straight talking john mccain at odds with another republican, double talking john mccain. arted after mccain delighted many of us by reading from a "the wall street journal" editorial on the senate floor, challenging the prevailing logic among many house republicans and calling house tea party republicans hobbits. >> the idea seems to be if the house gop refuses to raise the debt ceiling, default crisis or gradual government shut down will ensue, and the public will turn in mass against barack obama. republican house failed to raise the debt ceiling would somehow escape all the blame. then democrats would have no choice but to pass a balanced budget amendment and reform entitlements, and the tea party hobbits could return to middle earth, having defeated mordor. this is the kind of crack political thinking that turns sharron angle and christine o'donnell into senate nominees. >> sharron angle after a series of late night tweets aimed at senator mccain released a proper statement saying this man campaigned for tea party support in his last re-election, but now throws christi

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and then there was john mccain, he blast the fellow republicans quoting an article that despairaged tea let's get the latest on where things are headed. i think maybe we can tell. joe johns in our washington bureau. joe, any idea when this vote will take place today? >> expecting the vote between 5:00 and 6:00 eastern time. of course that could slip. this is a big moment for john boehner testing his ability to get that somewhat unruly republican majority in the house to go along with him. when he first said there would be a vote a couple days ago, it looked briefly like he was just going to have an open revolt on his hands. actually got so bad that a staffer for one conservative house member was caught openly sending e-mails to a group off the hill asking for help in opposing the bill. almost unheard of. and now although the outlook is much more optimistic for the boehner bill, there is still some conservatives who say they don't like the approach and they won't vote for it. >> this is the first we're hearing of a time. did you just get word, joe? >> yeah, and you have to caution becaus

>>shepard: it sounds like the president could be getting help from a republican ally in john mccain, strangely. very report since the 2008 campaign, he has not been helpful to this white house, but the white house has been trying to make the point that the president has been compromising on issues like taxes, moving to the middle, and they believe the republicans have been held captive to the tea party which is on, having a big rally today on capitol hill, and listen to what john mccain said on the senate floor quoting an editorial from the "wall street journal" on the editorial page. >> the tea party hob its could return to middle earth having defaulted the enemy. this is the kind of crack political thinking that turns sharron angle into g.o.p. senate nominees. the reality is the debt limit will be raised one way or another and the only issue now is with how much fiscal reform and what political fallout. >>reporter: that makes you wonder if it will take an elder statesman of both parties but someone like john mccain on the republican side, who is not in the leadership that has been

even john mccaine suspended his campaign, ran to washington. in had anything to say when he got there but he made a dramatic entry. romney is not even doing that. >> sure. although people would say mccain overplayed his hand by suspending it and overreacting. >> but he reacted. >> to a real serious situation. the strategy mitt romney has is a two-prong strot strategy but it boils down to, he is in a fairly good position to win the republican nomination next year. if he does, then the only major strategy that works for him is, obama's got to lose. he the challenger. obama is the incumbent. obama is going to lose if mitt romney doesn't do anything -- bales barack obama out. so when you are in that situation, the best thing to do in politics, sad to say, is not say anything. if you say something, you're giving people ammunition. >> like, when they took the crucial test, i was absent, teacher. >>> he has a big problem with rick perry. look at rick perry's numbers and he is not even in the race. so before he starts getting ready to choose his running

senator john mccain lashes out at fellow republicans who refused to bend. >> that is not fair. that is not fair to the american people. >> i completely, totally, 100% disagree with senator mccain. >> and if nfl owners and players can compromise, why can washington? -- why can washington not? one-bedroom first, let me brighten up your weekend with more allows it is about the economy. turns out the recession was even worse than we thought and economic growth for the first six months of the year has been the slowest since the recession ended. of course, we have the debt crisis. at the conclusion of the nfl locked up, the owner of the new england patriots at they hope they give a listen to the people in washington because the debt crisis is a lot easier to fix then this deal was. as we put this program to gather at week's end, we are faced with the same problem we had last week -- we do not know how this will end, so let's stop -- let's talk about what has happened. what will happen if congress fails to raise the debt ceiling? >> interest rates would skyrocket on credit cards, on m

