do not be a blooter. thanks for watching us. please, always remember, the spin stops right here because we are definitely looking out for you. >> sean: 84 days are all that remain before the voters head to the polls in one of the most important elections in our lifetime. here's the reason why i believe that. listen to what vice-president joe biden said earlier today. >> romney wants to let -- he said the first hundred days, he's going to let the big bangs write their own rules. unchain wall street -- big banks. they are going to put you back in chains? >> pretty unbelievable. we will have more on that outrageous comment later on in the program. but team obama proves yet again, they don't have a record to run

on. while campaigning in iowa, president cheap shot couldn't resist an opportunity and brought up the old story about the romney family dog, shamis. watch this. >> he said that new sources of energy like wind are imaginary. his runningmate called them a fad. during a speech a few months ago, governor romney even explained his energy policy this way. i am quoting here -- you can't drive a car with a windmill on it. that's what he said about wind power. you can't drive a car with a windmill on it. now -- [chuckles] -- i don't know if he has tried that. i know he has had other things on his car. >> sean: by the way, does the president forget he admitted to eating a dog? if that is not a sign at that time obama campaign is in panic mode, i don't know what is. while they are throwing mud to

distract you, the voter, governor romney and congressman ryan are putting forth bold solutions about how to get this country back on track and get people back to work. here's what congressman ryan said earlier today. he was in colorado. >> we are offering solutions. and among those solutions we are offering are number-1, make sure that we use our own energy because we have our own energy in this country. the last thing, when i was filling my truck up, it cost $100. the only reason was because the pump cut me off at fl 100, i didn't even fill the gas tank. enough! we have our own oil and gas. we have nuclear. we have all of the above -- wind, solar, coal, let's use t. let's make our energy independent. let's create jobs -- [cheers and applause] -- >> let's stop spending -- [inaudible] by buying oil overseas.

>> sean: joining me now, karl rove. welcome back, sir. >> good to be back. thanks for having me. >> sean: we are going to get into this in more detail. but we have to start with biden. this is the dirtiest campaign i have seen in my lifetime. a campaign that is full of lies, distortion, propaganda, misinformation. they seem unhinged, desperate and on top -- just the need -- beneath the dignity of the office, karl. you know? >> you left out one thing, which is today, i think it was an appeal to racial unrest. i mean, danville, virginia is in the south side of virginia. it's an historically african-american... community, strong african-american population throughout the south side of virginia, where they used to have plantations. to say, we're going to put you back in chains makes it look like the republican ticket are going to be a bunch of slave owners, going to enslave

african-americans again. this is insensitive language. we have come to expect it from joe biden. but i wonder, if since he was working off a teleprompter if they didn't put this in there to make a racial appeal. it was remarkable. >> sean: they have a truth team member of virginia who suggested that romney was racist. let's see, he's a felon, hasn't paid his taxes. you know, he wants dirty air and water -- what is left? are they going to stab granny, slice her throat and then throw her over the cliff? >> they have already thrown her over the cliff. >> sean: they have to shoot her first. >> torturing granny. maybe that's even too much for the obama campaign-- i don't know. >> i thought the nonchalant attitude of team obama -- we don't have a problem with biden's comments. if they don't have a problem with it, then let's have vice-president biden make that part of his standard stump speech and see how far it goes. the american people are not that dumb. they are in large measure turned

off by this president because he spoke so beautifully about bringing us together in 2008 and now the campaign has been reduced to smear, slurs and half truths and demagoguery and then, mean-spirited appeals like we saw today from the vice-president. >> sean: let's look at the electoral map. in the end, we are looking at 12, 13 states that are going to matter. have you broken this up in red for romney, blue for obam alight blue is leaning obama. the changes in the states over the last 30 days, particularly, colorado, connecticut, georg, missouri, arizona -- explain those. >> a couple of changes that i don't really believe which are missouri and georgia. they went from being solid romney. they switched at one scpoint -- two points and ended up being leaning romney. they will be in romney's column, no if ifs, ands or buts.

