he has 80 obamas or 120 one obamas. do you think that has maintained or do you reserve the same thing? >> part of the change we have seen is there are moments pretty recently where that confidence has diminished. i am thinking of the debt crisis. there is inside reporting in the book about the fog the president wasn't that you saw on tv at these press conferences. the guy is so incredibly frustrated with what is happening and aides say that in meetings, he was upset about what happened about the triumph of the tea party and also -- i think has things have changed but over the summer it was hard for it and to deal with the loss of support from 2008 and beginning a campaign that felt so different. aides say he seemed kind of sad. and he felt really misunderstood. i think part of the question for 2012 that we are watching is can he assimilate this and redo the original vision for what the obama presidency was supposed to be is gone now and he has to come up with a kind of affirmative vision of where you wants to take the c

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talk and people about recasting america's global military strategy or just more of the same brok obama's new vision for the pentagon is aimed at saving money while making the u.s. military more lean and mean critics charge this new mission is no different from the one obama inherited from the bush era the u.s. will remain the world's policeman. and. to cross-talk washington's new military strategy i'm joined by matthew rothschild in madison he is the editor of the progressive magazine in los angeles we have christian whiten he is a principal with d.c. international advisory and a former state department senior adviser and in london we crossed to frank jackson he is vice president of uniting for peace all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want but first let's see what mr obama has in mind for the pentagon. in light of budgetary mandates passed by congress last year requiring reduction in overall defense spending president barack obama has announced a new strategic initiative for the american military in contrast to his predecessors the presid

obama makes recess points when congress isn't in recess. what would senator obama think about that? welcome to the journal, editorial report. i'm paul gigo it: one candidate lighter after michele bachmann's departure. the g.o.p. pac blanketed the state. and rick santorum hoping to capitalize on his iowa motor tumult and newt gingrich hoping for a comeback and mitt romney, the double digit lead in the polls there. joining the panel. this week, diary editor, jason riley, assistant editorial page editor, james freeman and dorothy rabinowitz and washington columnist, kim strassel. so, james, is rick santorum the most serious threat so far to mitt romney or not? >> he's a major threat. i think that santorum could win this thing and it hits romney's vulnerabilities. obviously we saw in iowa speaking to the values voters that santorum has the edge there and quickly pivoted to the economy and what you find is a better spending reform plan and better tax cutting plan than mr. romney and as we go to republican primaries and caucuses, that usually does well. >> kim, what about san form's weakn

i would characterize obama as a charismatic version of american exceptionalism. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so silly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture.

obama. the next one is -- it's anthony weiner, 227 goes to herman cain. >> bill: compilation of obama is a democrat and then they added up all the republicans and it was three to one. surely you know, linda. >> 600 people running for president. there is a lot of people to poke fun at. >> bill: someone watching television 18 hours a day as you are forced to do by "the new york post." compare george w. bush and the treatment he received from the comedians to barack obama. there is not even the same ballpark. >> wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. when there is so many republicans running. >> bill: no, just bush against obama. >> okay, bush against obama. no, i disagree. bush was a target. obama is a target. anyone is a target who is in the cat bird seat. >> bill: you think this year, 2012, all right, that barack obama is going to get mocked at the same level that whoever runs against him -- >> -- absolutely. i promise. >> bill: do you want to bet me on that? >> dinner. it will happen.

is barack obama the food stamps president, plus the obama many yeah, they are at it again. the cover of news week is asking why are obama's critics so dumb? you can't even make this stuff up. right on the cover. and a rare television appearance in studio, mark levin. we will get his take on the debates and we will talk about his brand new book, what he calls the unmaking of america, americatopia. nore-proof! oh yes! intense shadowblast from easy, breezy, beautiful covergirl. with less chronic osteoarthritis pain. imagine living your life with less chronic low back pain. imagine you, with less pain. cymbalta can help. cymbalta is fda-approved to manage chronic musculoskeletal pain. one non-narcotic pill a day, every day, can help reduce this pain. tell your doctor right away if your mood worsens, you have unusual changes in mood or behavior or thoughts of suicide. antidepressants can increase these in children, teens, and young adults. cymbalta is not approved for children under 18. people taking maois or thioridazine or with uncontrolled glaucoma should not take cymbalta. t

