didn t think she should have to. if i m a clinton adviser, that s a problem for me. transparency and authenticity are paramount in the social media culture and the lack of it, ask mitt romney. i don t know, you know, i don t know why edward snowden can t just give us all her e-mails and get this over with. why are we still talking about this. let s go to somebody else, they must have them. they have all of our e-mails. look, there are great advantages to being in the public arena as long as the clintons have been. organization, allies, experience, all of it. the disadvantage, i think, is that when you re there that long, you can miss changes in the political culture. you can fight the same battle you fought 20 or 30 years ago. by the way, this happens to reporters, too. we are not immune to been there, done that disease. you don t see what is in front of your face, someone younger comes along and gets it. i think she needs to change as a candidate and change her perspective
not a spokesperson for the president. this is not someone on the street corner taping on youtube. given citizens united decision they wield an enormous amount of influence in the race. vis-a-vis hilary on a conference call earlier, kelly, a designated surrogate for the romney campaign, referred to as an obama adviser which is pat t patently false. when you talk about fairness and she s on television a lot as a leading democrat. she s not for romney, is she? there are literally hundreds of people on television now representing the republican party and the democratic party. and mitt romney and barack obama don t take ownership of most of them. good lord, contact president obama and say, do you take ownership of all the things ed rendell says? it is worth noting the dnc has walked back her affiliation with the democratic committee
and i think that s that s the test. that s what people are going to look for. who can be the president in this time and place with an economy as it is and the statistics arne talked about. i think the secretary spelling is absolutely right but i don t think inequality is a red herrin. we have not seen on much income and wealth going to the top 1% since 1928 in this country. when you have all that money going to the top, the vast middle class doesn t have enough purchasing power to keep the economy going. we don t have enough money to invest in our schools. this is not a red herring. this is a serious, huge problem. we have mitt romney last year, year before, earned $21 million and paid a tax rate of 13.9%. lower than most middle class people pay. how in the world are we going to invest in our schools or get the long-term deficit under control or do anything else we need in this country if people feel the
alternative. so, what i think is going to be so interesting as romney now becomes the nominee, as he becomes the face of the republican party, what are those state legislators going to do? does the romney campaign have the power and the authority and the stature really within these base republicans to go in and say, stop it. give me a break. let me talk about the economy. i got to win this with women. although, when mitt romney you say people are going to watch what romney-m does, when mitt romney s had the opportunity to push back on some of these very extreme like limbaugh. he didn t do it. so, he had plenty of opportunities to say, this is wrong, this is extreme, and he blinked. he frittered them away. he frittered them all away. will he learn? i hate to cut everybody off but i have to cut everybody off, governor. it s even more than that. it s about a woman s economy. you take away federal funding for planned parenthood, for women s health care, that will hurt her
what his positions are as far as education and funding for schools and mitt romney has wrapped his arms around paul ryan s budget which would cut grants and education funding. robert, you wrote a story that terrified me called a romney fable. i wonder what you make of his comments, i guess it was a couple weeks ago when he told a student asking about student loan debts, he said, you should go to the cheaper college effectively and don t expect the government to forgive the debt you take on. well, you know, student debt is right now over a trillion dollars. that exceed credit card debt, exceeds auto debt. i know, i teach here at the university of california-berkeley. the tuition and fees have risen more than 20% over the last two years. a lot of middle class families cannot afford it. they re taking on huge debts. students are leaving here and they can t even find jobs. you know, we are not investing in our educational