colorado had old polling that showed it as a lean romney. now it's solid romney. interestingly, a new poll in connecticut, showing the state has drifted from solid obama to leaning obama and colorado with 9 votes had gone from lean obama to tass -- tossup. two things are not reflected in that map that are reality. look, south carolina, which, you know, the last poll we have there is from december. joe trippi and howard dean's former manager and bret baier and i discussed, we are going to put it in the romney column, raising his total by 9. i think we are likely toy see a change in the next week in ohio with 18 electoral votes and wisconsin with 10. ohio is a tossup state. it has been moved into the lean obama column by the presence of one poll, overly large democratic sample. the next poll or two will put

them back into the tossup. and ryan's presence is likely to move from lean obama to tossup. >> sean: i tend to agree. but ohio's key in this race. this is dead even in the rasmussen. 45-45. that report also showed ohio's opinion of paul ryan, midwestern guy, porn% favorable. 39% unfavorable. favorable for ohio. what do you think? >> look, i think we are likely to see this duplicated in a lot of places. as people get to know this attractive 42-year-old, thoughtful, reasonable, sensible, constructive member of the congress, they are going to say, that's a good choice. not only that, he's a truth teller who takes complex issues with deficit, debt and government and break its down in terms we understand paul ryan's district was won by al gore, won by barack obama and after his first race, which he won with

57% tpaul has been re-elected 6 times with 63 to 68% of the vote. and in a blue-collar, democratic-leaning district, he can carry the message to the people who will decide the election. >> sean: you are right. every modern democratic president has won ryan's district. obama won by 4 points and he has 60-some-odd percent -- >> 68. >> sean: well, he split the ticket. people split the ticket. one out of five obama supporters split it. the rasmussen poll -- was paul ryan the right choice? 43% say right choice. 22% say bad choice. let me play a s.o.t. of paul ryan. his background is fascinating to me. here's what he talked about as relates to those who demonize him, his grandmother on medicare and his life experience, working at mcdonald's. >> he's speaking to people as if we are stuck in our station of

life. victims of circumstances beyond our control and only the government is here to help us cope with it -- [boos from crowd]. >> you know, i don't know about you but when i was growing up and flipping burgers at mcdonald's in front of that big hobart machine, washing dishes or waiting tables, i never thought of myself as stuck in a station in life. i thought of myself as the american dream and the path of journey and i can find happiness however i define it for myself. >> sean: you teleprompter, compelling life stories. >> yeah. look, this is one of the great things about this guy. i know him well. we spent some time driving his district together. his brothers give him no respect whatsoever. this is a great sign -- member of the congress -- big whoopety-whoop. so that's really fun to watch. he's so passionate about the right to rise. this is what we need.

you didn't create that, the government did it. but you have a right to rise. we need to change government and remove the obstacles, to you being everything you can be in life. i didn't come from much of anything. i didn't go to college except i have a $1500-a-year scholarship. life's been good to me. that's the life we want for our kids and grandkids and paul ryan embodies this and is passionate about it because he has lived the american experiment. >> sean: fascinating 84 days ahead. thank you, sir. >> thanks for having me? >> the romney campaign says that e biden has taken this to a new low, including this racially charged remark from earlier today. >> romney said the first hundred days he's going to let the big banks write their own rules. unchain wall street! going to put you back in chains. >> sean: when we come back, we

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gaffes he declared to the crowd that mitt romney and the republican party want to put the american people, back in chains. we can't make this up. watch this. >> romney wants to let -- he said the first hundred days he's going to let the big banks once again write their own rules -- unchain wall street! he's going to put you back in chains. >> sean: now, a spokesperson for the romney campaign responded to the comments saying they have taken the phrase to a quote, new low. the president's deputy campaign manager's refusing to denounce biden's racially charged rhetoric. instead, they are defending t. take a look. >> the bottom line, the president agrees with joe biden's sentiment but not his comment. the thought -- we have no problem with those comments. >> sean: once again issue we are witnessing firsthand that the president lacks the moral courage to govern. not only should he condemn the vice-president's words, it is time to ask the question do,

they need joe to go? joining me with the reaction to the controversy. stuart varny and dana perino. what do you do when you are dealing with a campaign that is dirty, full of lies, misinformation, what do do you in this case? >> i personally am getting tired of it. i don't like being accused -- i am a conservative, ordinary guy. i don't like being accused of wanting to put people in chains. i don't like being accused of wanting dirty air and dirty water. i am tired of this low-level campaign, which is hostile to ordinary americans. i never thought 3, 4 years ago that we would come down so low as we are now -- ever. >> sean: doesn't this all start at the top? the president has had an opportunity to say, i don't want bill maher's money. he has had an opportunity when the truth team member of virginia accused officerny of

