stick them in the basement of the white house and have them nothing but writing jokes about mitt romney. you couldn t make this stuff up. steve mcmahon, the president doesn t get credit for a tax cut that he was responsible for. i think another great example, i mentioned it here on hardball a couple of nights ago, where he s not sold it. he hasn t sold it. republicans are blocking it. they don t seem to be paying a price at all. you re absolutely right. the economic things that he s done, to some degree people are aware of, but they don t always have a positive impression of those things. he hasn t been as effective as he d like to be about telling a story why they matter. in detroit, they have gm today and an auto industry. it s important for america to make things. people understand that. it s important for manufacturing job to be in this country and not just in china and india. people understand that. but connecting those dots is something that politicians, knot just barack ob
just barack obama but many politicians have trouble doing. they re very good at saying what they did. they re very bad at sometimes articulating why it matters to folks and why folks should care about it and appreciate it more. president obama acknowledged his oratory prowess during the 2008 campaign and how things have changed since then. watch. when i ran everybody said you can give a great speech, but can you actually manage the job? in my first two years, i think the notion was, you know, he s been juggling and managing a lot of stuff. but where is the story that tells us where he s going? i think that was a legitimate criticism. ron reagan, is part of the problem for the president that it s easier to control the message when you re the candidate? everyone looks to you. but now in office, you have portfolio with portfolio come lots of surrogates. now both in the white house and outside the white house that it s hard to manage the message? to some extent that is correct.
trouble doing. you can t look at the global context and say, we d like to spend money on this, but what else would we like to spend money on? maybe we would rather use the money for the purpose or the basic reasons they want to spend it on, so california has been tied in knots, but it is not how you make a budget. and special interest money is so prevalent and in many ways a m motor behind this. what is interesting is that at t the end of the day, there is the usc did a study of 2,314 initiatives have been on ball lots and only 14% have been approved. voters don t like to make the laws at the voting booth, jimmy. ballot initiatives are an abrogation to elect the members of the house and the senate. we lekt them to make laws, and
happen, of course i d have women in augusta, sure. best golfer on the campaign trail, calista gingrich, a fixture on the trail with her husband, newt gingrich, tweeted this about the augusta national controversy. i m a golfer and i d love to belong to augusta. on the fairway, tiger woods doing what a lot of us have trouble doing, teeing off. chasing a fifth green jacket. a decent front nine, but ran into a bun. of trouble in the back. finished the round tied for 29th. he s sitting there five strokes back. lee westwood ended the day in front. the public versus private, which job losses are having a bigger drag on unemployment? we ll take a deep drive. we re also going to have alan kruger, chairman of the president s council of economic advisers. still ahead, did eric cantor undercut romney s most frequent attack line against the president? we ll let you know what it is. you re watching the daily rundown on msnbc. [ johan ] hello, piper. nice up-do.
romney, and the lead in south carolina, why can t he close the deal? paul, he was never expect today win south carolina, come on. he hoped to do well in iowa and clean up in new hampshire and see what happened in south carolina. so, we sort of raised some expectations here, about mitt romney in south carolina. well, look, there was a he key moment in that thursday night debate when santorum was raising over a volatile personal matter and romney took the stage, now, this is why you need an outsider from washington, somebody in the business, and all the oxygen left the room because he resorted to that fallback, empty rhetoric of anti-washington, instead of moving the argument forward, which he has great trouble doing. tell us something about yourself. something new, mr. romney. tell us what you think in instead of these throw lines. is that the problem that romney has, dan, he can t argue on his feet and looks inauthentic. gingrich is volatile, but