policies because his policies are reflects so much look at the auto bailout who started it not barack obama george bush look at tarp who started it not barack obama george bush or you continue to have been signed so they exactly so they have to go after him on the personal level to try to bring him down and what they've done is the word i use is the other ring president obama now part of that is a skin color but this is not a book saying that he's a racist his name. a product of a mixed marriage he was not born on the mainland america maybe he wasn't even born in the united states at all he spent time when he was growing up in indonesia he's got a name like a rock hussein obama so they take that and paint him as not like a regular american and not even a regular american you do have never accepted never accepted him as a legitimate president in writing this one this is a not inconsiderable book and there's a there's a lot of really good important stuff in here in writing this book and i'm curious what was the thing that most surprised you. i think it was the koch brothers and how. and by the way the pe

george bush. i i don't think of barack obama. when i ask my friends overseas what do they think when i say united states, that's what they say, barack obama, george bush. when i think of the united states, i think of idaho, florida, i think of arizona. i think you want a man who is a pro poement for state's rights and if nevada should be ruled by the people of nevada, then that's ron paul. i don't think that somebody in washington, d.c. should be telling people from arizona if their laws are right or wrong. i don't think that lawers from new york should be telling people in other states what they should be voting for. i think if you want nevada to make its own laws and stand by them and not have the federal government bring it down, i think that's ron paul. >> hi, my name is bill. we heard about speaker gingrich being a student of history. i think if we were all a student of history, we would realize that we are very quickly heading down the same road as the roman empire did. and i don't want to go down that road. i am sick, sick,

barack obama. what george bush understood is it was all about the independents.he severe conservativism is much too limiting and doesn't address the challenge in the fall which is the 5% or 6% that can go either way. that is the sweet spot he needs to get to. the longer the nomination process lasts the longer it takes to get there. >> chris: we have to go. thank you, panel. see you next week. check out panel plus where our group picks up with the discussion on our website fox news sunday .com and we will post the discussion before noon eastern time. up next, our power player of >>> abraham lincoln was born 203 years ago today. literally thousands of books have been written about one of our greatest presidents the debate continues over the meaning of his life. here is our power player of the week. >> seems much more accessible than washington or jefferson. the born in a log cabin, he embodies the american dream. >> richard nor son smith is talking about america's enduring fascination with abraham lincoln. he is one of the driving forces behind a museum on lincoln'

barack obama. what george bush understood is it was all about the independents.conservativism is much too limiting and doesn't address the challenge in the fall which is the 5% or 6% that can go either way. that is the sweet spot he needs to get to. the longer the nomination process lasts the longer it takes to get there. >> chris: we have to go. thank you, panel. see you next week. check out panel plus where our group picks up with the discussion on our website fox news sunday .com and we will post the discussion before noon eastern time. eastern time. up next, our power player of what's withou? trouble with a car insurance claim. [ dennis ] switch to allstate. their claim service is so good, noit's guaranteed. [ foreman ] so i can trust 'em. unlike rdy. dolr for dollar, nobody protects you like allstate. but my nose is still runny. [ male announcer ] truth is, dayquil doesn't treat that. really? [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus fights your worst cold symptoms, plus it relieves your ruy nose. [ deep breath ] awesome. [ male announcer ] yes, it is. that's the

obama. would you call him a food stamp president? >> well, we're not running against george bush. we're running against baracknd his failed policy. >> if more people went on food stamps under george bush than obama. that is factually incorrect. >> he says more people under president obama. that's why they called him that. when i raised that president bush actually brought more new food stamp recipients than obama. the excuse isn't i just ran something inaccurate. it's that we're not running against him. let me show you who gets food stamps in america. 36% of them are white. 22% african-american. but let's go to the numbers between bush and president obama. under george bush, there were an additional 14.7 million new food stamp recipients. under president obama, there's 500,000 less. 14.2. so clearly not only are they trying to make this inference, like blacks are synonymous with food stamps when it's not true and this president is synonymous. it's not even true. george bush brought far more people on as nigh food stamp recipients than -- >> but reverend, you are tied to facts. what are facts when you are a re

when george bush was in the white house, there are many times that i agreed with george bush on policies and said so. and there are times when i have disagreed with barack obama on policies and i say so. i think george bush was absolutely right on immigration, and it was his conservative right wing talk show hosts that killed his immigration plan. i defy you, wayne, to tell me one good thing ever, ever, ever that rush limbaugh or sean hannity have said about president obama. again, when rush limbaugh says that he only got -- rush limbaugh has said that if he were not -- this is what he said about president obama. if he were not black, he would be a tour guide in hawaii today. that's despicable. he called him a jackass on the air. that's disgusting. sean hannity says that barack obama wouldn't -- he would still like osama bin laden to be alive. what is that based on? nothing. >> bill says don't worry, bill. ed schultz of msnbc called out hannity over the remarks about bin laden. >> he did, and the president with video clips. >> he did. he did a very good job. the other thing about hannity is, and i've got the tape to prove it, well, he didn't show any tape. he