being a racist, to make a statement. where is the president's civility? where is he? >> you could call a meeting and a, i want everybody to reign it in, more civility, are you on the merits? we can win on the merits. that hasn't happened. it probably will not. -- because why? why is that? -- he wants the helicopter and the house and the plane so bad? >> or he wants to push an ideology that he talked about earlier in the week about shared prosperity. maybe they really be believe it. i think to me, their campaign has gotten to a point where they are just say, well, this is politics and everybody does it. what i see in the pretionz and i have heard from some of them, people i dealt with many years and say, how can you accept this? -- what do they say? >> you know, everybody does it. okay. i think that -- when american people either tune out or they think, what would happen if the

republican had said that about putting americans back in chains? this is a civil society, you do not say it. >> sean: cancer, causing cancer -- a felon. murderer. doesn't pay his taxes. e. coli party. wants to throw granny over the cliff. we can go through this t. never ends. >> and the question, do you think that biden could be replaced at this late stage? that's my next question. flat-out, no. >> sean: i disagree. >> this is a president who has never reversed course, despite constant fail nur most policies. he has never reversed course. do you think he will reverse the course with the failure of his vice-president? i don't think so. >> sean: if he viewed biden as such a liability and thought that hillary would get him re-elected, they would say he has health issue, come up with an excuse and replace him tomorrow. >> 80-odd days to go? >> i think they underestimate the power of a little bit of

grace and a little bit of dignity and a push-back saying, whoa, got caught up in the crowd, in the moment, i shouldn't have said that. let me tell you what i really meant to say and go on from there. there is a power of graciousness -- that permeates a campaign. if it came from the top -- for example, a story about president obama buying everybody beers except the romney supporter. that's the guy you should buy the beer for and that's the story that gets out. when rachel at chick-fil-a is reamed out by the guy. what about calling her, instead of sandra fluke? or in addition to -- a little bit of give. >> doesn't this raise a sharp contrast between the official vice-president and the candidate for the vice-president, say, paul ryan? what a huge difference of a stark contrast this reveals. paul ryan has just redefined the election. he's energized the election. he has brought his campaign from the center. they are now leading the obama

team, spocial this issue of medicare and how to pay for it. that's a sharp contrast with joe biden. let's not forget, it was the vice-president of the united states of america who whispered an obscenity to the president of the united states on camera. everybody knew what he said f. that doesn't lower the office, i don't know twha does. >> sean: i think it's so beneath the dignity of the office and says so much about how they cannot ran their record. it reveals a lot about obama and the character and the person i felt this is the kind of thing you say when you run out of substantive things to talk about. i understand your adrenalin is pumping and you go on a step too far. >> this is part of -- look, i believe harry reid was sent to say what he said. >> i do, too. the opportunity to pull it back, walk it back. they never do it. >> we were talking before we came into the studio and i asked the question, do you think that

this could have happened, that we could sink so low? i said, no, i never imagined t. but i think they are emerging as chicago thugs, political thugs. >> you know who could have imagined it? the hillary clinton campaign of 2008, the same recipients of this type of behavior. >> they played the race card on me. you can do your stuart varny impression. >> good night, stuart. >> sean: good night. thank you for being here. coming up, we open the obama video scprawlt expose more hypocrisy from the president. it seems he's only a fan of scare tactic when isee uses them and we get to the straight numbers on medicare tonight, as we vet the president, right here on "hannity." ♪

