unemployed right. sounds like he has a tin ear. it s a difficult balancing act. you re absolutely right. because i think mike has his finger on the pulse of the problem going down the line here. and you just really summed it up. and that is that very thin space where it becomes class warfare. and i think for the republicans, that s going to be an immediate knee jerk opportunity. let s go and make that argument. and for democrats, you know, saying they re playing class warfare. democrats playing it off and missing the point that you both just made about talking about the aspirational aspects of it. not focusing so much on what i did as president, but what we did as a country. i still say and includes the bush administration, the fact that neither of these presidents at a time of war or economic distress has asked the american people to sacrifice. right. and because of that, when you come forward with these policies and this new direction, people
this station is divided, david. because of attitudes like that. and gingrich is getting some free advertising here in the granite state. joe mcquaid, publisher of the union leader offering another endorsement for the former house speaker. hammering mitt romney. the editorial entitled crisis in america. it appears in today s paper. he wrote conventional main street republican conventional wisdom holds that former massachusetts governor mitt romney has the, quote, best chance to defeat president obama. on the contrary, romney may be the worst candidate. for one thing his claim record as a fiscally conservative governor is as much of a sham as his flip-flops on social issues. romney is a nice, rich man with a tin ear. he may or may not release his income taxes. plenty of pals in the republican in-crowd. romney would be a disaster as a nominee, so writes joe mcquaid,
hours after it was aired. jon huntsman came out with this. i will always put my country first, it seems that governor romney believes in putting politics first. governor romney enjoys firing people. i enjoy creating jobs. that is pretty loud sound, but needless to say, jon huntsman already using it as an arrow. guys, on the panel, i want to ask, we talk about mitt romney closing the deal or not, joe mcquaid and the new a tin ear and plenty of pals in the republican incrowd, romney would be a disaster as the nominee. robert, what do you make of that? ouch. ouch on more than one point.
in moving hosni mubarak aside and creating the path to elections that we are seeing now. it had a great amount of popularity and goodwill. unfortunately it s losing altitude. it s been fairly heavy handed to protestors. it s subjected civilians to military tribunals. it s been seen as partial to hosni mubarak s cronies. it s another signal that the military has a tin ear when it comes to politics. heather: is this good news or bad news for the u.s.? i d say it s a very bad sign. in places like this we look for the military to play a bit of a stabilizing role as a counter weight to islamists like the muslim brotherhood, the political parties. if you look at turkey, for example the military there played a very important role in counter balancing islamist sentiment and preserving secular rule. it s changed lately as the country has resolved but it s a
of private boondoggles that are going on as well and the administration p.r. officials have a tin ear when it comes to timing on these things. take a look at the time when president obama went to martha s vineyard and his wife went to spain and it s just it is the perception, it s the politics of perception and that matters. and in fact, president obama just this week had called for some belt tightening and no unnecessary travel. so critics say is five days in barbados and the dominican republic really and trinidad, really necessary snoo au especially if you re talking about medicare fraud and attending a conference that s an annual thing, not the special meeting that needs the attorney general s attention. back to transparency, doj only released the actual schedule to one news organization, the daily beast, which is a liberal organization because they didn t want people they certainly are. i think those are really good points but we do have serious