obama finally has a record. he did not have a record when he ran as a candidate in '08. he had a lot of hogwash rhetoric that he spewed about hope and change and now we know what that hope and change represented and it was socialist policies and they aren't working and that's why we see the joblessness and the home mortgage crisis that is really making americans suffer. we see so many problems today that are a result of what obama really represents so we have that advantage today. another advantage that we have is the speech that obama gave yesterday in kansas where he really expressed his ideas, his beliefs in what he means by fundamentally transforming this country into what i believe is a socialist nation. when he says that the alternative to his socialist policies, the free market just doesn't work. it tells us what he really, really means and what he intends to do if he had four more years to do it. >> that was my next question to you because the obama 2008 lofty rhetoric, big crowds, tried to at least portray himself as moderate and people ignored the warning signs

obama. santorum has plenty of great qualities but i don't think he has enough experience to probably beat obama. >> i mean obama was a great organizer. >> he has more experience. >> if the economy is bad. >> if the economy is bad and if we don't increase jobs, they will put someone necessarily the white house. >> they are increasing jobs. the problem is not moving as fast as they would like to. unemployment rate has dropped. >> mark: let's cut to the chase. the dream match-up. assume the polls are correct in iowa, ron paul wins. he comes an impressive second in new hampshire and he has a head wind behind him. ron paul versus obama, what a contest. >> with the newsletter controversy ron paul would not make a good candidate. liberals will run up against him. i have not read it, but have you have anti-semitic remarks and racist remarks. >> mark: he is running against a guy that is fundamentally most anti-israeli president. >> if you read the newsletters, it's really heinous the things that are in there. what is more problematic, what kind of person doesn't know what is in their newsletters letter

has changed in granite state? >> i saw the enthusiasm there. our country can't take four more years of barack obama. the governor's message is resonating with new hampshire voters. they are talking about america and what needs to happen. that we are a land of opportunity. if you think where the president has put us, fewer jobs and all the debt he as accumulated and mitt romney is hitting that message and making sure they know that his administration will have fiscal responsibility and people will get to work. >> mark: i think folks understand his business background. they tend to get worried about other things. you are strong pro-life candidate. you were ten odors had by pro-life organizations. you said just a few months ago, isn't it great that a principled pro-life candidate can win in the northeast. i think it is great but governor romney was a little more equivocal when he ran. he said at one point running for governor in 2002 i will protect and preserve a woman's right to choose. ted kennedy said i will pro-choice. romney is multiple choice. are you persuaded by his conversion. >> i take this is

beat him. >> i'll go back to what i said before, while the republicans tear each other apart, all obama has what he did in the senate. >> will knows obama will have a lot of money. he knows he has the machine behind him, that it's tough to unseat an incumbent. he knows that democrats will do everything they can and drag every voter they can out, and they'll play dirty. he has the bully pulpit. it's going to be very hard. congress has such a low approval rating, he can run against them, but a two-month payroll tax cut extension, the fact that the president thinks this will health department economy, it's a joke. >> why are you calling george will the preeminent voice on the conservative side? >> because i was reading my notes. >> that's wrong. >> okay, eric bolling. >> the conservative talk show host who probably has a bigger audience than george will, and they say, by the way, pick a republican because that's the one that's going to beat obama. >> he wants them to not throw it away, and he's feeling that it's going to be close, a gore/bush thing all over again, republicans that blew it in y

obama has the vision of this country that is not held by anywhere near the majority of people. you realize that barack obama ran for the office in 2008 campaigning what he has done he wouldn't have gotten 30% of the vote, if that. which is i think how liberals have to lie and mischaracterize what they want do and what they stand for. they are minority. a minority of thought but ther not perceived that way. they have the mainstream media with them. the perception is they are much larger bloc than they really are. if you had to single one thing out, it would be obamacare. that sums up everything that is disastrous, destructive about barack obama. if the healthcare bill is not repealed the country will change forever in ways that people can't imagine. it's going to be a massive loss of individual liberty and freedom. once government has control of healthcare and costs involve, they can dictate every aspect the way you live. based on saving money, whether or not you will be treated, worth it to save you if you have a bad disease. it's bad all the way around. people ask me, do you re

