bill o reilly miller time segment this evening. go right to the sage of southern california. southern santa barbara. i know you are rooting for mitt romney tonight. what s your advice for him? at the beginning i think he should come out and say listen, mr. president. keep this above board if you promise to meet me i will promise not to be nasty with you like joe biden does. that way i would keep it above board. biden is doing more harm than anybody to the president. this guy is shakier to jinga tower. i think mitt romney is doing great. i know everybody else is bummed out. guess what? i have seen the light. he is either even or within the range of error and most of
bill: he has to rise above. absolutely. he he needs to be presidential. he needs to be nor o reilly or rove on this issue because both of us are too spun up about it. bill: okay. two minutes left in this segment. what is the most important thing that mitt romney has to do tonight? if you make me pick one, it is to give the american people a sense of what it is that he is going to do so they walk away saying he has got a practical common sense set of answers to the problems we fay faces a a country. in a debate you never get to do one thing. let me suggest three. that s one of them. second, he he needs to strike a presidential tone. he needs to look more like the guy in the oval office than the guy who was there. third, he he needs to in the right way call out president obama on both his record and on his misstatements. he needs to not every misstatement. not every part of his record. he needs to pick his targets carefully. he needs to look like is he strong and convincing and
care about the 47%. he should say let s put it this way, mr. president, when i m alone in a room, i speak to 53% of the country. when you are alone in a room it would appear that you speak to 14% of the country if you want to play games like that. bill: would you play that game though? would you play that game? you didn t ask me that you asked me if he brought that up first. yeah. bill: that s what i m talking about. is he going to bring it up. you know the 47% is coming. would you go back with the 14%? would you go back with it? no. because i think mitt romney is winning, bill. i don t believe the polls. i don t believe the hacks. i think he is in great shape. i think this president is so bad at this job guy goes out there and looks comfortable for god s sake. huckster guy like is.
divisive rhetoric. that s true he has done that. will voters respond to that. some will. the casual voter may alcoholic it up to politics as usual. sos same old stuff. both romney and obama were speaking to the choir when they made controversial statements. they were whipping up the crowd. many romney supporters resent the fact that the nanny state is growing stronger in america. on the race front, polls show more than 90% of african-americans continue to support the president and truth be told he has not used race while governing this country. but there is no question that in that virginia speech, he did say that black americans in new orleans were treated badly simply because they were black. the problem for mr. obama is that s debatable. it s not a fact unless you are spike lee. the presidential debate this evening should be a passionate display. he has to call out barack
call the whistle. turn the president s words back on him when it comes to the president s failures in office. bill: i m hearing from you that you want to see governor romney be a little bit dispassionate rising above very in control. not really showing a lot of emotion here. i want him to be compassionate, energetic, determined, somebody who looks presidential. bill: this is what i would do which you have already told romney not to do. i look at him down the line you know, i m tired of this, mr. president. i m really tired of you trying to paint me as somebody who wants who hurt working americans. that s just a lie and you know it s a lie. and you are spreading it around. and i m tired of it that s what i would do. in politics you have got to be careful about the word lie. everybody expects politicians to stretch the truth. when you call him on a lie you have got to be careful about