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>> sean: now that paul ryan has been revealed as mitt romney's runningmate, democrats are painting to attempt him as a ruthless fiscal hawk who doesn't care about the elderly, kids or anybody. the attacks have centered around his medicare proposals because he has had the courage to step up and revamp medicare to save it from bankruptcy, now he's accused of throwing granny over the cliff and turning his back on poor children in america. the medicare and medi-scare

tactics are particularly troubling from a president who actually had the audacity to lecture paul ryan and republicans at their house retreat in 2010 on this very issue. back then, he railed against the politics of fear and division. now, my, how things have changed. watch this. >> that's why i say, if we are going to frame these debates in ways that allow us to solve them, then we can't start off by figuring out, a., who is to blame; b., how can we make the american people afraid of the other side? unofficial, that's how our politics works right now. it's all tactics. it is not solving problems. so the question is, at what point can we have a serious conversation about medicare? and its long-term liability? we put this in one of president obama's do as i say file -- if

there is any room left. joining me on the use of the scare tactics, welcome. >> thank you? >> listen to what he said here. he said, it's all tactics, it is not solving problems. the question is whether we can have a serious conversation about medicare. >> the truth of the matter is, paul ryan, chairman of the budget committee, has been a serious player. he has basically laid out very carefully, the problems that are facing this country. they're serious. you know, there is a trillion-plus spentorf year, a lot of it is in the entitlements, they can't support themselves long term. he put a budget together that passed in the house. the senate hasn't passed a budget in four years. the president's budget was defighted -- defeated he is bei. and he is being tarred and feathered. >> sean: romney's plan is going to restore the $700 billion plus that obama cut. that's number 1. they are going to rein in future

costs. if you are younger, you get the same plan and you can keep it. but if you want one of the premium plans, you get a choice, "a," "b," or "c," the middle cost is the one you take. you pay no money. none. zero. >> but the problem is, is the issue. it is the issue that in the dna of voters, they think democrats will spend us into oblivion and raise taxes. they think republicans want to gut social security and medicare. we saw what the president said. he promises not to be involved in doing this. but the fact is the attraction is too great. they see it as an electoral issue. the question for romney/ryan ticket is this, they have 20 days to go and discuss the big issue. for the first time, romney has the advantage. >> sean: i agree with you. here's the interesting part. they cannot get away with this -- this semantic game they are playing here that this is about savings. the cut isn't a cut.

no, a cut's a cut. the new romney ad is extremely effective. i want to get your thoughts on this about the medi-scare. >> you paid into medicare for years. every paycheck. now obama has cut $716 billion from medicare. why? to pay for obamacare. now the money you paid for your guaranteed health care is going to a massive new government program that's not for you. the romney/ryan plan protects medicare for today's seniors and strengthens the plan for the next generation. >> i'm mitt romney and i approved this message. >> sean: political jujitsu. great ad. it lays it out clearly. makes people realize that the obamacare is not a free program. it is going to cost -- it is going to cost people on medicare today. i think the reality here is let's have a serious debate on the issue and find a solution. >> sean: before i get your take on this, pat, let me show you

obama in a 20 09 interview, admitting that he is going to cut medicare, which he did and he is the only candidate in this race that cut medicare. watch this. >> one of the concerns about health care and how you pay for, one-third of the funding comes from cuts to medicare. >> right. >> are you willing to pledge that whatever cuts in medicare are being made to fund health insurance, one-third of it, that you will veto anything that tries to undo that? >> yes. i actually have said that... it is important for us to make sure this thing is deficit neutral without tricks. i said i wouldn't sign a bill that didn't meet that criteria. >> so congress needs to know you will veto any attempt to walk back what they pass. >> congress needs to know when i say this has to be deficit control, i mean it. >> three times the estimated cost. remember, it was 10 years of taxes, 6 years of benefits and

he took all the money from medicare. >> yeah. you get to the figure, now the figure doesn't hold. look, i have argued, the thing about the romney ad is that they have pivoted to the issue tshouldn't be about medicare t. shouldn't be obamacare. they should be dealing with the taxes and the whole idea that the mandate was a misled. s misled -- that's a better ground. and the president did cut it. the problem is, people believe in their bones, this is what they have to overcome. i don't understand -- if i were ryan, he has a mother on medicare. i would have that mother saying, my son isn't going to do that. >> i agree, totally. i am on medicare. [chuckles] >> sean: you don't look a day over 40. come. >> the key thing here and the part that's missing here, 12,000 people a day, the baby-boomers are added to this. so the idea that you don't have to make adjustments is absurd.