obama has the vision of this country that is not held by anywhere near the majority of people. you realize that barack obama ran for the office in 2008 campaigning what he has done he wouldn't have gotten 30% of the vote, if that. which is i think how liberals have to lie and mischaracterize what they want do and what they stand for. they are minority. a minority of thought but ther not perceived that way. they have the mainstream media with them. the perception is they are much larger bloc than they really are. if you had to single one thing out, it would be obamacare. that sums up everything that is disastrous, destructive about barack obama. if the healthcare bill is not repealed the country will change forever in ways that people can't imagine. it's going to be a massive loss of individual liberty and freedom. once government has control of healthcare and costs involve, they can dictate every aspect the way you live. based on saving money, whether or not you will be treated, worth it to save you if you have a bad disease. it's bad all the way around. people ask me, do you re

barack obama has welcomed home soldiers from the war he opposed. all u.s. troops are set to leave iraq by the end of the year. obama marked the end of conflict before servicemen who fought in it. >> i'm proud to finally say these two words -- and i know your families agree -- welcome home. welcome home. >> obama addressed troops at ft. bragg, north carolina. he said u.s. forces are leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant iraq with a representative government elected by its people. obama admitted the war has divide americans from the beginning. >> since then our efforts in iraq have taken many twists and turns. it was a source of great controversy here at home. >> some 1.5 million u.s. soldiers were sent to iraq. 4,500 of them were killed. a japanese business survey shows sentiment is down for the current quarter. ai uchida with more. >> we are seeing a gloomy picture for large manufacturers. the bank of japan's latest tankan survey showed that it turned negative for the first time in six months. the strong yen and eopean debt problems are the mai

obama has welcomed some of them home. >> i'm proud to finally say these two words. and i know your families agree. welcome home. welcome home! >> obama addressed troops at ft. bragg, north carolina. he said u.s. forces are leaving behind a sovereign, stable, and self-reliant iraq with a representative government elected by its people. obama admitted the war has divided americans. >> since then our efforts in iraq have taken many twists and turns. it was the source of great controversy here at home. >> some 1.5 million u.s. soldiers were sent to iraq. 4,500 of them were killed. >>> a japanese business survey shows sentiment is down for the latest quarter. ai uchida with more on that. ai, good morning. >> good morning, catherine. down indeed. that's the first time since june. this just coming in to us. the bank of japan's closely watched tankan quarterly survey says business sentiment among major manufacturers turned negative for the first time in six months. the index stood at minus four points. the central bank says the downturn in confidence reflects the impact of t

and i think that obama has tried to reach out, and i think that the other side is really intransigent. i don't know if there's anything that he could have done differently.

obama has a vision of this country that is not held by anywhere near the majority of people. do you realize barack obama had run for office in 2008, campaigning on what he has done, wouldn't have got 30% of the vote, if that. which is pretty much comenzerate with the way that i think liberals have to run. they have to mischaracterize who they are, what wantr they want to do. they are a minority this this country issue a minority of thought, but they are not perceived that way. they have the mainstream media with thim. the perception is that they are a much larger block than they really are. nuto single out one thing twould be obamacare. i mean, that sums up, i think everything that is disastrous, dangerous, destructive about barack obama, if that health care bill is not reformed, repealed, the country is going to change forever in ways that people cannot imagine. it's going to be a massive loss of individual libertiy and freedom. wonts the government has control of health care and the costs involved, then they can dictate every aspect of the way you live, based on saving money

obama has a vision of this country, but is not held by anywhere near majority of people. do you realize that barack obama had run for office in 2008, campaigning on what he has done. would haven't got 30% the vote. if that. which is commemorate with how liberals have to run. they have to lie and mischaracterize who they are, what they want to do, what they stand for. they are a minority in the country, minority that fought. but they are not received that way. they have the main stream media with them. perception is they are a much larger bloc than they really are. but if you had to single out one thing about obama, it would be obama care. that sums up everything that is disastrous, dangerous. destructive about barack obama. if that healthcare bill is not reformed, repealed, the country will change forever in ways people cannot imagine. it will be a massive loss of the individual liberty and freedom. once the government has control of healthcare and the costs involved, then they can dictate every aspect of the way you live. based on saving money, or how you're treated based

