democratic party putting an ad out, two men trapped in one body, mitt versus mitt, willard versus willard. richard, how effective is that? it s very cute. it s got a sense of humor. by the way, they had three or four minutes of this stuff straight out of the gate. there is so much of this material out there for romney. there s no secret, the obama campaign, democrats in general have been very frustrated at what they see of the malpractice the republican candidates have inflicted on themselves by giving mitt romney a free pass. democrats want to say, this case is too easy to make and they don t want to sit on the sidelines. all of this stuff is his own words, by the way, in context. it s not out of context. it s in context against himself. i think it s very powerful for republicans as they look to see who is the authentic, true politician they want to have as their nominee. richard wolf, perry caken and erin mcpike, thank you for
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but let me ask you this, senator. when we talk about it and certainly $1,300 a family is a lot of money to a working family, but collectively, this was in the washington post. this would impact a 0.5% of the economy. so collectively, we re talking about a real hit in terms of the economy, 400,000 jobs by the end of 2012. this is serious. yeah, it s real serious. you know, it s this. it s the tax increase that the republicans are going to force by filibuster on working families. it s also their opposition to extending unemployment benefits. i was just at the nestle corporation, which is a stouffer s corporation owned by nestle. i was talking to a couple of workers who had been laid off for a couple of years. one guy said, i d never been laid off in my life, i was laid
will be the hallmark of the campaign as they go forward. so they re going to pick the target of unemployment, but even though this unemployment usually hurts the incumbent, do you believe he can tack against that, like in a sailboat, and go against the wind, like teddy kennedy used to say? can he win on the jobs issue as an incumbent during a high-unemployment period? that would be a first. as long as the republicans continue to do all the things they do to keep infrastructure from not being one of the places where we engage, and where we provide resources and we provide money. tonight when the debate goes down, the question is going to be should there have been the help to the auto industry that the federal government provided? republicans are going to be wrong on all those issues, he is going to make unemployment a republican burden, not a
enthusiasm. mayor brown, it seems that president obama is a highly educated guy, elite educated you might say surrounded by a lot of guys from the people very much the old left and new left combined. not exactly a labor guy, not exactly a bread and butter democrat. seems like he s merging into one with all of this talk about billing bridge, building highways, putting people to work, fighting republicans. the pop you list aspect of barack obama, do you think he got a good okay last night? absolutely. and as long as he accepts the idea that you ve done health care and it s time for the people to speak on it, you shut up, you stay out of it, don t make health care a referendum on your performance but keep people engaged in the pursuit of jobs. he ll be all right. you ll notice the white house hasn t said a word about what happened in ohio on health. and i think that kind of silence