what they learn and seeing whether or not they can actually perform these basic competencies. if they re not learning critical thinking in college, what are they doing? well, in our study, we followed several thousand students. we found a third of them spending less than an hour a day
i m asking for you to get out and vote and i m asking for you to go on mitt romney.com and pledge support in every way possible. let s turn to nyu professor bob shrum and ezra klein. good to have you with us. bob, you first, he s dialing for dollars! it wasn t supposed to be like this. what do you make of this? romney has the super pac money on his side but is he in trouble financially? well, he can t in the end be in trouble financially because he can write the check. he doesn t want to do it i think since he it s his last chance to be the nominee he thinks he will be the nominee. at the has to write the check he will write the check. what happened is a lot of folks are watching him and beginning to decide this guy is a mediocre politician, favorable-unfavorables are upside down. policies don t work in terms of