we'll ask senator john mccain. and what are representative michelle bachmann's plans? you'll hear from congress woman bachmann, coming up. >>>. >> greta: house republicans scheduled to meet at 10:00 a.m. sharp in washington saying the vote expected tonight was delayed due to lack of support what. is the hold wupt plans? will it pass? we asked senator john mccain if he thinks speaker boehner had enough votes. >> i think he probably does. it's unfortunate, at least in my view that he had such difficulty that, as you know, they're strong feelings and members were elected simply on the single issue of cutting spending and getting our mortgaging of our children and grandchildren's future off of our backs so they felt strongly. and so... to answer your question, i think he probably has votes but i think he may have to change his original proposal some. i believe maybe add balanced budget amendment on it. >> and very hard on them, they ran on that. do they note knot owe it to their constituents to say i'm running on this and push comes to shove, they sort vf to keep their pro

we'll ask senator john mccain. and what are representative michelle bachmann's plans? you'll hear from congress woman bachmann, coming up. >>>. >> greta: house republicans scheduled to meet at 10:00 a.m. sharp in washington saying the vote expected tonight was delayed due to lack of support what. is the hold wupt plans? will it pass? we asked senator john mccain if he thinks speaker boehner had enough votes. >> i think he probably does. it's unfortunate, at least in my view that he had such difficulty that, as you know, they're strong feelings and members were elected simply on the single issue of cutting spending and getting our mortgaging of our children and grandchildren's future off of our backs so they felt strongly. and so... to answer your question, i think he probably has votes but i think he may have to change his original proposal some. i believe maybe add balanced budget amendment on it. >> and very hard on them, they ran on that. do they note knot owe it to their constituents to say i'm running on this and push comes to shove, they sort vf to keep their pro

we'll ask senator john mccain. and what are representative michelle bachmann's plans? you'll hear from congress woman bachmann, coming up. >>>. >> greta: house republicans scheduled to meet at 10:00 a.m. sharp in washington saying the vote expected tonight was delayed due to lack of support what. is the hold wupt plans? will it pass? we asked senator john mccain if he thinks speaker boehner had enough votes. >> i think he probably does. it's unfortunate, at least in my view that he had such difficulty that, as you know, they're strong feelings and members were elected simply on the single issue of cutting spending and getting our mortgaging of our children and grandchildren's future off of our backs so they felt strongly. and so... to answer your question, i think he probably has votes but i think he may have to change his original proposal some. i believe maybe add balanced budget amendment on it. >> and very hard on them, they ran on that. do they note knot owe it to their constituents to say i'm running on this and push comes to shove, they sort vf to keep their pro

country could default and these clowns in washington are using the lord of the rings to say that john mccain is sauron, that is ridiculous, mccain is clearly saru mann. there he is. look, he lights up. he lights up s that not awesome? okay, now you see, saruman is in league with sauron back here, all right. he's in league with sauron who is actually obama, okay. and the hobbit, the hobbits aren't the tea party, the hobbits are cantor-- kantor and boehner, okay, and let's say lieberman just on appearances. and gandalf is the tea party right here, okay. you shall not pass legislation raising the debt ceiling! (cheers and applause) and then mccain is all-- ,-- the cave troll is, i don't foe but it's awesome. let's say nancy pelosi, i don't know. and oh, i also have a pinball machine over there, lord of the rings pinball machine. it's a limited edition and that is the american people. and the american people are really fun, oh, one more thing. and this, of course, is aragon's sword anduril, flame given to me about viggo mortensen. now this has nothing to do with the metaphor. i just want to remi

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minutes ago we were joined from kabul by the ranking republican on the armed forces committee, john mccain. you have been fearful that withdrawing the troops by september of next year is risky to the troops and advances made on the groupd. have you seen or heard anything on your visit there that causes you to rethink that? >> no, basically what i have seen and heard here, both from afghans as well as a number of americans is that it's an unnecessary risk, and it's not recommended by any of the milita military, and i hope it will work out, but it certainly deprives us of the troops that we need for the second fighting season. >> lieutenant general john allen, as you know, is the nominee to be the u.s. commander in afghanistan. he was testifying on capitol hill this week, and i want to play you part of what he said and basically his position is he supports the president's withdrawal plan. here is a little of what he said. >> this reality sends a important message as well as a sense of urgency that afghans must take more responsibility for their security. >> so you have said to follow the lea

