started. but the president doesn t talk about most of that stuff. i m saying i think what we are doing here is saying listen here is where the economy is. here is what he has to run on. he has something to run on. and it is not you can say as bill kristol pointed out, he didn t talk about obama care. he doesn t talk about the stimulus. never even mentions that word because it is so toxic but the fact is that there are indicators for the american people for you or anybody that has the kids coming out of college in the spring and looking for a job that say there is reason to think that we are on a right track. so i disagree with my colleagues here. chris: having said that, the economic news and we just got the latest economic report for april on friday and the news was not good and let s put it up on the screen. only 115,000 jobs created. the unemployment rate went down because 342,000 left the workforce and the percentage of americans in the workforce those who either have jobs
things, to say the least. let me focus on the issue of bin laden for a moment. that was a proud day for all americans. our armed forces did a phenomenal job and the president made an important and wise divisio decision. now, he is is teaing it further. he it taking something that should unite the american people a moment of pride or our country and instead turned it into a weapon for political warfare and i think that is wrong. i think it is wrong for the president and vice president to take this issue and use it for politics. it goes back to the point i tried to make earlier when this president ran for office in 2008 he said he was going to be different. he was going to be a post partisan uniter to bring americans together and three and a half years together the president quite frankly has become just like anybody else in washington, d.c. in his obsessive effort to win the reelection he has lost himself and lost what makes him different and this issue of how they used the bin laden ra
steeper the fall has been in essence the steeper the recession is the faster and sharper the recovery should be and i think that is what governor romney is talking about and rightfully so. and look, i have faith, there is nothing wrong with the american people and the american people are the backbone of this economy. they haven t run out of good ideas or for businesses they want to open. the american people haven t foregotten how to create jobs punishment they do need a government whose policies make it easier to do these things not harder. if you look at the president s record it is a record of policies that make it harder for americans to start a business or grow an existing business anded thereby create new jobs. i m glad we have a nominee with high expectations for the american economy because the american people have high expectations for the american economy. chris: when you say the president s policies made it harder to start a new business or hire people give me two examples
i think he has the opportunity to win hispanics in florida. while there is no such thing as the hispanic vote there are some things that unify the hispanic community. chief among them is economic aspiration. they want to do better for themselves and leave their cher better off than themselves. i think if you look at the obama record it is not a record of upward mobility. it is record job losses and record unemployment. people dropping out of the job search. hispanics have been disproportionately affect by the obama administration bad policies with the regards to the economy. the american preenterprise system which is what mitt romney is campaigning on that is the only economic system in the history of the world that allows people to climb out of the circumstances of their birth and leave their children better off than themselves. that is a compelling argument to make to all americans, especially americans of hispanic dissent. will you do whatever mitt romney asks, whatever mitt
great but it is better than what he inherited. not about his record. he will make mitt romney into the third term of george w. bush. chris: you think that is right, a.b.? i think that bill might be right. he might have to say are you better off now than you were in november of 2008 when you elected me. yes, you are. he is running out of time. the estimates for growth have been downgraded and we will not see the kind of growth in the next six months before people go to the polls that is going to boost hiring and the picture is not going to change that much. if this is not enough progress for americans they will vote him out. chris: before we get overly negative about that, i mean we do need to point out the fact that is that he is either leading or tied in the polls and experts would say he has a much easier path to 270 electoral votes than mitt romney does at this point. liz, one quick political question to ask you. are you considering running for