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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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

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 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

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

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

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

. >>> 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

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 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

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

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

michelle obama angry?takes aim at her critics. >>> president obama tonight back home in chicago raising more money for his campaign's war chest. they believe a team obama more and more that he'll be spending all those millions against mitt romney. our chief white house correspondent jessica yellin has been working her sources and joins us more on the president's emerging strategy. jess, one thing team obama has to be watching closely is all these attacks on mitt romney's tenure as ceo of bane capital. they came up in new hampshire. at least no evidence of impact there. what's the assessment of the obama team? >> well, my sources point to something you just said, john, which is that it came up in only the last 48 hours. and so they argue that that wasn't enough time to necessarily make a dent. maybe a convenient argument, but that's what they're saying. they believe that it will have a lasting impact on mitt romney going into the general election, and something that president obama can build on in the gener

so the idea that the idea president obama or the election of president obama would rid the country of these ills that have been in place for a very long time was at best i would say naÏve. >> i want to read a little bit from your book, get you to expand on. candidate obama, a woman complained to obama in iowa about how inner-city kids don't know how to dress for a job. below is obama's response as reported in the "washington post." pull up your pants, obama interjected come as the crowd laugh. poll of europeans. >> universal that's the other part of the obama affect, which is i don't doubt at all that he has great concern for all the young people in this country, especially young black. however, he has tended at times to be, i wouldn't say demeaning, but to fall into line much like bill cosby, to say that young black people have that kind of played by the rules that would allow them to succeed. in this case, he is suggesting that effect because they wear the pants low or sycophants, that makes it a kind of cultural attributes that would suggest that's the reason why in fact they are u

you will. >> i'm voting for democrats. >> democrats. >> obama, all the way. >> obama. >> obama. this would happen. it's breaking my heart. >> obama. >> don't go breaking my heart. >> obama. >> obama. >> see, this is what i -- anybody here voting republican this year? we got one. we got a live one here. who you voting for? >> mitt romney. >> why? what's your reasons? >> i like his policies. >> how would you describe yourself? right of center, right wing, far right, somewhere near the middle, moderate? >> moderate. >> is mitt romney a moderate? >> tends to be, somewhat. >> is he willing to admit it? >> maybe, i hope. >> how come the other day when i asked if he could say, let them eat cake, i said, can you say that in french, governor, he said, yes, but i won't. why do you think he's afraid to speak french in understand. >> probably because he knows we won't understand what he's saying. >> why won't mitt romney speak french? >> because he doesn't want to speak too french. >> but if he doesn't speak french, does that means he's eli elitist? >> he thinks so. >> so he's speaking down

americans fear obama's reelection.ignificant amount and a lot of people i'm hearing from twitter, e-mail and people i meet every day. they're fearful of another obama term, and all the damage that was done the first time. do you worry, are you concerned about the republicans coming together? at one point you said well, the republicans better listen to ron paul. i agree with ron paul on economic policy, totally disagree with him on foreign policy. do you think if you worry, are you concerned that there's too much damage being done here and that ultimately, the conservatives, tea party members, republicans alike, will unite and somebody won't run third party and the divide the anti-obama vote? >> no, historically we know that primaries are tough battles, especially contested aggressive g.o.p. battles and i think that's fine for the process. no, i'm not worried about afterwards, i know i'm going to put my heart and soul into helping uniform independents and reagan democrats and g.o.p. members to come together and do all t

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

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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

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

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barack obama 50%, newt gingrich 39%.n that same poll, it showed governor romney in a dead even tie with president obama. how do you make that electability argument in the face of those numbers? >> the same way ronald reagan did. ronald reagan in december of '79 was 30 points behind jimmy carter. and he made the case that the candidate with ideas, the candidate with conservative values, the candidate who could articulate and defend his position was in the end going to be the best candidate. the country decided he was right. i think if you look at newt.org and you look at all the things we've developed, i can go toe to toe with president obama on big things. there are big differences. you know, romney care and obama care were this far apart. a pretty big debate. i'm for dramatically lower taxes. the president is for much higher taxes. i'm for less regulation. the president's for more regulation. i'm for strength overseas to defend israel and to defend the united states. the president's for weakness overseas. i think you ca