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we don't have all the time in the world. >> let's listen to john mccain as he channels froto. he's not really froto here. mccain and long flowing air. >> some members are believing that we can pass a balanced budget amendment to the constitution in this body with the present representation and that is foolish. that is worse than foolish. that is deceiving. many of our constituents, by telling them that just because the majority leader tabled the balanced budget amendment legislation that somehow through amending and debate, we could somehow convince the majority on the other side of the aisle to go along with a balanced budget amendment. that is not fair. that is not fair to the american people to hold out and say we won't agree to raising the debt limit until we pass a balanced budget amendment to the constitution. it's unfair. it's bizarre. maybe some people who have only been in this body for six or seven months or so really believe that. >> all right. the house is expected to vote today on speaker john boehner's plan to raise the debt ceiling. it's after he released an amen

the of the civil rights generation and but at the same time when he was campaigning he said john mccain is going to cut social security or try to privatized social security and i am not going to cut social security or medicare or medicaid and yet this week he's been proposing. cuts into social security medicare and medicaid and today on my radio program senator bernie sanders suggested that there should be a primary challenge against him not necessarily to take him off the ticket but to make him feel like there's some pressure from the left to to move back to that position of protecting the traditional democratic constituency i'm curious your thoughts on. well you know you're probably talking to the wrong person to have been mentioned before i went for a bit of an evolution and i'm no longer just the democrat so you know my position as we often look at the country together and whether you identify yourselves as a perp progressive or as a conservative the president should not be pleasing you on everything well it's here because there are plenty of people this country who don't agree with

that came from senator john mccain.t took a lot of heat from tea party members across the country. sharon angle is one of them. she'll react to that. house republican members meet in private to talk about the debt ceiling bill. the house this recess for the moment. south carolina republican congressman tim scott will be in that meeting. he will be with us before he goes into that meeting. up to now he has been a no. will he change his mind? you will find out right after this. ma where do you go to find a busess backed by the superguarantee®? only& suonline.s®. on your phone. or in the book. go to superpages®. and let the good guys save the day. >> the republican plan is not a solution. as experts say, all too soon we will be back in the midst of partisan raging with our economy being held prisoner by extremists in the republican party led by the tea party. martha: there you have it, calling the tea party extremists. we are awaiting 10:00 a.m. meaning the capitol hill. you can see the live shot on capitol hill. very 10 t

take a listen to john mccain.interesting. >> the tea party could return to middle earth having defeated morador. this is the kind of crack political thinking that turned sharon angle and christine o'donnell into g.o.p. senate nominees. the reality is that the debt limit will be raised one way or another and the only issue now is how -- with how much fiscal reform and what political fallout. >> john mccain saying look both sides, let's cut this out. let's figure it out. jim cooper has spruced a bill that will get everyone's attention. if the country goes into default he says that members of congress won't get their paychecks and won't get the money retroactively if the country comes out of default. maybe that will get their attention. >> shepard: maybe it. will maybe that's the reason for the sirens back there ed henry in the white house lawn. good toe sue. thank you. the nation could lose top notch rating if lawmakers do figure a way out of this crisis which they created. in other words, the damage may already be

earlier in the week, you remember, that john mccain called house republicans hobbitts. >> right. these guys are the grown-ups right now, shall we say, in this whole debate. >> right. yes. >> i think a lot of statesman-like positions have been taken by harry reid and mitch mcconnell on that point. you know what ip to do, i want to go back to the senate floor and listen on what's going on right now, because i think we're all going to get a little bit smarter in the process. >> mrs. feinstein. mr. franken. mrs. gillibrand. >> no. >> mr. graham. >> all right. so what they're doing is a roll call vote on this harry reid proposal to move forward. they need 60 votes in order to break a filibuster. they're not going to get the 60 votes, we're told so, the debate will continue. but they want to keep this harry reid legislation as a framework throughout there in order to -- if, in fact, there's a bigger agreement between the white house, the republicans and the democrats in the house and the senate, they will at least have this electricityive framework to move the process forward and the c

i hope i'm wrong. >> reporter: in kabul republican senators john mccain and lindsey graham called the strategy too risky and say it could put american troops and the plan in jeopardy. the plan calls for pulling out 10,000 troops by the end of this year with another 23,000 gone by the end of next summer. >> i hope that it will work out but it is certainly deprives us of the necessary troops that we need for the second fighting season. >> the obama administration is standing by its plan saying successes on the ground especially the killing of osama bin laden have made it possible. >> al qaeda is under more pressure than at any time since 9/11. >> reporter: still this deadly taliban raid on a hotel in kabul last week shows insurgents aren't willing to go quietly. >> if we don't succeed here and the taliban comes back into power we'll be attacked again. >> reporter: while the debate continues, american troops are carrying on with their mission preparing to hand over security back to the afghan people, the drawdown is set to begin this month. terrell, some initial diplomatic moves have bee

