we're speaking with glen ford and with professor michael eric dyson. s author of many books including, "can you hear me now? the inspiration, wisdom, and insight of michael eric dyson." as well as, "making malcolm: the myth and meaning of malcolm x." we will be back with this discussion in a moment. ♪ [music break] >> this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. from charlotte, north carolina, this is "democracy now!" we are breaking with convention: war, peace, and the presidency. we are broadcasting from the democratic master convention, the morning after the last day. we will go to foreign policy. in his speech, president obama touted his foreign policy experience, also saying his opponent wants to "take us back to an era of blustering and blundering that cost america so dearly. >> for all the progress we have made, challenges remain. terrorist plots must be disrupted. europe's crisis must be contained. our commitment to israel's security must not waver, and neither must our pursuit of peace. [applause] the i

georgetown university's michael eric dyson. trish regan, bloomberg television anchor, and host of "street smart" and our own john dickerson. let's talk some politics because this is "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs >> and now from the site of the democratic national convention, face the nation with bob schieffer. >> schieffer: good morning, again. welcome to "face the nation." we are on the floor of the time warner center in charlotte. with us today, former new mexico governor, and maryland governor martin o'malley. governor o'malley, let me just start with you. we come out of the republican convention, and their theme seems to be everybody is disappointed in barack obama. they don't say he's a bad guy. it's like from the requested wizard of ozits" when he said, "i'm not a bad man. i'm just a bad wizard." that seems to be what they're saying about barack obama. how do you handle that? >> look, there were three things that you didn't see at the republican convention. you didn't see any new ideas for creating jobs.

michael eric dyson your piece of wisdom for the week? >> don't know if i have wisdom.- [ inaudible ] when i look at mitt romney he wants to be gulliver and the big guy, but he's really a small person and he scares me because of the bluster and the bravado and gunslinger mentality can lead this country into decline. i hate to sound like a right winger with a left wing bias but i'm scurred and i think that we've got to take our political future in this country seriously. >> we do. stay engaged. thanks to michael, mick, liz and ben. see you monday at noon eastern when joined by martin bashir, the obama campaign's ben he bolt, heather mcghee, wes more and eric baits. find us at facebook.com/now. "andrea mitchell reports" is next. >> good evening, alex. have a good weekend. coming up we'll have the latest on the violent anti-american protests taking place in 11 countries. joining me guests jon huntsman, plus we will learn more about the man behind the anti-muslim video that sparked the chaos and the state of the presidential race with chuck todd, chris alyssa and breaking d

in west palm beach, florida, msnbc politil analyst professor michael eric dyson who we have persued toeave h mojito by the poolside and in washington, political analyst david corn. david, we know mitt romney behind closed doors is quite willing to let all sorts of thorny internatial issues be taye complains of our being at the mercy of events. now, should we assume that given his running of a single olympics in utah he's now qualified to dominate every world nation and make them behave ase'd like tho? >> excuse me, you took what he said today seriously? >> i did. i always do. >> i think that's the problem -- >> i'm sorry. >> as you did, as millions d, you know, those tapes put out last week,ou know, the stuff that he said abo palestinian/israeli crisis was a little overshadowed by the 47% remark which more people could relate to, but it was quite troubling because he was pandering to i think as much an extent as we've ever seen a the nors in that room -- ng to >> vi dav,'r saying it was quite troubling. i thought it was absolutely staggering that a man would stand up two purports to be pre

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giddily, and in charlotte, site of the democratic convention, julian epstein and professor michael eric dysongood afternoon. hog hogan, let me show you a chart of the five worst one-day drops in the history of the dow jones industrial average. four of the top five worst days on wall street occur between september and december 2008. the fifth incidentally was the day trading reopened after 9/11. four years ago this month, john mccain suspended his campaign to head to washington. mitt romney today is enjoying a boat ride at his lake house. so doesn't that indicate that things are better? >> things are obviously worse. and i think the democrats are in a box. >> hogan, sorry, let's stop. we can't continue with obviously worse because at that point, the dow was around 6500. today, it's in excess of 1300, so you're saying that things are obviously worse. >> well, unemployment's obviously higher. i mean, the deficit's obviously higher -- >> okay, stop, hogan. hogan -- >> martin, i'll get to -- >> the employment -- let me just deal with the unemployment figure. 800,000 jobs lost per month at that poi

. >> we're joined by michael eric dyson, julian epstein and my colleague and msnbc contributor joie reedth breaking news. the president has been asked in a special report about mitt romney's attacks on him as an apologist today. take a listen to this. >> there's a broader lesson to be learned here. gov more romney has a tendency to shoot first, aim later. as president, one of the things i've learned, you can't do that. it's important for you to make sure that the statements you make are backed up by the facts and that you've thought through the ramifications before you make them. >> do you think it was irresponsible? >> i'll let the american people judge that. >> shoot first, aims later. that's about it, isn't it? >> well-being i think the president as usual is bei ining magnanomus. first, prayers go out to people serving abroad. this is not just an attack on romney. this is like a fighter in the middle of a ring getting his butt whooped and takes a flailing swing before he goes down. hillary clinton talked about that 3 a.m. phone call. this was mitt romney's 3 a.m. phone call, which he

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us now in new york is my colleague toure, one of the hosts of "the cycle" and in washington michael eric dyson, a professor at georgetown university and an esteemed msnbc political analyst. thank you both. toure, i guess it's be careful what you hope for today. >> sure. look, this is an ideology that's not selling well in terms of being the party of the rich during a recession, right? the brand is losing steam within america. so what do we do? let's depress the number of voters. let's keep people from voting. this has spread since 2008 in republican controlled legislatures. this is why we're -- and we do a disservice to the audience in calling it voter i.d. we should just call it voter suppressi suppression. that's what they're doing. you kind of see the guilt about voter suppression happening in this week when this new -- that the liberal media is spreading false polls went to suppress gop votes. why are they talking about liberals trying to suppress and depress them when they are actually passing laws trying to suppress our votes? >> indeed. in 33 states no less have they attempted this. pro