in politics is unemployment number is not as important as disposal income. as a factor to be elected president. if gas prices are that high, disposable income as well. eric: can i throw one thing out there? for every penny higher in the national average in gasoline, billion of spending disposal income comes out of the american economy. if it goes up a dollar, it s $100 billion. bob: let me ask dana a question. the democrats are obviously going to brag about this. they have been snake bit. up and down and up and down. is this something that obama should take carefully? dabs take it with a grain of salt. they can rub the salt in wound in november if they win. recruiting on the republican side in battleground state have been good and numbers are on the republican side this time around. it depends what seat are up that year. good thing.
this. the musings have been what happens because the president s hardest, hardest critics have been the far left. and that people are saying he hasn t delivered on gitmo, on afghanistan. all of a sudden, hillary clinton has eclipsed him in job approval favorable ratings. the question is what if. even noonan s article said she didn t think hillary clinton would do it or want to do but that the president was snake bit and has a problem. i think secretary clinton has done a fabulous job and i think former president bill clinton has done a fabulous job as a spouse and family member as well as a citizen around the world. he s done nothing but help this administration. he s gone out for blanche lincoln and jack murtha s successor. he ll be out there, i assume, this fall, including helping bill white in texas knock off that character, rick perry, the
it wasn t mr. carter s fault that the american diplomats were taken hostage in tehran but he handled it badly and suffered. mr. obama is starting to look unlucky and file this under mysteries of leadership that is dangerous for him because americans get nervous when they have a snake bit president. they want presidents on whom the sun shines. certainly shined most of the time on ronald reagan. what do you think of that analysis? well, there s much to it. i m not sure i d use the word snake bit. probably a lot of americans would substitute the word competent, decisive, forceful. the point is, somebody in the white house told me the other day president obama told them early on about 15% or 20% of our time we ll be spending on our agenda and the rest probably reacting to other things. we re in the reacting mode right now. and the problem is he went into reacting mode and didn t have a clear plan and most importantly has not seemed forceful, has not seemed as if he is on to knowp .
may soon reach its borrowing limit if we don t make some drastic changes and reduce our $13 trillion national debt. but president obama wants billions more for stimulus spending. somewhere there appears to be a rather serious disconnect. here is the question. does it feel like a recovery summer to you? go to cnn.com/cafferty file. post a comment on my blog. to millions of americans the answer is certainly no. yeah. we ll hear what they have to say to you, jack. thanks very much. back to our top story, that massive oil spill in the gulf of mexico, the growing political fallout for president obama. let s discuss with our senior political analyst david gergen and gloria. let me read first what peggy noonan a former speechwriter in the reagan administration writes in the wall street journal. the president is starting to look snake bit. he is starting to look unlucky like jimmy carter.
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