with. they lost a pastry chef, so this is really important, and he will get to russia when he has more time and he figures out what s going on with the croissants. i also think it s remarkable how president obama is the commander in chief, the leader of the free world. the president of the united states is the one who sets the foreign policy of the united states. if there are people who are offering other suggestions like steve hadley and david wilson, condi rice, just off the top of my head, things i have read in the past week, he could take those, but he doesn t have to do anything with them. it shouldn t be the opposition s responsibility to come up with a foreign policy for him. the president wants to lead, just tell us where we re supposed to go. putin and the crimea is not a foreign policy of the united states. it s a foreign policy decision of russia. it is incredible, bob, that you take a different position on every issue depending on what it is. what are you talking abou
obama in 94? the only legitimate way to get this stopped is to use military action of some kind. that s not the case. you can t talk them out of it. we have created a grad stubt climate where we have retreated from the world which allows this to happen and it s too late, bob. you re right, it might be too late, but it wouldn t have been too late if you had a leader that didn t ascribe to this, let s work on ourselves, let s work on the united states. we retreated from the world. are you suggesting that mitt romney was president, they wouldn t take the crimea right now? he talked about russia. he talked about it, sure. you think for a minute he wouldn t be in crimea now if mitt romney weren t president? he s going to go further than crimea. that s the fear, the worry, and the ultimate goal. if you re going to lay consequences down, follow through. freeze russian assets. shut them out of our markets, get the eu to do the same thing, or do what eric said and don t ope
obama in 94? the only legitimate way to get this stopped is to use military action of some kind. that s not the case. you can t talk them out of it. we have created a grad stubt climate where we have retreated from the world which allows this to happen and it s too late, bob. you re right, it might be too late, but it wouldn t have been too late if you had a leader that didn t ascribe to this, let s work on ourselves, let s work on the united states. we retreated from the world. are you suggesting that mitt romney was president, they wouldn t take the crimea right now? he talked about russia. he talked about it, sure. you think for a minute he wouldn t be in crimea now if mitt romney weren t president? he s going to go further than crimea. that s the fear, the worry, and the ultimate goal. if you re going to lay consequences down, follow through. freeze russian assets. shut them out of our markets, get the eu to do the same thing, or do what eric said and don t ope
the tea party loved him. they were so happy when mitt picked hip but they re now very disappointed. it looked like a rare moment of courage for mitt romney, but instead he decided to run away from paul ryan s positions as fast as he could, shake the etch-a-sketch again, and now you have conservatives who are grumbling and saying this, but it would, of course, be disaster for romney. the same question for you, gene. i was at a family event and my 90-year-old stepmother is having her birthday. one of the people in the family is a doctor. the word is out this could kill this ticket of romney and ryan, this whole thing of messing with medicare. nobody wants it messed with apparently. nobody wants it messed with. you saw the reaction that paul ryan got at aarp the other day. a chorus of boos. people don t want to screw around with the program and voucherize it the way paul ryan wants to do. and so i think this sort of let ryan be ryan thing just isn t
of these. i suspect that he will be pressed on these things. now, he s been preparing like crazy. he hasn t just been fund-raising. he s been in a room, he s been in a room with rob portman and he s been preparing. the guy i think is smart, at least smart about numbers. so maybe he can memorize these answers and maybe he ll bring a better game to this than he did to 60 minutes. totally nonpartisan question. everybody has their own favorite formats. i think he likes a formal setting. i moderated the debate at the reagan library the last time around. he did very well. he likes formality. he likes the moderator to be formal, you get your time allotments, everybody treats everybody in a formal, structured way. is obama able to match him in that environment where his brain power may not be that useful in that formal environment. look, where did mitt romney make his bone, so to speak. it was bain and company, not bain capital, as consultants. probably great with a power point and wonde