senators are in afghanistan this morning, john mccain, joe lieberman and lindsey graham, they say they're worried president obama's plan to draw down u.s. troops could help the insurgents. joel brown is in washington on that. happy fourth of july, good morning to you. >> happy independence day to you. they say this is a perception problem. the senators believe too many afghans see president obama's plan for a drawdown see this as a sign the u.s. is quitting on afghanistan. they say that perception is a dangerous one. key senators are raising doubts about president obama's withdrawal plan for afghanistan. >> it is an unnecessary risk. >> i really do worry this may have undercut the momentum. i hope i'm wrong. >> reporter: in kabul sunday, republican senators john mccain and lindsey graham called the strategy too risky and say it could put both american troops and the plan in jeopardy. the plan calls for pulling out 10,000 troops by the end of this year with another 23,000 gone by the end of next summer. >> i hope that it will work out but it certainly deprives us of the necessary troops th

i hope i'm wrong. >> reporter: john mccain and lindsey graham said it was risky saying it could put the american troops in jeopardy. the plan calls for pulling out 10,000 troops by the end of this year with another 23,000 gone by next summer. >> i hope it will work out. it is certainly depriving us of the necessary troops we need for the second fighting season. >> reporter: the obama administration is standing by the plan saying success is on the ground, especially with the stilling of osama bin laden. >> al qaeda is under more pressure than at any time since 9/11. >> reporter: still this raid shows insurgents will not go quietly. >> if we don't succeed here and the taliban comes back into power, we will be attacked again. >> reporter: while the debate continues, american troops are going on with their mission, preparing to hand over security to the american people. the drawdown will begin this month. joel brown, cbs news, washington. >>> in the district, the annual 4th of july celebration on the national mall. the concert has stars like matthew morrison and chelsea hightower. . >> it i

he's speaking not just for john mccain. there are a lot saying let's cut this deal and go home. so i think by sunday we will see this plan come together. now, the question as i go back is who will have more leverage. i think already reid and the democrats will have more leverage simply because it's clear whatever boehner does to try to get it through this side of the house, and he may not, he may end up just pulling the plug on it, it's going to be so hard to get through the senate that reid will find republicans to help him. and i think it starts criticalizing on sunday. my guess something is on the president's desk by monday after a lot of house democrats and only about 100 house republicans get this thing over the line. >> and just in the nick of time. incredible night last night, chuck. appreciate you being with us. >> okay. >>> the break down in the house could mean big losses on wall street and beyond. for more on today's trading session, a lot of people watching how all this affects markets, geoff cutmore is live for us in london. >> reporter: good morning. you know the m

senator john mccain had a tough response to the naysayers, especially singling out those freshmen. >> some members are believing that we can pass a balanced budget amendment in this body with its present representation and that is foolish. that is worse than foolish. that is deceiving. many of our constituents. that is not fair. that is not fair to the american people. to hold out and say we won't agree to raising the debt limit until we pass a balanced budget amendment to the constitution. it's unfair, it's bizarre-o. and maybe some people have only been in this body for six or seven months or so really believe that. >> john mccain talking to those kids. up on capitol hill yesterday, members of both parties taking shots at their rival's plan back and forth, clearly staying on message. >> nobody believes that the boehner problem is anything more than a big wet kiss to the right wing and i mean the tea party. that's who i mean. it's too bad his caucus is being run by such a small number of people. >> what about the president's plan? when i asked the president's plan, his aides point to

congress's latest plan is to see how much cash they can get for john mccain on antique road show. >> they excellently crossed the border into mirk? did you hear about that? think about it. things have got son bad in this country that people are only crossing the border now by accident. >>> according to a recent survey, this year kids are receiving an average of 40 cents less under their pillows from the tooth fairy. the economy is so bad even make-bee believe people are feeling the pinch. >> all right. let's go to meteorologist lex draw steel live from atlanta. alexandra is watching tropical storm don. >> good morning. it's the fourth named storm of the season. so let's show you where it is. getting better organize. right now winds at 50 miles per hour. you can see we are seeing gusts to 65 miles per hour. it is moving west-northwest moving at 13 miles per hour. here's what we're going to seem again, you heard ali say expectation is landfall late tonight or early tomorrow morning, should not come ashore as a hurricane. shouldn't make hurricane status at all. the wind should stay in t

