who promised to cut it in half in the first four years and save jobs, i think the same thing can be used for the spin you are handing out here tonight. no, i m being more respectful. $5 trillion in debt, you deaf the in defense i believe, and by the way, he did apologize for america and he doesn t believe in america exceptionalism. you find me a situation he apologized for america. he s the biggest booster of america. the biggest booster of america? let me bow to that one. and here s the rest you guys are talking about tax cuts. let s get back to jobs. he s created no jobs. fewer americans working. look, because we were in a deeper, most troubling situation john, you said this at the top of the evening. we should have more recovery again. he got into a bad situation. oh, come on. but he has extended the bush tax cuts, extended payroll tax cuts and not only that he has done it in a way that s produced
but the more important part is the message. central to the obama cap pain strategy in places like ohio and michigan is to talk about the policy on the auto bailout, and how that did save jobs in places like upper ohio and the general election, where it will play out and where romney thinks he could have an advantage by attracting some of the working class voters. this is the difference in the economic message we re talking about. by saying we saved part of the ohio economy, the obama campaign thinks they have a leg up on mitt romney. talking about the message, steve, the vice president today talked about how the economy works best, listen to this. we re not anti-capitalist, it s the system that built the country. we hope investors do well. but you can t build an economy of the future, and the only people that do well are the
strategist and msnbc contributor. the auto industry bailout helped save jobs in ohio, are you surprised there s not more support for barack obama in ohio at this point? the last poll we looked at, only two points separated barack obama and mitt romney. alex, you know what governor strickland said is absolutely correct. ohio is traditionally very closely divided, that s why it s been such a barometer of national opinion. it s why it s been right presidentially 27 of the last 29 presidential races. i suspect we ll go down to the wire in ohio and i would expect ohio to be won 51-49, 52-48, something like that. do you want to predict who will take it? too early for that. right now president obama is leading slightly. but no, this is may. i have learned over the years, the hard way, that people who
ed saying, quote, things would be better without the bailout. and just two days later, general motors announces record profits of $7.6 billion. and finally, romney gets a big endorsement from michigan s republican governor who just happens to disagree with him on the bailout. did the bailout save the detroit auto industry? well, the bailout actually was something that really worked. if you look at the results of the companies. romney s mess in michigan highlights how out of step he is on the issues. you either think government can help save jobs, provide health care and regulate the banks or you don t. my view is, repeal dodd/frank. we re going to get rid of obama care. my view with regards to the bailout, whether it was by president bush or by president obama it was the wrong way to go.
they don t want government to intervene, use detroit and the auto industry as an example. now, the fact that the president did do that and a success, trying to to have it both ways, if it wasn t a success it would be something else, but really talking about whether it would have been any state in this country, any industry, whether the government should have intervened to help save jobs. there s at least two important issues here we begin to touch on. one is that the government the active, bold, aggressive leadership by the president what it was called for. nothing short of courageous leadership. it was a big risk and he took it and it has paid off hugely for cities like lansing, detroit, all across this country it saved the auto industry and saved the supply chain, for ford as well, because if that supply chain went away, ford would have been threatened it is about leadership, and sometimes leadership involves saying you re sorry. it involves saying i was wrong and romney can t admi