the president's got in the way, throughout this debate on obamacare, without telling the truth-- comma that comment -- >> now we need to be very serious. >> sean: this is dev stateing. we're out of time. good to see you both. i had no idea you were over 50. >> vilived a hard life. >> an exemption into medicare. >> sean: he is not backing down from this comment. >> as far as harry reid is concerned, listen, i know, you might want to go down that road. i am not going to respond to a dirty liar. >> sean: reince priebus sits down with me and talks about fighting the obama smear machine and says that obam has blood -- his hands and we will play a long list of praises for paul ryan as "hannity" continues. n ye caring for a loved one with alzheimer's, not a day goes by that you

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>> the chairman of the republican national committee, reince priebus, has emerged as the unapologetic defender of his party. with the left throwing one low blow after another, he is throwing back. take a look. >> this president has shown he is not whoa he said he was. he claimed he was going to bring everyone together. he's been the most divisive, nasty, negative campaigner this country has ever seen. as far as harry reid, i know you might want to go down that road, i am not going to respond to a dpirt -- dirtyliar who has not presented a single tax report. >> he is a dirty liar? >> i just said it. president obama skoal from medicare to fund obamacare f. any person in this entire debate has blood their hands with regard to medicare, it's barack

obama. >> sean: joining me, the republican national committee chair, reince priebus is with us. i just said it, i mean >> back-track. it is true t. remains true. but we have a real opportunity here to save the american dream and this country. i really think that this president has a problem with the american dream. you know, i don't think parents out there -- democrats and republicans alike are looking for the glass half empty america that barack obama wants to sthl country. that's not what we are. we are going to be aggressive f. they want to punch us, we are going to punch back with brass knuckles. that's what we have to do. >> sean: if there is one thing i have heard consistently from conservatives, things seem to have changed, why isn't -- why are the republicans not fighting back harder? i know they threw a lot of money at you. but there has been a desire -- when you say, okay, this is a

nasty, negative, most divisive, nasty, negative campaign, here's the question -- is that true? >> look at what joe biden said today, with this chains comment and a lot of comments and a lot of the priorities usa ad, which blames mitt romney for the death of someone 6 years after they left the company. i mean, at the end of the day, the only thing shovel ready are the words out of barack obama and joe biden's mouth. i think that we are doing this and the fight we are having, i will speak as the chairman of the republican party, it is not about the future of the party. this is the future of america. this is worth fighting for. we are going to lose this country, unless we turn this economy around this. president hasn't lived a mission. he hasn't fulfilled his promises. as a result of that, we will lose the very idea of this country. >> i think a big mistake was made in 2008. everything was taken off the table. here you have, mitt romney,

being basically called a murderer, a felon, a tax cheat. he hates women, he hastes dogs. he wants dirty air and water and he doesn't like kids with autism and down's syndrome. you are not going to fight back hard? >> of course, we are. rhetorical. you are seeing that. i think you are seeing one of the bests of the rnc and the romney campaign. we're raising the money. we are going to be able to outspend barack obama's campaign toward the last three months of the campaign. they have spent all of their money early. we are spending now -- we are driving the message. i think that the leadership and courage and conviction that mitt romney showed by picking paul ryan tells one really important thing that this election is very different. it is not going to be about just winning an election. this election is going to be about governing like we campaigned -- that's what this country needs? >> there are 49 million

americans in poverty. 47 million americans on food stamps. 25 million americans un- and under-employed. these are not statistics. these are real lives, real people, really suffering. i think we deserve better than a president who said he would bring us together and is running a campaign out of chicago, full of lies and, you know, comments such as the president's running. you know, i don't know where is the decency? i am shocked -- >> well, as critical as i have been -- when you consider what barack obama ran o. i mean, he was going to carpet the world. he was going to bring everybody together. he was going to be different-- heal the planet. >> this operation is one of the most hateful, divisive operationses wee hav ever seen in this country. this president has not laid out the basic promises he made to the american people. he is know a man of his word. we can talk about the economy, jobs and all the issues.

