later but still a major issue. harold ford agreed with the fellow democrat cory booker and then you have steve ratner last week who agreed who works with president obama as car czar and also knew cory booker. how does the president answer that question about private equity? i was stunned, i was listening to this in my car driving my kids to and from piano lessons and i m glad i caught it because the questioner actually had three parts to the country. is romney responsible for the jobs that were lost, you know, how do you respond to cory booker and do you believe that private equity has a good place in our economy? the president really dodged the cory booker part. he also dodged the is romney responsible part? but it came out yesterday what the theme is going to be now. they re going to alter what they were saying about private equity because, you know, you can t have it both ways. you can t attack mitt romney and then take money from private equity guy. what they re going to do is sa
new jersey, crime rates are plummeting. he s a guy that was democrat and out in force for senator obama when he was running for president, helped him get elected and went and said something very smart. he said don t attack private equity. there are a lot of states that rely on private equity investments for jobs, for investments in his state. he was smart and all of a sudden, this retraction that came on you tube a couple of hours later, did he have that look of uh-oh, what did i do? did i let the cat out of the bag? what s the question? is he looking for a job in the white house, is he looking for a cabinet position in the white house? why walk it back, then? i don t know. survival in the democratic party because he was a rising star. but this is the way he was being assessed by some democrats last night which is he said what he said for selfish reasons, number one because he took campaign donations from bain and other private equity firms to become mayor of newark but he said it
there s $134 billion worth of private equity investment in 2011 in the various states. interestingly, some of the states which are swing states were of the largest beneficiaries of the money, north carolina, for example, was third on the list with $10 1/2 billion in private equity investment. florida $7 1/2 billion. colorado $5 billion. ohio $5 billion. these are five swing states that benefit dramatically from private equity investment and jobs created from private equity investment. i think this is a failing proposition by the obama administration. i wouldn t be surprised if after this next run of, you know, discussion, dialogue, they move away from this thing. he said this isn t a distraction yesterday. he said this is their line of thinking moving forward to november. well, we ll have to see. david axelrod tried to walk it back and he said i liked what cory booker said second as opposed to first. he was backpeddling and said he was taken out of context when he made those commen
and found the grade level of the speeches declined from an 11th grade level to a 10th grade level. constitut the study found the republican congressman became the most advanced speeches. simplest speeches were given by the republican congressman rob woodall. those your headlines. how do they know that? how do they know that? not in congress anymore. from florida, the one term congressman. die quickly. let s talk about president obama yesterday, sitting there with his world in his audience and he took some questions from the press. the local press. at which time, one of the questions was about bain capital and about private equity and about cory booker coming forward as mayor of newark, new jersey and saying he has a real problem with indicting, i paraphrase here, indicting private equity firms as a problem in this country. he says it s nauseating to him. he walked that back a little bit
discussion on meet the press. there s no way he was taken out of context. i watched the whole entire thing. he wasn t cut off. he wasn t interrupted. he got his full statement out. sarah palin on with sean hannity. she s disappointed he walked it back did the mayor of newark later on in the day. dog gone it. it was ashamed to see cory kind of back down from what his answer was which was so candid, sean he was the antithesis of the politician because he did this before he spewed his answer. he understands that obama doesn t understand the free market system and he will condemn private equity because he doesn t understand the benefits of private equity in job creation. so it was a shame that cory backed down a little bit from that. but i think we saw what his true feelings were. he articulated it. part of those true feelings, may have been because cory booker received more than $500,000 from private equity firms when he was running to