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60 days, defining romney s background at bain and business and who wins this mini skirmish, if you will, preconvention and before the fall, will tell us whether romney will have the personal connection, be able to sell his background as enough to go into the oval office. you know, mike, there is a halo effect for a lot of business people that are running for office on certain issues. but ceos usually don t make good candidates, and a lot of times don t make good governors or presidents. do you think? you know, you can see in the numbers that chuck was just talking about, you can take the decline number. you can tie it to the republican congress. you can tie that to governor romney. you can tie governor romney to bain, big business, ceo, corporate profits, job loss here on the streets. that s a map to re-election. you can call it class warfare. it is a map to re-election. well, if you look at the fact that see, one of the things ....
Persuadable voters that they re trying to win over in order to make it over the top and be reelected in the fall are turned off by this type of i don t know if you want to call it class warfare or this pop lichl. they are not so much resentful of rich people of a system they feel treats them unfairly, but i think going after rich people the way the vice president did today is actually a risk when thur trying to win over swing voters. it is interesting. it worked for senator santorum when he talked about his background, his family, working in pennsylvania, his grandfather, and as well as newt gingrich when he won south carolina. i am intrigued by the fact you believe it is risky for vice president biden but sure worked for a decent period of time for newt gingrich. he may have blown it on other issues but along those lines it worked and kept rick santorum in ....
I want to bring in our panel again. julian epstein and here in new york, all of us watching and listening very carefully. ron, was that class warfare as you have previously described some of the president s speeches about tax and the buffett rule? i think it was. let s look at what this was. this was a brilliant campaign speech. if you re looking at the president trying to rally his base and trying to rally progressives, i think this is the beginning of his campaign. if you re looking at this as a substantive policy speech, i don t think so. as jonathan and i both talked, i think the so-called buffett rule won t go into effect this year. he is drawing contrast between himself and the republicans. how is it class warfare when the president is basically trying to level the playing field? well, this is about tax fairness. ron likes to call it class warfare. i think the republicans will lose that debate. this was a brilliant speech on a number of levels. first of all, obama is clearl ....
you have this app in photos that s going for you know, a billion dollars. pretty crazy. mario, great to see you as always. good to see you. see you in pictures on instagrams. okay. the website reads i am the real george zimmerman. it warns viewers to be careful of other websites falsely claiming to be raising money for him. it includes a link for people to donate money, to pay for zimmerman s lawyers and living expenses. so far no criminal charges have been filed against zimmerman. so this is how deadline day looks in syria. troops were supposed to withdraw from cities across the country this morning. then on thursday a cease-fire was supposed to take effect. as you can see, the attacks are continuing. opposition grooms say more than 60 people have been killed today alone by government forces. kofi annan who brokered the peace deal is appealing to both sides to stop the attacks. president obama is on the road today to make his case for the so-called buffet ....
Here are some of the facts in the budget. take a look. letting the bush cuts expire for those making more than $250,000 a year. gas and coal companies, the plan also imposes a $61 billion tax over ten years on big banks to recoup costs from the bailout. warren buffett pays a lower tax rate than his secretary. that s not fair. it doesn t make sense at a time when we ve got to pull together to get the country moving. i m proposing some difficult cuts that frankly i wouldn t normally make if they weren t absolutely necessary. but they are. the truth is we re going to have to make some tough choices in order to put this country back on a more sustainable path. so republicans are already calling it class warfare. minutes ago ....