of all the things that i think will undo barack obama, he is not real f. there is something that america's starving for, are real, authebtic people who want to serve this country with a pure heart and make a difference. that's why this medicare debate, how to get the debt and deficits under control, that's why we are going to prevail. we are offering something bigger than what chicago is offering this country. >> sean: let me ask thu. you have a theme to the convention? >> we do. a better future this. country deserves a better future. we don't want another 4 years of this misery. i don't think too many people do. i will tell you, when i grew up in kenosha, wisconsin, my dad was a union electrician. my parents -- like a lot of parents, like a lot of people watching, they didn't point to the beautiful house on the corny and say, look at the lousy people who are successful. my dad said, listen up, pal, if guto school and you work hard,

you are going to live in that house. and mom and dad hope it's a lot bigger than that house. every parent in america want their kid to be successful. for whatever reason this, president is using success, making something from nothing and living the american dream as a negative. that's not what parents want for their kids. >> sean: you are describing my father. from brooklyn. my grandfather came from ireland, $forty in his pocket. fought in world war ii, my father did. buying that $13,000 house a 50 "x" 100 lot. 3 sisters and one bathroom. >> i had one sister. >> sean: three was hard. >> my dad was in the army in ethiopia, they moved to queen, new york, and back to wisconsin. america hangs in the balance. >> sean: good point.

>> we will have a great debate about big solutions to big problems in this country. i think that's what america's starving for. >> sean: keep fighting hard. >> god bless you. >> sean: make sure that governor romney doesn't kill anybody between now -- that's what he is being accused of. >> sean: coming up, paul ryan has a lot of fans and they are not all americans. the v.p. hopeful. see the two images, side by side, that's the president's crowd in 2010 and this is his crowd now. see a problem there? the president and his team does. now he's worried that his popularity's waning. our political panel will weigh in as "hannity" continues.

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>> what they are saying is what everybody knows to be true. he is unfailingly civil. he's substantive and courageous on the budgetary issues. they said these things before the memo came down that they have to viciously attack him as some hateful threat to american seniors, which we are going to hear from-- wait a minute. i was watching this weekend. who -- there is only one candidate who gutted medicare. who is it? >> that's right. cuts on current senior it's. >> sean: [overlapping dialogue] who is counting? >> this shows, they will try to demagogue paul ryan because he wants to make the program more efficient and competitive and have elements of innovation and competition in it, 10 years from now. these are cuts that the president passed to fund another unaffordable entitlement right now. and the best thing that happened today is romney went up with that ad going right at him--

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>> sean: a couple of things have been happening. let's make a crowd comparison here -- yes, we can, obottom achange, change, change. you look at the crowds in the

good old days in 2008 and 2010, versus 2012... what happened? noelle, why the empty seats now? >> i think that people are finally realizing, if you go back and you elect obam/biden, it's like i titanic, you hit it, you back it up, you hit it again. it's what we would be doing, re-electing that stratus. >> sean: i am sure have you an excuse. >>over an excuse. but it's like dating a guy who said-- let me -- [overlapping dialogue] >> this is a really good analogy and i wrote this on my blog. the guy said to me, if tudon't date me, you need me to save yourself. if you don't date me, you are going to be-- wait a minute. how does this -- >> i dumped him. >> sean: explain the analogy. >> but the thing is-- i am not getting it. >> i am trying to tell you. >> romney said, if you continue

on with obama, that's a sinking ship. that's the wrong message. >> sean: i am asking you -- let me show you the pictures. it might help. >> the republicans are talking about misery and hate. >> sean: romney 2008 -- 2012... big crowds. no crowds. what happened? explain what happened? >> i want to hear more about the text i. listen -- >> this is dealing with two ideologies here. have you the dream merchant ticket, which is obama/biden, manufacturing dreams. and then you have the deal-making ticket, which is romney/ryan, they put it in writing and they get it done. >> he's new. he has no record. he has a theme that absolutely captures the mood of the country. and that's not new. he has a record that stinks and he's flailing around, trying to make excuses. the only way he can pull this

out is by destroying the other guy and that's why you have seen this slime fest. >> can't you see a moment with all the negativity and the slimy tactics that they are using that, you know, he's going to say something in a debate with governor romney and romney's going to be a -- to have a reagan moment, well, thru go again. everyone will laugh -- >> how can they defend it anymore? seriously, when you were on with rachel madoff, you can't even defend t. you can't defend the failed policies. >> i agree. okay -- [overlapping dialogue] >> but there are people who are in the middle, like myself -- whether you want to think -- i don't know -- >> i don't like the negative, misery, hateful message -- [overlapping dialogue] >> yeah. >> sean: you mean you don't like obama's hateful, negative message? >> no! both of them. that's what the republican spokesman said on you