we have five trillion dollars of obama debt, new deficit debt, new debt from obama, more debt recessionyears and didn't fix it. >> sean: he called george bush unpatriotic and unpatriotic for accumulating $4 trillion in eight years. bill cunningham sewed this program mr. springer that barack obama who got you in trouble was unpatriotic and irresponsible, you would say? >> he is a great president and god bless him. i'm looking forward to the next four years when he is president again. having said that, obviously we are in a recession. obviously, we're in difficult economic times. ideally, it would be great if every american could have a job in the private secretary for, that would be perfect. in a capitalist system which we all three love and benefited very much from, in a capitalist system, every business tries to employ as few people as possible lowest benefits as possible. knowing that the government has to step in when people are unemployed. >> sean: bill, if we took the $5 trillion and he distributed it to the bottom 50% of how holds in america, tens of thousands of dollars per famil

obama is a radical.played that game four years ago it didn't get republicans elected. we played the game trying to tie president obama to bill ayers, reverend wright and saul alinsky. it didn't work last time. >> now with president obama being so devoted to big government, so devoted to income redistribution, income equality, then, see back then we didn't know what we were getting with the president. it was harder to make the case he was a radical or admired radicals. now it's easier to make that case. >> i disagree he is married to this idea. i believe the republicans have misstated that he wants equal outcomes. the president, the stimulus package you went through the numbers before, 40% of that were tax cuts. part of the reason the deficit has gone up that much 40% of the package republicans say they want. tax credits and tax cuts. this isn't big government. this is actually giving tax money back. that's 40% of what the president did in the stimulus package. >> bill: even president obama would admit. i

. >>> what did you call president obama? >> i called him captain schettino, the captain that fled the ship in italy. >> the obama derangement syndrome is going to the new level. >> get the hell out of the united states of america. >> melissa harris-perry and dr. james peterson have reaction. >>> the fight for florida is ending with a flurry. >> conservatives will come together and decide they don't want a massachusetts liberal to be the republican nominee. >> the speaker has been attacking me all over the state in ways that are extraordinary. >> the latest with e.j. dionne. a desperate housewife is knocking a desperate candidate. litt bill burton and joan walsh with the problem with the latino vote. >>> the fight for fairness headed to the floor of the senate. robert reich on today's big news for the buffet rule. >>> good to have you with us tonight. thanks for watching. newt gingrich is taking a pounding in florida. he's been outspent by mitt romney 5-to-1, poll numbers have taken a dive. but even gingrich knows what kind o

obama derangement syndrome is trickling down. remember this photo from last week with arizona governor jan brewer shoving her finger in the president's face? well, she said she felt threatened, but now brewer, you know what she is doing? fundraising off the picture. her pac website pro claims "i was telling him one more year" that is fwhoot she was telling the media. she told the media she felt threatened do people talk like that if they feel threatened? the republican party is creating an alternative reality to bash the president. they say untrue things about the president in a very tasteless manner, analogies to do what? fire up the base. but you see there is one thing about all this, not working on the majority of the american people. president obama's approval rating holy smokes, going up. recent washington post abc news poll shows president obama is now in 53% approval rating. highest approval rating since april of 2010. even right wing pollster rasmussen has president obama at 51% approval rating. these extreme attacks by r

stop blaming obama.dit for turning the economy around. >> why are we fooling around half measures. it's time for everyone to go on food stamps the government can make sure we're not eating more than our fair share. can you buy wine with it? >> you can buy anything you want. >> as long as you are willing to hit the black market first. >> did you know there is a direct core relations between our i.q.s and partisanship? more after this. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> according to a shrink in ontario. racists are racists because they are dumb but stupidity leads to prejudice leading to social conservative. that it offers structure and order that somehow leads to racism. you would say structure and order leads to happiness and success and long life. so are old successful people old racists? so it validates the substance of academics that must be smarter than you and me. imagine taking the equation, low i.q. linked to prejudice and replacing with prejudice with race dating. there are lots of stupid people race dating but sadly

