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.
an act of terror. it was not a spontaneous demonstration, is that what you re saying? please proceed, governor. i want to make sure we get that for the record. because it took the president 14 days before he called the attack in benghazi an act of terror. get the transcript. he did in fact, sir. so let me call it an act of terror did you say that a little louder, candy? mitt romney repeating the story told about the subject on the right in the way that is very satisfying to conservatives. in a way that is told on the right is a story is told the stories exactly what they want to hear. a comforting story about how this bad president never used that word terror in talking about these attacks until two weeks that happened. that story must feel great if you re against this president and if you only experience reality as mediated through the conservative media, you might think that is really what happened. that is not what happened.
think we have much precedent for, in fact, it is hard to believe it s true, until you see it in motion, and in an incredible debate, like we had last night, what is new and true and strange is a campaign and a politician that cannot be bothered to come up with real positions that the candidate believes. that the campaign admits to, and that everybody, at least, pretends to understand. dan rather joins us next. with the spark cash card from capital one, olaf s pizza palace gets the most rewards
positions in that administration. and this group got together and demanded, frankly, of me and of mitt romney that we make a pledge. that we pledge to bring more women into, whether it was my or his administration. so we actually signed, i think he did too, signed the pledge. so when he goes and says that he was out finding all these women, the fact is, the women beat on our doors and said, take these binders. so at least the binders, i think, was truthful. but the binders so you re saying, just so i get this right, it s not that mitt romney realized that all of his cabinet, potential appointees, as he mentioned last night, were too male in terms of the pool, and he needed he sent people back to go find binders full of women in order to change the gender makeup of the people he was considering for his cabinet. you re saying that you guys were both offered these binders before you were ever in a position of appointing anybody? i m saying that i m sure the