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has obama done anything to impress me. i like the number of vacations he takes. i wish i could take that many he has played ten times the rounds of golf i played this year. but i'm not -- the root of that question is there anything nice. may be perfectly nice people, greta. i'm strictly oriented toward policy. in the area of policy, there is -- i guess obama was honest last december when he acknowledged he had to extend the bush tax cut. lame tux session of congress. if you listen to what obama said a year ago, last december, two different people. last year, we couldn't end the bush tax rate cut because it would be huge tax increase on the middle class. up until then, they said the bush tax cut for rich only. the bush tax it rate production across the board for everybody. obama did not want to get rid of those last year, because he did not want people to have money in the re-election year. they will raise tax on the rich and that's disingenuine. but he was honest last december when he talked about the value of the bush tax cut and the damage caused if they got rid

dress up as whatever you want it's the continuation of giving handouts something of the obama administration has gotten very good out take a look at the obama administration handing out all we can do at the white house. were all the carrots grow the carrots or gummy carrots from the white house garden where they do you know. that they make you set that they try to impose i am not see a right is not a show obama's thing or something like you are these bad for gays it makes you a visa now if you're they are giving away the hypocrisy isis ridiculous i completely agree i mean i think that how we know is the perfect time to teach your kids a lesson and the lesson that i taught my kids was capitalism i had them hire some other kids to go around and get their candy for them and then those kids got one piece of candy while my kids got all the rest of the candy because that's how capitalism works and that there are no welfare cases they're not going to the white house trying to get free candy just ridiculous where the administration is taking this country i don't even recognize it anymore i completely ag

megyn: well, president obama has pointed a finger squarely at wall street for initiating the financial've seen over the past few years, railing against, quote, fat cat ceos. he's just a sample. >> too often we've seen wall street firms violating major anti-fraud laws because the penalties are too weak, and there's no price for being a repeat offender. no more. the financial crisis hit because the irresponsible about of some -- irresponsibility of some on wall street. a strong middle class can only exist in an economy where everyone plays by the same rules from wall street to main street. [cheers and applause] megyn: but we've heard little about the man in front of congress today, jon corzine, former new jersey senator, former new jersey governor and former ceo of a now-bankrupt brokerage firm. more than a billion dollars of investor money is missing from his firm, mf global. and we've heard little or nothing from the administration. is that the right call? joining me now, leslie marshall, a syndicated radio talk show host and fox news contributor, and lars larson, a sindhuated -- syndi

summit onhursday's the crisis, president obama has spoken to on deliver coal to reinforce the message of the need for a long-term message of stability. -- on the euro crisis, president obama has spoken to on the angea merkel. >> the latest drop is the french finance minister rhee. -- stop is the french finance minister. >> we have the same concerns, that is to make sure this crisis of financial nature ends, and to find ways to multiplied our joint efforts so that in the real economy there will be a revival of activity, support for investment, and the creation of jobs. >> timothy that there was cautiously optimistic about the latest grant from france and germany to build a stronger europe. -- timothy geithner was cautiously optimistic about the latest plans from france and germany to build a stronger europe. >> to try to build a stronger architecture for fiscal union coming fiscal compact. >> this is his fourth trip to europe in as many months, an indication of the alarm in washington. for president obama, seen here at the last of it, his political future may be at stake. a still fragi

