president the rough and tumble. but no one has with bill clinton in that sense of liking politics, liking people, sort of being connected. i ve watched him campaign over the last couple months. he s been very energetic. on the move. taking the initiative, proactive, getting romney. he s enjoying it. his campaign he s the more aggressive. romney s got the less aggressive campaign. obama s more aggressive now. but, look, i m a bill clinton guy. what can i say? everybody knows that. i also wanted to share with you joe biden at the naacp offered this today. it will be familiar. you know what they say? flattery is all right as long as you don t inhale. memories of 1992. those were the days. i was there. i was there when it came off the set, see, it s not a problem.
fish tale. good day, i m andrea mitchell, live in washington. vice president joe biden at the naacp a day after mitt romney took the same stage in houston. biden enjoying a much friendlier reception as he preached the gospel according to barack obama. we are our brother s keeper, we are our sister s keeper. we have an obligation. and at the outset, as i said, i believe this election will come down to character, conviction and vision and it will not surprise you, i don t think it s even a close call. firing up the base. nbc senior political editor mark murray joins me now. mark, it s no surprise that joe biden would get a better reception at the naacp than mitt romney and mitt romney did get a respectful reception. there were some boos, of course, when he talked about cutting the president s health care bill, repealing it, but he did get a
right, this is not just a you re right. this is two things. this is a financial recession which is tough but it s also three decades of stagnation, job loss, and and growing wage disparity. and wage disparity. all that truth. when you say middle class, why we say it s the middle class, stupid, this is an argument about the character of the country and a very big argument about the futures. it s a very strong place to be to run a presidential election. sure is. you wrote about mitt romney in your book, if you don t want to help the middle class, confine talk about income inequality to your quiet room where you can look at pictures of each other s yachts and count how many cadillacs you re you have a way with words. he said we should talk about this in quiet rooms. my point, no, we need to scream about it from mountaintops. why point is, why isn t there a presidential commission on restoring the american middle class? why isn t there a university center, a think tank
document that says he was the ceo and chief operating officer? i think they can make that argument. i m not a securities lawyer so i don t want to completely opine. i think they can make that argument. i think the point savannah made is a really good one. the romney campaign has taken credit for every job created by every company bain invests in including jobs created up until today. they re trying to walk away from any job lost after 1999. those two things don t line up with each other. i wanted to ask you about the fiscal clear and what we face, because you have been such a persuasive exponent of doing something and taking some tough decisions. this is some of the conversation. warren buffett and some other players that you know very well, simpson and bowles on squawk box with becky quick today. the u.s. economy is doing better than virtually any big economy around the world. this economy has come back a long way with the exception of housing from where it was a few
of bain. this is from february of 2011. so he s claimed all along in his personal filings with the campaign that 2001, rather, not 2011 that he actually left bain in 1999. the campaign s argument has been he left with all intents and purposes that he wasn t really running the company. correct. isn t that a hard argument to sell given he s signing the s.e.c. documents saying he was the ceo? the key here is there was no question he had ownership. he had some ownership involved here. as he has said, as bain has also confirmed, it has independent source after independent source has said, including as recently as today, brooks jackson, again, reaffirmed the fact that mitt romney left in february of 1999 to run the 2002 olympics. he went out there, he was 16 hour days out there at olympics. he had no management, no active management role whatsoever at bain after that time.