well spoken. anyway, the president s own support at a fund-raiser. to read it, it wasn t taped. the good news, there been enough frustration at washington, sort of reached a fevered pitch last week, now looking at 16 months in which there s going to be a clear contrast and a clear choice. what do you make of that? a great 16 months ahead of us between now and the election because there s a clear contrast? what is this? a dibberation period coming up for the american voter? also, as you and ron were saying, is there such a clear statement of principles and plans? from him? from him for the next 15 months? there isn t now. a long period of time, political landscape could change. he could make his case, but you know we re going to be in a situation where the economy isn t good pt right? even if the economy if we don t go into the double dip recession we won t be in a booming recovery. that really increases the need, the imperative for him to say, i have a plan that will help us
move forward. here s what it is. how does the president clarify his position on jobs? ron, last thought? by marrying his rhetoric to policies. fine to say we have to focus on job, fine to pivot to jobs as everybody was saying in the last week, what are you going to do about jobs? clear contrast. clear choice. if he doesn t make the choice in the contrast clear the republicans will do it for him, and they ll do it in a way that muddies the water. heed he s got to lay down his principles and marry them to policies. i say bring up a jobs program, make the republicans vote against it. i bet you that buckle this time. thank you, susan age and ron reagan. up next, after the all the turmoil on wall street which continued today, is it time for panic? steve colbert is funny if you want comic relief from a difficult week on wall street which we ve all had. you re watching hardball only on msnbc.
registered voters said he deserved re-election. not a healthy number. traditionally below 50 you re vulnerable. right. holding a core vote. not a bad thing. could be lower. you don t win in a two-way race with 47% of vote. he needs to do better than that to weren t re-election. kind of a magic number on job approval. usually we think it s 50%. george w. bush managed to win a second term with 48% job approval. you need to be a little higher than barack obama has been these last few months, this last year or so if he ll win a second term. doesn t seem right to me. the gallup poll shows president obama beat a generic poll. back to what you said, ron a telling critique of the president now. i want limb to succeed, i m fond of him. they re transparent right now. too much talk, little action. too much academic behavior not
well spoken. anyway, the president s own support at a fund-raiser. to read it, it wasn t taped. the good news, there been enough evered pitch last week, now looking at 16 months in which there s going to be a clear contrast and a clear choice. what do you make of that? i found it confounding. he s saying there s a great 16 months ahead of us between now and the election because there s a clear contrast? what is this? a deliberation period coming up for the american voter? also, as you and ron were saying, is there such a clear statement of principles and plans? from him? from him for the next 15 months? there isn t now. a long period of time, political landscape could change. he could make his case, but you know we re going to be in a situation where the economy isn t good. right? even if the economy if we don t go into the double dip recession we won t be in a booming recovery. that really increases the need, the imperative for him to say, i have a plan that will help us move
president obama taking a quick trip to boston for a fundraiser on wednesday. normally, a nonnews worthy event except when a member of the news media gets banned from the event. in this case, boston herald denied full access says the president, the herald taking issue with the snub seen in the headline and apparently another headline which caused the white house to deny the paper access in march, the herald ron a mitt romney op-ed citing president obama s failings and the white house took note and remembered. when the herald requested access to the president, this is how the white house spokesman responded. i tend to consider the degree to which papers have demonstrated to covering the white house regularly and fairly. my point about the op-ed was not that you ran it, but that it was on the full front page which excluded any coverage of the visit of a sitting u.s. president to boston. i think that raises a fair question about whether the