member station everybody in the newsroom was telling me on the differences i do not want to get john mccain you know he's going to be really good about this he's got america thinking about the war the rates again success ok success speaking of being loopy speaking. getting a little crazy and bored with this debt debate i think the white house is in on it too so obama has been listening to americans opinions on the debt and. they've been tweeting about it and so the white house in response to a person who was complaining via twitter about how boring this all is they are well on with it they tweeted back sorry to hear that this policy or sorry to hear that you know that you're bored this whole policy is important but it can be dry sometimes so here's something more fun and they post a link to this video. from . the white house rick rolled a twitter follower. you know you imagine if you were the person that was like i got wrecked by the white house i know that should that should be like recorded for posterity somewhere when i was no be on g.m.a. tomorrow yes exactly how did you. grow the white

we'll talk to senator john mccain. how the debt debate affects homeowners. dean reynolds tells us why mortgage rates could skyrocket for millions. a new terror plot against fort hood. bob orr reports a american-born muslim soldier was arrested and admits he was planning an attack. ben tracy on why the cameras that catch you running a red light created a mess in one major city. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> schieffer: good evening, scott's off tonight. i'm bob schieffer. well, republican speaker john boehner's plan to end the debt crisis in grave doubt tonight. conservatives in his own party turned against it and the vote had to be postponed. the house spent most of the afternoon debating the speaker's plan, but just a while ago when it became obvious the votes were not there to pass the measure, the vote was postponed and the house took up legislation to name post offices around the country. nancy cordes is at the capitol tonight. nancy, i don't know what to ask you now except what happens next. >> reporter:

my point was -- i was on the mccain 2000 campaign where the press loved john mccain. >> i know. straight talk. we like that. >> the one thing that -- >> we like the straight part. >> the one thing we hear constantly how skeptical of john mccain. why did the media like so much. >> what he was telling the truth. >> you're laughing at that. >> i had a great time. >> i think michele bachmann would make a great nominee and i hope she sees sarah palin on the ticket. >> you're being ridiculous. >> let me ask you this, you know your party best. you do or i do. is there a chance michele bachmann can be the nominee of the republican party? >> a chance but i think it would be tough. yeah, thz a chance. >> the front-runner? >> romney. >> do you think he'll win? >> no idea. >> how come everybody doesn't like him who knows him? why does huckabee call him something terrible? no salt or -- >> running in a primary. >> mccain wouldn't pick him, he picked palin instead of him. seems these guys don't like him. >> in 2008, i mean, i liked mitt romney, but there's no question that the positions he to

republicans like john mccain called it generational theft.n he passed obama care in the 2010 elections with a referendum on this massive election on the federal government and i think republicans feel like if they hold up the reality, they are 20 million americans unemployed or employeed, that obama is going to be in a weaker position than his historical -- the folks that you held him up against. >> do you take the long-term pressures of this president, as a president he can't afford a hit from the economy. how do you overlap his thinking where he is going to be with what he needs to do today? >> there's no question that they tend to live or die by the economy. there's one big problem, which is elections are compared to propositions and president obama record can't beat him at the polls. a republican has to beat him at the polls. americans are doing better than any specific candidate speaks to the republican field. that's the reality. and that is to some extent. he can say things are getting better than when i got in. people blame the bush ad

sounds like john mccain think his former running mate sarah palin doesn't agree.at she said about the debt ceiling crisis. >> i think this is more obama drama it's being created, the august 2nd deadline that he's insisting america must act on incurring more debt, raising that debt ceiling otherwise we will default. we will not default. >> the hero of the tea party, senator jim demint made the same claim. >> do you think the president of the united states wants a crisis? >> every evidence suggests he does. >> the tea party even wants to ç pretend their supporters were lighting up the phones after president obama asked the american people to call their congressmen on monday night. >> we made the call to light them up, and the house and senate servers crashed. their websites went down, you couldn't get through to them. >> there's another wrench thrown into the debt ceiling debate. the deficit needs to be cut by trillions of dollars. do you think we would be hearing that if republicans hadn't started this drum beat months ago? in a congressional hearing today, the exe