when george bush was in the white house, there were many times i agreed with him on policies. there were times i disagree with barack obamand i say so. george bush was right on immigration. i defy you to tell me one good thing ever that rush limbaugh has says about president obama. rush limbaugh has said that if he were not black, he would be a tour guide in hawaii today. that is despicable. that is disgusting. he said, i have the tape to prove it. he did not show any tape. hannity talked about michelle obama. the tape does not exist. it was a total fabrication and fox news spent hours on it. host: is rush limbaugh a hateful person? casco he says hateful things. he is a -- guest: he says hateful things. he is a successful broadcaster. he says a lot of hateful things. host: why? guest: i think it is because it is his schtick. it brings people to this radio show and they buy products. he is a very successful. i take my hat off to him as a radio talk-show host. nobody is as good as he is. caller: yes, rush limbaugh is a bad guy. what i want to talk about is the energy commission the other day passed a bill and eric cantor pu

senator barack obama back in two thousand and eight tocking about president george w. bush adding four trillion dollars to the debt we've known are over mine trillion dollars over. there but we are going to pay burke. dollars for every man woman and child ok responsible. yeah it sure is only the problem is that obama has added five trillion dollars to it that's in only three years into his term annualized that's almost three times what bush spent we have fifteen trillion dollars in debt national debt what punishment to leaders have if they don't do what they say at the end of the day the political system rewards complacency so to talk solutions let's bring back and karl denninger a blogger and radio host of the market ticker and author of the book leverage how cheap money will destroy the world and karl i'm really curious what incentives at all do politicians have to not lie about things like you know deficit spending an order to get elected and what incentive do they have to do anything about u.s. fiscal problems. absolutely none then what you've seen from barack obama app

george w. bush was in the white house. and if you recall, they suspended the campaign, and george w. bush called a meeting at the white house and called john mccain and barack obama, candidates, in to say, what can we do about this? whatever you say about barack obama, he did not cause the financial meltdown. he wasn't in office at all. he's still trying to dig us out of it. just a sample of where they don't care about the facts anymore. they just throw this crap out there. and you saw these people there, they love it, they stand up, they don't even think. i find it very amusing. back to your question about, look. i was really worried about president obama's re-election. because the economy not moving, coming back as fast, unemployment up 10%. president obama, i didn't think -- he wasn't forceful enough. he was spending too much time again dealing with these republicans. he wasn't putting his message out there. he lost the fight over the debt ceiling, i thought. had to give up and extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest people. i still think he is vulnerable, but the republicans, i think -- i don't want to count my chickens before they hatch, but i think the repub

barack obama. >> yes. two. >> the only two i know. >> okay. we only like multiple choice. don't ever do that again. >> james garfield. >> herbert hoover. >> harry s. truman. ronald reagan. george h.w. bushbill clinton and barack obama. >> next one. >> you're not doing so well. which president was known for his early morning dips nude? john quincy adams, franklin delano roosevelt -- i don't want to see any of these guys naked -- calvin coolidge or lyndon b. johnson. franklin had physical problems. >> i'm going with john quincy adams. >> coolidge because he was a whack job. >> go. john quincy adams! >> naked? >> yes. >> i don't believe it. all right. i don't believe this for a minute. i've never seen anybody who's better with people than you besides me. >> they say if your name is difficult to pronounce you are not favored in work, in your personal life, in school. >> who did you sleep with to get this job? >> ha. here's the thing. when people don't know how to pronounce your name, they don't ever say it because they don't want to be wrong. >> he doesn't care. how's by koda? most people go heeyyyy. >> some people are name injectors. >> both ends, so to speak. hoda and then kotb. you know?

in britain for most of the bush years, my sense is that america has become more popular around the world but the danger to barack obama personally is more popular than georgeh was and the image of america is a more friendly one but the downside of that one of the reasons for that is it doesn't seem as strong a country as perhaps it once was through the foreign policy actions of barack obama. >> i agree. i think that there's a lot to be asked for from this president and i think that's why i am out there. that's why i was in pensacola working for mitt romney because i see -- you know, i see this as a very, very important election. i'm very excited to be backing mitt romney by the way for the first of the reasons would be the most important is that he's a true american. he loves america. and his entire family has always followed the true american way of hard work and success and we're losing that a little bit. >> tell me about mitt romney. you obviously know him quite well. i have interviewed him twice. i would love to interview him again but for some reason -- >> you will. >> he won't come on again. i'm not sure why. have a word with him. i feel frustrated f