president obama has the strongest record standing by israel and making sure that the alliance remainsen the united states and israel of any president. $205 million for the iron dome missile defense system which has welcome protected israel from rocket attacks from hezbollah. making sure that we have more than $3 billion in foreign aid provided to israel. helping to rescue the six israelis trapped in the israeli embassy in egypt and then late at night, getting a call from netanyahu asking for his help when the prime minister knew it was only president obama who could call the leap and help get them out. he did and prime minister netanyahu and the israeli leadership was very trankful and appreciative. standing in front of the world at the united nations, throwing the gauntlet down and insisting that the only path to peace wasn't through the palestinian state, but through direct bilateral negotiations and on and on. it's sad and awful that the republican jewish coalition, which is really on organization that puts the love of its party ahead of israel, would aloe to lie and distort this p

president in comet -- president obama has been welcoming back the troops. the u.s. government has held the first auction for the offshore oil rights since the bp oil disaster last year. tens of millions of people in the philippines live in poverty. the country also has one of the highest birth rates in asia. the government now wants to encourage its citizens to have fewer children and putting forth a bill in parliament to provide free contraception. the church is not happy with the bill. a report from manila. >> little daniel o'dowd -- danielle waits for lunch. it is a real struggle. >> often, we have nothing to eat, and when our kids are sick, we have to pawn whenever we have. >> like most filipinos, a committed catholic. but recently, she started to think the unthinkable. >> the priest say contraception is against god's will, but now i think we really need family planning. >> birth control is an expensive. a pack of condoms costs as much as some families earn in one week. so the government has put forth a bill to provide it for free. though the bill is facing power

obama 42. but gingrich has been behind if you look in the past. let's move on to florida. gingrich 44, slight advantage but that's a tie. the one state where gingrich is way behind is an important state, republicans would love to grab back, pennsylvania, obama 48, gingrich 40. in terms of the electability argument, that was one of the biggest drags on newt. if you look at these numbers now, he can puff up a little more i guess. >> as we know, it's an entire political lifetime between now and when the votes would be cast. i would point out and this is why you see republicans, and i do believe independents too, will come behind whoever the republican nominee is because they would rather have somebody right some of the time than the guy in the office who's been wrong all of the time. >> that would be -- that would be fascinating question, would the independent voters who had a bad taste for everybody, including night gingrich come back to newt gingrich or is that long and forgotten? >> i think it depends on which newt gingrich shows up or continues to be here. the newt gingric

obama's competition shaping up with this ploy is really would be worried. well it looks as though according to polls that u.s. has a bronco obama will possibly most likely secure a second term and there are two. candidates that he should be obviously paying much attention to and i would say that would be mitt romney and ron paul because those are the two republican candidates that are leading the polls in iowa where the first us caucus will take place on january third so there is competition for us president barack obama it's not a landslide by any means. but he does at least almost half of the country's approval rating so going into a second term a possible second term that doesn't look so bad but it will be a fierce election one we will be reporting on and paying attention to you in the meantime happy new year's to the both of you guys there in moscow. do as well of course you'll be seated in a couple of. live from new york which as i said to ring in the new year which comes in just under nine zero zero that's right. ok well thing with us now we can cross to boston present inside and pinion from one rock obama'

obama retaliated with a home for holidays video, teaching apostles had to engage the ages. those silly old people. >> my dad is a character. >> my stepmother is life long republican. >> my grandmother hasn so long saying oh barack obama. >> greg: poor thing. how do you change their little minds? badger them on facebook. >> start having a competition with my dad through e-mail. a link the president gave. >> skype. i post articles on the facebook wall. >> one of my dad's favorite ways to communicate with people now is through text message. >> greg: oh! but will this work? >> it didn't take long to get my dad to be on board. i felt like i was changing his mind. >> my grandma is 94. 70-plus years she has been voting republican. recently she said i think i'm going to vote for barack obama. >> greg: oh! but it's not always 100%. parents are slow. like pets. >> still a work in progress. >> being more active. volunteering. >> went from being disinterested to paying attention at debates. >> greg: the left calls this dialogue. to me, this is brainwashing. the same crud you see when offspring join a cult. like all cults if mommy and daddy don't buy into it, they are the freaks. for any kids watch

