involved, 61% of the country. makes no sense. that s why romney s convention speech made no sense. he was going along i thought like an a-minus speech and then launched we re going to go to war with iran and bring back the cold war for russia two things the american people desperately don t want. it s interesting, that s one of the reasons why to the extent it was thought through, they left afghanistan out of the speech. the truth is americans don t want to have a long conversation about afghanistan. they don t want to think about it. you know, short of the parent whose kids are fighting there. but it really is a complicated situation. there is no there is no result there that s going to make americans feel good about like what we ever did there, what s going to happen next. it s a mess. two words oil prices. nobody wants them to go up. that s why the israel/iran thing matters more than any of this in terms of the politics the next two months. dysfunction junction shaun, la
policy and the proper policy response doesn t always win the day. it s a theme that s been with the president since he got into politics. remember in 2008, he made that comment about how people cling to guns and religion and animosity towards people who are other during a campaign fund-raiser. what he was talking about there was ha the passions cause the electorate to act in irrational ways. something that has fundamental, he thinks he s got the rationality on his side in this campaign. you hear it today. a number of times. the president s spokesman people are saying we re going to bring honesty so this to this convention. i think you re going to continue to hear it especially since romney in recent weeks is really dependent on really distorting reality to deliver his message. that was a very polite way of saying lying. the reaction to romney s convention speech was less than euphoric. only 38% say they liked romney s
i m not familiar with what i said, but i stand by whatever it was, whatever i said. entering the home stretch of the presidential race and there is first lady, michelle obama. at and on the stage of the democratic national convention in charlotte, preparing for the speech that she will deliver tomorrow. delegates have been gathering in large numbers already outside the actual convention hall, but there she is, being given directions as to where to speak and a microphone and obviously the telepromter stands as well. and her husband, the president, well, he was out in ohio where he wished a happy labor day to auto workers in toledo and everyone working hard each and other day as he pushed his role in securing the auto bailout that kept the assembly lines running. ohio, we re not about to take
being week assuming we woebt see oprah winfrey talking to an empty chair. what can voters expect to hear from democrats in charlotte? well, look, i ll tell you what. what they ll hear is a president and party talking about policies that are move the country forward. i mean, we ll talk about a balanced approach to create jobs and return security to the middle class. you know, you ll hear on friday morning, no one will guess what the president s rationale is for a second term like they did at the end of mitt romney s speech. but on friday morning, there s a jobs report coming. are you concerned at all that that may to some extent steel the thunder of the president s speech? well, look, we re always concerned about the jobs reports. not because of report s political impact, but we want to see jobs continue to grow. we have had 29 consecutive months of private sector job growth. no one thinks it s enough or
by a directed connecter? i think that was not what they expected. i think they expected him to speak for about three minutes. went on for about 12 or 13 and wauf that, it pushed the entire event back and some people probably didn t even get to hear mitt romney speak. i think he delivered a fine speech. it was just about what he usually does. maybe short of some substantive issue, but more like a state of the union. hit on some of the points he wanted to get at, but clearly, he s probably not going to see much of a bounce out of that because this democratic convention is butting up right after it. michael, isn t the real problem here that although mitt romney has been running for president for over six years, the reality is that his personality, his character, has been defined by democrats and not by himself? i think you could say that true, but the real problem for romney, we have a very stable, fixed electorate. the republicans and mitt