george w. bush but barack obama stopped all the positive production decisions that were being made when he camefice and stopped all of this energy exploration. >> greta: i assume that you don't assign the increase for what is going on in iran. tensions are said to have an impact on gasoline prices now. it's something beyond his control. there are some things beyond his control? >> there are always some things beyond the control of the president. we can have an honest conversation about it. the point here, like a lot of chapters in the barack obama book, here is a guy who says a lot of things how he is going to operate moving ahead. one of the thing he said, unlike george w. bush, he was going to get our country to get us energy independence and make the decisions then to get us in a better place today and he hasn't done it. >> greta: i think he was hoping, solar energy, i think that bet wrong on solyndra. >> betting on solyndra and car companies that are in nor way and finland and public go green energy and hasn't gotten gas prices down. the electric car he was talking about. fact of the matter

barack obama. this is a referendum on the obama administration. this is the same thing we faced in 1992 with george bush it's the same thing that walker faced in 80s. when you have this popularity drop a little bit, this is a referendum on him. >> when you're an incumbent, the election for re-elect is a referendum on an administration that's already there? that's perfectly normal. i'm with nikki here, go ahead, continue on this path. each of them is trying to beat the other and being more conservative. the country right now as she said so eloquently is in the middle of this economic crise. that's what they care about and the impetus of adding contraceptive to healthcare is to reduce costs for all americans. you cannot address the economic crisis without addressing the rising cost of healthcare. let's fight the catholic church. >> do you think santorum has a chance -- >> no, i don't. you are seeing discomfort with romney. and. >> because of his religion? >> he doesn't connect. and the fact is people don't quite believe what he believes. he hasn't given conservatives a reason to say, we want to embrace yo

george w. bush did it, barack obama did it after hillary clinton beat him in new hampshire. 'come back from that in florida tonight. >> the can he is do you take the hit and come back stronger or not? thanks so much, george and as we said, a very big night in the race for the nomination. >>> and we move on to a new warning about iran tonight. it's from america's top intelligence official about iran. the director of national intelligence says that iran is changing its game plan, stepping up and spying and more determined than ever to launch an attack on u.s. soil. abc's martha raddatz on the tensions now raised even higher. >> reporter: the saber rattling coming from iran has been constant. warnings to u.s. ships, threats to close down vital oil transit lanes in the strait of hormuz. but today america's top intelligence chief had a new, bracing warning, revealing that iran may be more ready than ever to launch terror attacks inside the united states. >> i think they are, consistent with their outreach elsewhere, they're trying as well to penetrate and engage in this hemispher

george w. bush, barack obama have all done a extraordinary amount of first hand business with the chinese, becauseargue ably the most consequential relationship we have. >> we see the ron paul ads and the rhetoric out of mitt romney who is taking a sharp position to issue. it seems to be more heated than it has been. the pete hoekstra add was past ph phobia, if not full on racism. it seems to have gotten worse. it is more of a, pointed than it has been in the last eight years. >> i agree with that. it's an easy target. look, it's a good way to score points on the campaign trail what most americans do not understand is that china is having their version of an election of year. they are having a big power change this year, and there's dissent, or signs of it within the communist party ranks. they have to stand up and say, and talk about if there's comments like the mitt romney comment. >> to pick up on that good point, it's not only this election they will face, but what is happening inside china and we only see the tip of it, is there are thousands of strikes, each year, growing in intensity. worke

asia, people have a much better feeling about the united states than they did under george bush because barack obamaa superb ambassador for us internationally and going to make some of the greatest moves in terms of our international position in his second term. i disagree with him on some issues and open about that. i think the president knows i strongly believe he is in fin infinitely superior to the crew you were talking about earlier on the republican side and should be re-elected. >> there's no question you're right about him improving the standing of america abroad. the problem given only 25% of americans have passports, most don't realize that and doesn't get any credit for it. >> this is exactly what my book "while america sleeps" is about. we need to have all americans engaged in some sort of citizen diplomacy. we need to encourage americans to go overseas and help connect overseas, whether dairy farmer or violinist or construction worker. we are a large country that could have a great influence improving our relationships abroad. the president has set the stage. my book is mostly about the

that brought down the gold price down to $300 an ounce, what bothers me is that under george bush and now barack obama we have $1700 gold. those are my worries. >> i agree with you there. this is not entirelily barack obama's fault, the eight years under bush were poorly run from a fiscal standpoint i can say and let's not forget the rise in gold began in 2009 and not in -- >> it began in 1971. actually. i had -- he is an american hero. we have >> inflation or not? you think there is? >> yes. >> doesn't sound like you are convinced there's no inflation. >> i said there are things that are turning now that we have to be careful of and one of which is the money supply. >> you are both great. we will do this debate for the 300th time, i love having you both on. get you back soon. now, let's switch to an entirely different discussion. i know there's a lot of optimism about stocks, jobs and the economy. our next guest however is going to rain on this parade. joining me is my great friend gary shilling of gary shilling and company. okay. you still are in the recession catch. >> yeah. >> and let me say befor

the spending let's look at how it's gone ok here's then us senator barack obama back in two thousand and eight president george w. bush adding four trillion dollars to the debt we know now over moen trillion dollars over. there but we are going to pay burke. dollars for every man woman and child ok responsible. unpatriotic yeah it sure is only the problem is that obama has added five trillion dollars to it that's in only three years into his term annualized that's almost three times what bush spent we have fifteen trillion dollars in debt national debt.

