the economy is he he has been able to tell the american people that barack obama has screwed it up. now what you are doing and not only has he screwed up the economy, excuse me, he screwed this up. so it s a competency issue. what would have been wrong with that? because, you never know how it s going to play out. you never know how it s going to work. you never know what the ricochet is going to be.whelminr side. so what he had facts on his side in the second debate and it didn t work out on libya. i think that he was very right for making this focus on the economy. but the broader picture, bill, what he did in this debate was he he made sure that women did not think he was a warmonger. bill: now you are agreeing with me. the worry is that he was bush 43, that he was a cowboy. he proved to them he wasn t. that s one. number two, he led obama be an obnoxious as he was going to be. right now his favorability is higher than obamas and it just got much higher.
sane people know it wasn t about the video. that was one of the elements according to the cia. it wasn t one of the elements. it had nothing to do with the benghazi attack. nothing. that is an opinion that is not made by the cia report. the talking points cia memo of september 15th. bill: every analyst now says that including hillary clinton the secretary of state. i m telling it you what the cia said. i m giving you their report. god almighty. all right. were you surprised that romney was soft last night? on the libya question? bill: yes. he was soft across the board. well, it was a tonal judgment. it was a tactical move to win the bigger strategic battle. bill: were you okay with that. at first i was very frustrated. i wanted him to nail obama to the wall on lies and deceit benghazi terror attack that got four americans dead. at the beginning when i watched it unfold i was a little shocked by that. then i realized there was a method to the madness here. first
mostly it s been a 2 point race. barack obama or mitt romney could still win the election and nobody is going to win by anything approaching 8 points. ohio does matter. ohio is an incredibly close state. and our latest numbers we show president obama still leading by one point in ohio. and that is well above where he should be performing in a close national race. it is the fire wall. bill: okay, when you say well above what he should be performing, you have to take into account the auto deal in ohio. it s a very specific, the president s policies toward the u.s. auto companies benefited a lot of workers in ohio. and. and governor romney has not handled that very well. well, in your opinion, scott. i m not ticking up u. up for romney. that s not my job. arrest night new listened closely president obama misstated the governor s position on the auto situation and it wasn t fair and those
monitoring the upcoming vote in america. first, women voters. as i said in the talking points memo i believe mitt romney s decision to go softer on barack obama was aimed at getting women to support him. the author of the new thriller darkness rising. am i right here. i hate to say it because you are right. i hate to generalize about all women. many women don t like confrontation especially in their personal lives. the question for the debate can you bring that in or look obnoxious. i don t want to see my president or presidential candidate trying to beat up on each other. they did that the second debate all that finger pointing. bill: when they were finger pointing. i don t like that. and circling each other like two sharks you at home were thinking what. makes me uncomfortable. it s not presidential. i don t want to see that i don t know if it s a woman, man thing. bill: it was two men doing it i don t know if that s because i m a woman i don t like it or because i don t
bill: what did you think about that? two things. first of all, chris matthews picking on a kid who doesn t even look like he is old enough to vote in this election. he should pick on someone his own size. secondly, he is repeating the administration s lies from about five weeks ago. bill: wait a minute, the administration doesn t say it s about the video. they are not saying that anymore. they did for two weeks. in other words, is he going back repeating lies from weeks ago. bill: this was last night. correct. that s what i m saying. bill: barack obama is not going to say it was about the video anymore. that s what i m saying. chris matthews is repeating the administration s lies from five or six weeks ago, bill. that s what makes this whole thing outrageous. bill: is not outrageous, it s bizarre. when i heard that last night my head snapped back, are you kidding me? you are the only person in the country dry that would defend that you are. you the only person what