obama how she liked living in the white house. mrs. obama reportedly replied, "don't ask. hell. i can't stand it." both mrs. obama and mrs. bruni deny the first lady ever made the comment. mrs. obama does not like the depiction. >> i guess it's more interesting to imagine this conflicted situation here, a strong woman and -- you know, but that's been an image that people have tried to paint of me since the day barack announced, that i'm some angry black woman. who can write about how i feel? who? what third person can tell me how i feel? >> question, is it normal, or abnormal, for there to be friction between the president's west wing staff and the first lady and her east wing staff? michelle. >> i have absolutely no idea, but what i will tell you, personal opinion, this first couple clearly this is a woman who loves her husband, she's fiercely protective of the presidency of her husband, of their children of her image. i would suspect there would be some friction between the east wing and the west wing, if people are not doing their jobs. >> look, mrs. reagan, quite frank

obama saying obama is not pro israel enough obama's not enough faith in favor of wars so it's like i think that the american people just. but there's but one of the pentagon they don't know what to do and i think if paul were to be elected that's what ron paul signifies you signifies basically hitting the panic button because you're like i want to pull the plug on the computer that has crashed and i have no hope whatsoever of getting out of this mess with anything that resembles a compromise which is what obama had promised in two thousand and eight and that is what the candidates are trying to do is that they're trying to portray themselves as who is the most anti obama who can change the way things are the current course of washington i want to bring up a quote from rick santorum over the weekend way he criticized president obama for for being anti-american he called him an anti-american activity as he says quote this is the most important election of my life this is where america's freedom is at stake i'm asking you to stand up for your honor so who really is the most different he

we all want to beat barack obama.nd it's a-- >> and americans fear more than anything that barack obama get-- >> and if you find that's an issue, i would love to see gingrich debate him, it would be a clear line of demarcatio demarcation. and most the people would love to see them. lincoln douglas style debates. if he's not the nominee we don't get a chance to see that. the governor would expect the attacks on bain capital and his time there to come from president barack obama, and not republicans. it seems in the next week or so it's not going away as an issue and we had governor perry on and he doubled down with very harsh language tonight. will the governor respond to that. >> i think that people understand these are desperate attacks by people desperate to be in the white house. and he has a message what he forsees in the economy. are we going to be an entitlement society 0 are an opportunity society. >> sean: you know what i don't understand. i think there's justifiable anger at wall street and i really do and i

beat obama?rove this message. >> you take out enemies wherever they are. newt gingrich was right. >> i stopped by the conservative principles that he outlined. >> the people in this room feel speaker gingrich is right and i do too. >> i agree with speaker gingrich. i do not think gov. romney's plan is particularly bold. >> newt gingrich was right. >> on "newsmakers" we will hear from the congressman on the results of the south carolina primary as well as what president obama is saying about congress and the future of the payroll tax cut. >> for more resources in the presidential race, use the campaign 2012 website to watch videos on the campaign trail to see what can it is have said on issues important to you, and read the latest from social media sites. [applause] >> republican presidential candidate newt gingrich spent time with reporters saying a vote for him would be the first step in electing the next conservative president. he was joined by his wife. he spoke for about 45 minutes. ♪ [applau

it's not at all certain that that is going to be for obama.at they call the angry white male vote to split off and went with reagan. >> eric: didn't you say the union vote is not certain it will go to obama? >> bob: not by the large overwhelming percentage. >> andrea: you think it depends on nominee, though? right? aren't they anticipating, democrats mitt romney won't get the reagan democrats? that if it were someone different, would he change -- >> bob: i'm not sure about that. i'm saying before you jump on me here, this day i would like to talk about the fact there were fewer people asking for unemployment insurance, biggest drop in six years. 1.6 million jobs created last year. 55,000 in the manufacturerring which is more than happened in other years, including the bush years in one year. i think a lot of good economic news. >> eric: 1.7 million jobs to go to get back to break-even. >> bob: that is right. 1.7 million after the first three months after he came in office. >> dana: i think it was a bad decision from a national security standpo

