day. preparation for the. you didn t. bill: you didn t attack barack obama s record. you went light on him. you went light on the reverend wright stuff. you went light on his background his achievements he voted present. you went light on that. in hindsight is that a mistake. i went hard on him about his philosophy on government. remember joe the plumber and that i didn t think it was appropriate to go to the reverend wright and all of that. i thought it was about the campaign was about the economy you know, whenever you lose, there is always lots of postmortems and i will plead guilty to all of them. the failure of that campaign to win was my fault and mine alone. bill: and the reason that you lost? maybe i didn t run a good enough campaign. maybe i wasn t strong enough. i also would point out though without making any excuses
day. preparation for the. you didn t. bill: you didn t attack barack obama s record. you went light on him. you went light on the reverend wright stuff. you went light on his background his achievements he voted present. you went light on that. in hindsight is that a mistake. i went hard on him about his philosophy on government. remember joe the plumber and that i didn t think it was appropriate to go to the reverend wright and all of that. i thought it was about the campaign was about the economy you know, whenever you lose, there is always lots of postmortems and i will plead guilty to all of them. the failure of that campaign to win was my fault and mine alone. bill: and the reason that you lost? maybe i didn t run a good enough campaign. maybe i wasn t strong enough. i also would point out though without making any excuses when the day the stock market
day. preparation for the. you didn t. bill: you didn t attack barack obama s record. you went light on him. you went light on the reverend wright stuff. you went light on his background his achievements he voted present. you went light on that. in hindsight is that a mistake. i went hard on him about his philosophy on government. remember joe the plumber and that i didn t think it was appropriate to go to the reverend wright and all of that. i thought it was about the campaign was about the economy you know, whenever you lose, there is always lots of postmortems and i will plead guilty to all of them. the failure of that campaign to win was my fault and mine alone. bill: and the reason that you lost? maybe i didn t run a good enough campaign. maybe i wasn t strong enough. i also would point out though without making any excuses
first. before we get to the fascinating, fascinating article on romney, i want to get your thoughts on this idea that we re basically relitigating battles that are quite old at this point which is to say we re now hearing the old chestnut of community organizer being trotted out and to be fair the bain stuff, private equity stuff, is stuff being used in the 1994 senate race. all campaigns are the same campaign. right. i think that s right. you re probably still going to get more of this critique from the romney camp of obama s early biography than you did in wait. i thought the reverend wright stuff is a distraction. you re not going to have the explicit mention of reverend wright. it s been in the playbook to contrast romney s 1980s spent in the private sector, making money, making jobs, losing some jobs with what barack obama was doing. and so i think you re going to have a lot of that. yeah, all these campaigns are very much the same. you know, you have wouone ofe
selective campaign. when there s top secret information they want to put out that makes them look good, they re more than happy to roll out the red carpet. when it s the more nefarious, embarrassing information, they put the stone wall up of bureaucracy. if it was cy hurst saying i want to do a bin laden story, he would not have had that kind of meeting. do you think that s fair? the response from the pentagon has been the identity of a planner, not a member of s.e.a.l. team 6 was provided, for additional information. most of this stuff, they were going to get access to the vault room, an empty room. there s nothing really there. just so they can get a feel for it. is it much adieu about nothing if. the administration can control what information they want to release to whoever they want to release it. i think it s also kind of lame, too, to be honest with you. giving it to a hollywood producer for the purposes of packaging it in some sort of glorified theater is like it just str