candidate that doesn t have a sense of the room, doesn t have a as soon as of people he s talking about. mitt romney made those comments about the olympics in london. i was there this weekend. you didn t have to be there long to see how excited people were. you don t walk into a dinner party and tell the host there s something wrong with their lawn. mike allen, thanks very much. we appreciate it. when we come back, can the red sox keep the magic going against the tigers? the answer is yes obviously. the as and rays played 15 yesterday, almost long enough to make it to the beginning of way too early. keep it here on morning joe. this is new york state. we built the first railway, the first trade route to the west, the greatest empires. then, some said, we lost our edge. well today, there s a new new york state.
but america s winter olympics were mired in scandal and deficits. they turned to mitt romney. he faced a $400 million deficit and turned it around to $100 million sur palace. mitt gets things done. he changed my life. mitt romney brought a huge sense of hope. he allowed athletes like myself to be able to restore our dreams. welcome back. at the top of the hour a beautiful look at london whereof course the 2012 olympic games are going on. that ad of course references olympic games that went on ten years ago, and that was a new ad, part of the pro-romney super pac restore our future that s spending $7.2 million over nine key battleground states from nevada to florida. welcome back to morning joe. mike barnicle, john meacham,
me about looking at romney in london was his lack of agility. it was this incredibly stiff presentation which i find striking. you think about obama in 2008, they executed the important trip he did extraordinarily well. and the stakes were very high, much hyper than for romney because the media coverage was so much greater. there was an active war going on in iraq and candidate obama went there. he went to much bigger places, to berlin in front of thousands of people. he got that stuff, what he needed to project.
romney earned $250 million and has a dressage horse competing in the olympics and, therefore, you can, too. why do you continue to pull the punches when it comes to mitt romney? it was a great halftime speech, i m with you. let s go out and get them in the second half. i actually think that olympics ad was pretty good. simply because people are focused on the olympics now and that s why this period is at best a wash and probably a negative for mitt romney. i think people notice the olympics gaffe in london because, you know, nbc s ratings are through the roof on the olympics. people are paying attention. and in that context the ad maybe gets a little bit of that back. all in all this will not go down
than american. and the man who dominates cable news tells a third of americans they are weak because they use government assistance. we have become a society that tolerates slackers and in some cases even rewards irresponsible behavior. tonight, a substantiative response to bill o reilly s weak argument with jonathan altder. single moms churning out three or four and they can t support themselves. governor mitt romney has made his debut on the world stage as a presidential candidate and his act has been met with a collective groan. it happened when nbc news brian williams interviewing romney in london asked if london looked ready for the games. here s what he said. you know, it s hard to know how well it will turn out. there are a few things that were disconcerting, the stories about the private security firm not having enough people, the supposed strike of the immigration and customs officials, that, obviously, is not something which is encouraging, because in the games,