but you see here is what obama did on the actual day that he signed it after backing off of the veto threat then he went forward and decided to insert into the signing a signing statement a promise a promise that isn't ministration won't allow this to apply to american citizens without trial first so what happened out there in the media world well people just started rejoicing obama defenders started blogging tweeting saying see obama does said that it doesn't apply to american citizens so it's all ok now i don't even know where to start in terms of what a foolish response that is all around but let's just make a few things very clear here no matter what obama does or doesn't do the indefinite military military detention including of american citizens well that part is already enshrined into law he signed the damn bill so even if his administration chooses not to interpret it in that way well then guess what that doesn't stop any future presidents from using it in the exact language that was written it so thanks a lot obama you might promise to be the good guy in this scenario but yo

without michelle obama. the pattern i've always seen in my reporting is that she can-- to other people. and charlie, don't you think we're really going to see that in the 2012 campaign. >> rose: we continue this evening with wade davis, his book is called not silence. the great war, mall ory and the conquest of everests. >> the war became this template of their lives. and it was-- it was in the fiber of their being. and they carry odd i physically to the mountains. >> we conclude this evening with todd buchholz's book is called rush y you need and love the rat race. >> this journey that we're all in as noisy tas s as dangerous, as frustrating is a journey that has extended human life. a hundred years ago you wouldn't have seen there is a rat race a hundred years ago it was simpler. half the population lived on the farm, right. there was-- your cell phone wouldn't interrupt you during dinner, you wouldn't get stuck in traffic. but life expectancy, charlie was 48 years of age. 48 years of age in that simpler n

en la florida, obama aventajarÍa a romney. >> en la florida, obama tendrÍa 52% el apoyo hispano. >> creo pero ahora no voy a pensar en eso. lo importante es ganar la nominaciÓn. >> la presencia de los dos principales candidatos a la nominaciÓn republicana materializan lo que dicen los analistas, es la realidad de la polÍtica actual. la importancia del voto hispano. >> quÉ opiniÓn tienen los electores hispanos acerca del trabajo de barack obama y el congreso? una encuesta de univisiÓn. vamos a conocer algunas cifras desde nuestra pampa interactiva. >> para saber adonde vamos, tenemos que saber en dÓnde estamos parados. el voto latino dependerÁ mucho de la opiniÓn que se tenga del actual gobierno. es muy contrastante. vamos a ver cuÁl es la aprobaciÓn que le dan al presidente barack obama. >> a quien le atribuye la responsabilidad? a bush o obama? >> del contraste tambiÉn serÍa en cuanto a la percepciÓn que se tiene del congreso. ahÍ le va mal en todos lados. >> en cuanto a los partidos polÍticos, vamos a ver quÉ opinan sobre los demÓcratas. esta serÍa la opiniÓn: >> cuando se habla de hos

not obama. mcgain and obama jettisonned their campaigns.helped us try to pass some emergency measures to stop the hemorrhaging. and this president stopped the hemorrhaging and for the last 22 months we've been having private sector job growth, and if we should continue, i think will he get us to where we ought to be. >> i want to show you another figure that we had in the poll, and the question was has the government paid enough, too much, or about right, attention to the needs of blacks, and other minorities? among blacks, 77% say the government has not paid enough attention to the needs of african-americans and other minorities. you still have under the first african-american president three years into his presidency an unemployment rate twice that of whites. is that a hard sell for you? >> no. >> can you explain that? >> no. we don't still have that. we are there many some instances for the first time. the fact of the matter is unemployment for african-americans started to go up dramatically during the bush administration. it went down d

obama gave us radical obama care that was based on romney care. obama's a liberal on social issues. romney once bragged he's even more liberal than ted kennedy on social issues. why would we ever vote for someone who's just like obama when we unite around rick santorum and beat obama. >> i'm rick santorum and i approved this message. >> e.j., i can't think of anything easier than writing anti-romney ads for conservative audiences. but romney is still standing and growing. how is this happening? >> i with wish i could imitate that voice in the ad. it's awesome. you know, i think the problem is, they all had to do all of this a lot earlier. and what you had in iowa was a kind of spontaneous unity among conservatives where they were watching this campaign, that relatively small number of people who vote in the caucuses pay a lot of attention to politics and around the middle of december, they decided that all these other conservatives had been discredited for one reason or another and started rallying to santorum. i think he is the logical guy, the only guy who can probably beat romney