that's what john mccain was doing.ing against the republicans saying basically if there's no balanced budget amendment, forget it, we're not going anything on the debt ceiling. john mccain is not up for re-election for five years. it's fair game to take on the tea party, ali. >> we'll see where that goes today. a lot of sniping between republicans as opposed to between republicans and democrats. there's a rally for progressives on the hill today. what's that about? >> yesterday we saw the tea party types rallying for cut, cap and balance. today it's the progressives out there with progressive senators and members of congress rallying to make sure there's no cuts what so ever to ss, medicare, medicaid, the entitlements. that's what the far left wants. we saw the far right yesterday. ali, you were talking about that crucial vote in the house for john boehner's plan. the big question is does he have the votes? i tell you, i've learned this, tea party groups are calling republicans to make sure they vote against boehner's

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topping the news, a stark now warning to gops from senator john mccain not to repeat a key mistake from the past that led to disaster for republicans. >> rick: also casey anthony right now spending her last hours in jail and no doubt wondering just what she'll find when she gets out. we've got a live report from orlando. >> arthel: amazing story of recovery. some of the nature's most majestic creatures make their way to the big apple. >> rick: we begin with the debt crisis in our nation's capitol. negotiations on hold between president obama and congressional lawmakers today. instead, both sides taking to the air waves making their cases directly to the american people. as an important august 2 deadline fast approaches, molly henneberg is live from washington. hi, molly. so the president is pushing more of his you give a little, i give a little message today. what can you tell us? >> hi, rick. always nice to see you two. republicans are not really buying it, but the president said in his weekly radio address today that since he's willing to include cuts or, quote, reforms, to entitlemen

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. >>> three senators in afghanistan tonight john mccain and lindsey graham and joe lieberman.he senators say they're concerned the plans will undermine afghan morale and make it more difficult to beat back taliban forces. >> i know there is some concern among the afghans about the pace of the beginning of withdrawal of our surge troops. but we have tried to reassure everyone that the commitment that america has made, and the international community has made, to a free and independent afghanistan is strong and steadfast and lasting. >> senator mccain said some areas of afghanistan including kandahar, are definitely safer. >>> the news edge is everywhere at 11:00. a fire at a church sends one firefighter to the hospital and causes thousands of dollars in damage. the firefighter was hurt while batting the flames. flames were seen shooting through the roof. authorities believe it was caused by a lightning strike. >>> a fire gutted a straussberg, virginia church. happened saturday evening. parishers held services on the building's front lawn today. the outside of the building was n

. >> john mccain's reality check for house republicans, particularly those freshmen, as they prepare vote today for john boehner's proposal. seems to have worked as well as the tongue lashing they got from the speaker himself. joining me now is south dakota republican senator john thune. good to see you, senator. thanks so much. we have seen so much drama along the way here but it does look like speaker boehner has the votes and now this is going to end up in your ballpark and there is going to be a motion to table, presumably, from harry reid today. where do we go from here once we get this out of the way? >> we're down to crunch time. we've got to get a solution. the house republicans have consistently put forward plans, they passed a budget on schedule, i might add, something that the senate hasn't done now in over two years. they passed a cut, cap and balance plan. now they are going to pass a boehner plan. so i would hope that we would be able to get votes in the senate for the boehner plan. looks like the president and white house have whipped hard against it and are persuading

. >> in 2008, john mccain could have had $7 billion and he would not have defeated barack obama once the economy crashed in mid-september. obama is the incumbent president. voters are not swayed by the 30-second ad. he has the economy and the foreign policy record. any confident republican makes it referendum on obama. i don't think pure money makes that difference. the obvious point in 2007 at this time, four years ago, hillary clinton outraised barack obama and mitt romney and rudy giuliani both out-raised john mccain. last i looked, hillary clinton was not the nomination in 2008 and neither was giuliani. so in a move of citizen activism, internet ability to discover things beyond the 30-second ad. the focus on the money race, it matters. you have can't broke and rup a good campaign. you can raise money fast if you are michele bachmann, rick perry or ryan, all the people that have not gotten in or just got in, the obsession over who raised more money than someone else is overdone. >> money doesn't matter if you're john mccain who had run before and people knew who he was. it does m