and michael feldman is a democratic strategist. i want to start with michael feldman on this.g ads before. this one beats them. >> yeah, i mean, he used the word. the word to describe this is pathetic. and when he talks about lazy, this is a guy -- rick perry had a shot at the nomination, had a real shot at least contesting mitt romney for the nomination. and lazy is a way to describe his campaign. he doesn't prepare for the debates. he can't name the three federal agencies he wants to eliminate. i think oops is the most memorable campaign line for him. this is a desperate ploy. this guy is trying to appeal to a small subsection of the republican party and trying to revive his campaign with these attacks and was called out on it today. >> let me go to michael steele. who's going to believe the fact that the president of the united states called the american people lazy? who's going to believe that anybody did say something like that? >> a lot of people do believe. you say potato, i say potato. i don't know why we're sitting here acting so surprised that a snippet from a sound

joining me now, democratic strategist michael feldman and republican strategist, john feehery. here. is this -- first of all, i want you to listen to david plouffe, this is on "meet the press," i believe. let's listen. >> i'd make two points about him. one is, he has no core. and you get the sense with mitt romney that, you know, if he thought he -- it was good to say the sky was green and the grass was blue to win an election, he'd say it. >> well, there you have it, john feehery. is that explains to me the strategy. what do you make of it? bring the guy down -- well, bring him down because he lacks no core or no soul, if you will. >> i think the strategy for barack obama has to be, how do i motivate my base and freeze the middle so they don't come out? the only way he can do that -- he's certainly not going to run on his record. the only way he can do that is go hard after mitt romney. the risk for barack obama is if he goes ugly early, it is going to splash up on him and people are going to see right through that. and i think it could really hurt him with independent voters.

michael noibert gets the starting goal. he misses the game with the ankle injury. >> i'm dave feldman, back to you. >>> thanks, the offices were fire bombed, its staff received death threats. that is the not enough to stop a sattire newspaper in france. it's out with a controversial new cover showing a muslim man kissing its editor, after it was targeted for printing a caricature of the prophet mohammad. this week's caption reads love is stronger than hate. you have the news edge. the news is always on www.myfoxdc.com. back here at 10. the news edge at 11. keep it here. tmz on tv is coming up next. ex@