but barack obama. >> sean: let me ask this. speaking of barack obama.paign has been aggressive. an argument can be made maybe it's making some people uncomfortable. end up being a good process because it will be billion dollars that will be waged against you. it will be a billion dollars against the republicans. you want dirty air and dirty water and kids and autism and elderly defending themselves. that is what they said already. i guess, if you get the nomination are you willing to go against president obama. bill ayers fair game. is it just the economy or foreign policy or some of his background that was ignored in 2008 is that legitimate? >> i think anything that is truthful about a is legitimate to discuss in a campaign. there is no question, president obama has a lot of explaining to do. he has failed the american people. he didn't turn the economy around. he didn't get us more safe from iran. he has failed. i will point that out day in and day out. i'm afraid president obama will do what he's been doing is dissenting from the truth and i think am

between bush's policies and obama's. push bush's policy was to kill people. whatever. put them one time. for them information. to kill. kill him all over the world. one another is the targeting drone killing of anwar joachim an american born cleric u.s. drone strikes during obama's first two years in office exceeded the total carried out during bush's tenure president obama described a walky as the leader of external operations for al qaeda in the arabian peninsula human rights groups which voiced international opposition against the bush counterterrorism policies quickly condemned a walkie killing journalist jeremy scahill says obama's policies have drifted far from his political roots a president mccain doing the exact same thing that president obama is doing would have been done now. by a lot of liberals and so we're at one of those dangerous moments in u.s. history and we saw it a bit with clinton in the ninety's where a democrat who campaigned on a pledge to change the you know the country in the world has actually pushed a right wing agenda further forward than a

by obama but more importantly there were no sweeping prosecutions. that was rolling stones at matt taibbi. meanwhile president obama is also looking ahead to november today you spoke about the economy and about his decision to make a recess appointment richard cordray will have the consumer watchdog agency and i think it's safe to say that if the president gets a fight about it it's a fight he gladly have and it's no accident of course that he made this speech today in ohio ohio a battleground state thank you guys folks here in ohio and all the plants that come through. i want you to know. you're the reason why i ran for this office in the first place. you have money well we are still fighting for now a lot of people think things might not go quite as movie as they did for barack obama as they did four years ago where once he clinched the nomination the fire in the passion followed him everywhere he went well arcee correspondent kareen important takes a look at one group of people in this country that maybe growing people who the last time around spe

obama white house, you heard the book about mrs. obama. >> bill: tell me about who ousted daley?i think obama's team led by valerie jarret and said you are not visionary. we need the ship to run. >> bill: are you possible po he was ousted? >> reporter: he wanted to go back to chicago. he didn't like it because he was being undercut at every turn. they were thinking about making him chairman of the campaign. >> bill: so on the record, that daley was ousted but we don't know who is going to take his place. >> jack lew. he a budget guy. he a mechanic. you'll never hear his name. >> bill: i never heard daley's name. i knew he was there. he was announced coming on, did he ever do anything? no. jack lew, whoever that is. >> reporter: this is the time when they are reorienting toward the campaign. it was perfect to get hillary clinton in. they worry it's going to look like desperation. you know this is no drama obama, they don't want that. he is the most popular politician in america. i'm not joking. she is more popular among women than oprah winfrey. >> bill: 65% but how do you see it

obama should be.ith her reenforcing his instincts for the overall of health care and immigration laws casting herself as a foil to aide sz more intent on preserving seats and poll numbers numbers. should obama be more aggressive, more historically transformational president or do what is more practical, protect his power and get done what he can, why wouldn't they have these discussions? >> exactly. >> seems to be the most normal thing in the world. >> the most normal thing in the world, and i'm reading the book now, i haven't finished it, my feeling is i'm so glad she is there, she has his back, and honestly, i think she has our back. she is representing the higher ideals and the transformational goals and values that this president has, that can sometimes get lost in the day-to-day shuffle of politics. she is also a woman who had her own career who is now being kind of shuffled around and told to do this and that, stand there, that is disconcerting there. >> i only want her here, please sit here. i