i think those conversations are pretty rough. i think i probably couldn t repeat a lot of them on the air. i think they re really upset about the health care mandate, they re upset about the state the country s in in terms of the economy. i think those are really tough conversations. i think you ought to go to the water cooler, right, in the offices of america, in the office parks and so forth, where you re going to find the kind of men who are going to have a reasonable conversation, who aren t going to think that romney and the republicans are the solution or the answer. yeah, matt, what do you think, that anecdotal factor of people who work in offices rather than work in road gangs or work in factory, you ve got a better shot? yeah, i think that s right. although, there are parts of his record that are macho, as you mentioned, killing bin laden. prosecuting these wars. saving ford and gm. how about saving the auto industry? yeah, those are things it seems to me they can pl
country right now? anybody? right now when you look at the al-qaeda affiliates in places like yemen and somali, those are cause for concern as we have seen. that s why getting this guy was essential. al libi was a key affiliate, and taking him out was essential. and we took him out in a place where, under the bush administration and those clips in 2008 that you just showed, we essentially had a situation that those areas were seated in triable deals at the time. we had a very passive approach, and what we had under obama is a very aggressive approach to go after the al-qaeda core. i would say it s the terrorist groups and yemen and somali. and i think the threats are very real and new threats.
i think this administration is moving to address that, and obviously iran and the role it plays in the middle east and the gulf region and i tempts to support terrorist networks. they re a grave threat. i have to go to michael on this, can iran hurt us? how does it hurt us through hezbollah? who do you see as a threat to the united states now? i mean, i agree with what brian just said, i think the threats that we were concerned about, the ieds and those threats, and cyber threats from china in the homeland, and a threat from iran through hezbollah contacts, we have not seen anything very credible with that, butly say that the obama administration has been trying to get the message out that they re countering this.
correspondent for the national journal. hear is jay carney trying to explain the significant can of al-libi. there is no clear successor to take on the his duties. they removed the number two leader for the second time in less than a year. further injuring the groups morale and cohe thinks and bringing it close tore demise than ever before. let me go to brian on this. it seems like w. would be hot dogging on the white house steps in cowboy boots if this was on his watch, and now obama is doing it in a quiet way. they re not paying attention to this killing at the top are they? it s clear the economy is the number up with issue, but the record on national securities that been so strong, it s like
let me finish tonight with this. men, males, guys, whatever, what s you guy s problem with president obama? i think it would be interesting to know the answer. well, 60% of women in wisconsin said they d vote for obama in november, compared to just 45% of men. we can imagine why women are pro-obama. he s put the focus on health care, he s been supportive of women s rights of equal pay and other concerns when the republican party s become suspect on these issues, or forthrightly hostile. now about the men. if you look at obama s foreign policy record, he s been surprisingly tough out there. he s carried out a smooth withdrawal from iraq, begun a similar pullout from afghanistan. he s gotten bin laden, and just this week he got the new number two guy in al qaeda, so, again, why the obama problem with men? well, the latest nbc/ wall street journal number has his approval number at 50% and rising among men nationally. that s not good. and obama s losing to men among romney right now, 49%