about us that's all problems absolutely none then what you've seen from barack obama appears to be an acceleration of what george bush did but in fact he's just following the geometric series that we've done over the last thirty years so we didn't change anything and that's the problem with the end of the day is that this is the nature of geometric functions everybody learns about them in about the eighth grade the united states and yet we all forget about them as soon as we go to public office because you can't buy votes if you don't promise to spend what he's told have it do what he likes higher taxes and at the end of the day the government in our country has never managed to collect more than about twenty percent of g.d.p. in taxes so there is a natural limit as to what you can tax and when you want to spend more than that it shows up in the offices and karl you know i know you've suggested a balanced budget amendment but i have a hard time believing that politicians wouldn't just find some way to get around that when it became too difficult or when it was you know some kind of tough times in the economy that we

barack obama. please start with energy, talk about the uncertainty that is caused by this anti-american, an try domestic drilling policy of barack obama. and when he tries to take credit for george bush'seasures that he took in order to ramp up domestic drilling, we need to call them out on that, too. >> all right, governor. i had a funny feeling that you are going to be a pretty big voice in the whole process. but as always, we appreciate you being with us. governor palin, thanks for being with us tonight. >> thank you so much. >> and coming up, newt beginning said defeating barack obama is, quote, a duty of national security. he will join us coming up next from the campaign trail, and then after abysmal fundraising numbers last month, it is clear even democrats don't think they can afford four more years of this president. ♪ [ male announcer ] aggressive new styling. a more fuel-efficient turbocharged engine. and a completely redesigned interior. ♪ the new c-class with over 2,000 refinements. it's amazing...inside and out. see your authorized mercedes-benz dealer for exceptional offers through mercedes-benz financial services. when the doctor told me that i could smoke for the first

george w. bush, attitudes are pretty well formed about barack obama. there's people who like barack obama and are going to vote for him. and there's people who dislike barack obama and are not going to vote for them. there's a very thin swathe of undecided voters. and their attitudes towards barack obama are probably out of the realm of advertising. what's going on in the economy, and what's going on in the world. and at the margin, how those people can be influenced. there's still people who are going to decide the presidential election in november of 2012 who absolutely haven't tuned in. now i will give an example of the super bowl, not as an advertising example, people only watch the sboechlt uper bowl. if you're someone who's watching the whole season, you've got a favorite team. so everybody now who's paying attention and going on websites and going on msnbc and going on fox and listening to rachel mad dow. at some point, this election is going to be decided like my wife in the super bowl. she only watches the super bowl. at some point this electi

and barack obama is a great sound clip that we should get david axelrod to use for the president's reelection. i'm joe scarborough -- >> i'm not afraid to say that about barack obama and george w. bush said this yesterday. or the day before, that the two of these men together from two different sides of political universe have worked together and both sides hate the other side, but if you're looking from the outside, you have to understand, like the barnicle boys, we divide up, we fight like hell, but once a president walks across that threshold into the oval office, when it comes to national security, forget what they said on the campaign trail because, mike, they get that first -- we were talking about this yesterday, that oh crap briefing. and the second barack obama got that briefing -- >> that's the deal. >> he changed. and he said, i'm going to do what i have to do to protect this country. and i don't understand why the iranians -- i mean the iranians need to see what happened to saddam hussein, osama bin laden, what happened -- what happens to everybody. remember noriega? no, these tyrants end up getting killed when they cross us, and it's going to happen to the iranians if t

barack obama. please start with energy, talk about the uncertainty that is caused by this anti-american, an try domestic drilling policy of barack obama. and when he tries to take credit for george bush's measures that he took in order to ramp up domestic drilling, we need to call them out on that, too. >> all right, governor. i had a funny feeling that you are going to be a pretty big voice in the whole process. but as always, we appreciate you being with us. governor palin, thanks for being with us tonight. >> thank you so much. >> and coming up, newt beginning said defeating barack obama is, quote, a duty of national security. he will join us coming up next from the campaign trail, and then after abysmal fundraising numbers last month, it is clear even democrats don't think they can afford four more years of this president. it's all coming up right here on "hannity." >> with the republican primaries approaching, newt gingrich has been ramping up his attacks not on his rivals, but on president barack obama. >> barack obama is the most dangerous president in modern american history. this administration has intellectually disarmed, it has morally disarmed, it's incapable of describing