would be superior. i don t think he has to say i m exponentially better than the president as an alternative. he has to say at least i m marginally better and a safer bet. and also the format is interesting because even though it s only one moderator, jim lehrer and so forth, there s going to be a lot of room after the first two minutes back and forth for the moderator to guide like a 10 or 11 minute discussion of each of six topics. people haven t looked at that yet. that s unstructured territory which no politician likes, and if romney can take advantage of that, it could help him. one thing i have learned from military history and debating history, the best position to be in is to attack from a defensive position. when the other guy throws the sunday punch, that s when he s vulnerable. he s sitting there with his self-satisfied look and that s when you put him away. you wait for the other guy to take his sunday punch and you put him away with there you go again or something like
says that s the key event, that first hour even of that hour and a half debate. is that your look at the way this thing could turn and take another turn in another direction or double down for obama either way? it seems to be the only other big turn outside of an event we can t fathom right now sitting here chewing over the campaign. this will be the next time where a bunch of people tune in and they want to see whether or not mitt romney measures up to the president. i will say if you look at mitt romney s debate performances early on as a candidate and in the primary, he can be a very effective debater. it would not surprise me if he outperformed the president in that first debate. remember, the president is there, it s the first time in four years that someone really gets in his face and challenges him sort of in the same room. he doesn t have that. and so that would be a chance to turn it, but he really has to be able to convince people that he has something specific that would b
put lipstick on this pig. welcome to your $$$$$. i m ali velshi. christine romans the host of your bottom line, my good friend, has been studying these numbers. she breaks it down for us. christine, everybody who watches knows some jobs day we have some area of disagreement. i can t find one. you and i are together on this. the glass is half empty. you and i both see it that way and it s rare. 69,000 jobs created. this the world s largest economy, the world labor the world follows, the biggest driver of growth. there you go. if people don t have a job, they can t be spending money. here is the trend, look. this is what s important. you don t look at one month of data. you like to see what the trend is nor markets and economics. the trend after 200,000 jobs created and more, people are saying, it s healing, look, the rearview mirror, a slow jobs recovery, then a stall here. one of the reasons might be europe. quite frankly when your biggest customer has countries in it tha
country and stressing his own blue-collar roots, his grandfathering, a coal miner ats all genuine by the way. we know rick santorum very well. he s a genuine guy. when you see rick santorum say and do is who rick santorum is. but i am telling you that the republican party big wig it s karl scproaf these kinds of people, all right? they basically look at the landscape and they go, if it is santorum who gets the nomination, in august, in tampa. all right? then what they are up against is an ideological conservative against a populist liberal, with all of that implication for right. bill: the independent voters. i think that s the way a lot of the establishment wants to see the election. but i would submit no, they want someone more moderate like romney to get the independent votes. yeah, that s my point. romney s a safer bet. bill: right. but that might be a little
country and stressing his own blue-collar roots, his grandfathering, a coal miner ats all genuine by the way. we know rick santorum very well. he s a genuine guy. when you see rick santorum say and do is who rick santorum is. but i am telling you that the republican party big wig it s karl scproaf these kinds of people, all right? they basically look at the landscape and they go, if it is santorum who gets the nomination, in august, in tampa. all right? then what they are up against is an ideological conservative against a populist liberal, with all of that implication for right. bill: the independent voters. i think that s the way a lot of the establishment wants to see the election. but i would submit no, they want someone more moderate like romney to get the independent votes. yeah, that s my point. romney s a safer bet. bill: right. but that might be a little