promises were made during an election campaign and were always hedged in the reality is that not merely has obama refused to abolish it but he has insisted it be expanded and part of the military appropriations act makes it imperative that the military not allocate any funds for the closing of guantanamo quite the contrary these detention centers where people are disappeared have expanded all over the world the most recent exposed being that in rumania but they are ubiquitous and the obama administration and its attorney general eric holder have been in the forefront of expanding the patriot act intensifying these arbitrary martial law provisions it's reflective of the fact that eric holder the attorney general of the united states and close to obama was the representative she key to formally united fruit and dial dole pineapple there were financing to death squads in colombia targeting trade unionists and peasants and people who are opposed to the dictatorship in cocoa in any fashion and not merely that but when the penalties were being considered for the funding of death squads eric holder the

to hear your take i agree i think that on many issues when it comes to civil liberties president obama has been far more extreme even than george w. bush and this is different from of course senator obama senator obama has taken positions that were criticizing the bush administration for going too far look the bush administration for instance asserted the right to detain american citizens and only it was considered a radical notion of the time the obama administration has asserted the right to execute assassinate american citizens without charge and now asserting their rights to codified into law the notion that indefinite detention by the military in the side of the united states is acceptable and on the books statutorily so this is a president who when you look at whether he caved or not that particular issue you have to look at it in the context of his entire record on civil liberties the context of his entire record on civil liberties would suggest that this is the opposite of caving that this is precisely where this white house wanted to end up because it's precisely the direction on

but president obama has already said any measure that includes that oil pipeline is headed for a veto. tara mergener for cbs news, capitol hill. >>> president obama has already said that he is willing to skip his christmas vacation to hawaii until congress comes up with an acceptable agreement. >>> coming up on 9news now, police arrest three students after another hazing incident involving florida a&m band members. >>> good news for people looking too job. more employers say they'll be hiring in the new year. the hiring firm manpower, says 9% of employers will bring on new employees in the first quarter of 2012. that's the highest rate in three years. >>> the survey also shows which fields would do the most hiring. mining is number one on the list followed by hospitality, professional and business services followed by retail. >>> a d.c. initiative to get more residents back to work is in its second phase. d.c. mayor vincent gray launched the one higher campaign back in september. the program encourages local businesses in the d.c. metropolitan area to hire qualified, unemployed d.c. r

suggesting, obama and liberals in general see the society, the wealthiest the same people and always here and the masses are in the middle always struggling and going nowhere. when in fact, america has been a dynamic he society with people moving up and down. i think that republicans have to describe how and why america is much more dynamic than obama is describing it. >> but he could win, seems to me, kim, if he gets the republicans on the run here and making a comparable argument defends capitalism and defends the ability keep what you earn and defends the classic american opportunity. if you make a practical argument that says well, his jobs, he hasn't created enough jobs, i can say run the risk of losing this election. >> you know, that's been one of the republican's problems. for instance, one argument they like to make, it's a good one, is for instance, well, a lot of the wealthy americans that he likes to bash and are in fact, small businesses, i think that resonates with people. and they've got to go beyond it and you've got people eric cantor, a majority leader in the house starting to do that and making the case, we can agree with the president about the situation, the fac

obama has acknowledged that partisan leader, leader of the democratic party as well as being president and he's not paying attention to the republican fight? >> he's paying attention as an observer. he's aware of it. he follows the news. he doesn't watch a lot of tv, i'm sorry, but he does read a lot, and -- and he -- he's fully aware of what's happening in those primaries, and when we get questions from you or i get s questions from the press in this briefing room about charges made by republican presidential candidates, i respond to them if they go to the president's records and his policies. what i'm saying is that we don't spend a lot of time gaming out what outcome we would prefer in the republican process because, as we've seen, you know, it's a -- it's an unpredictable game, right? we don't know who the nominee is going to be and as you pointed out we have one candidate who was nowhere three weeks ago and top of the heap right now so who knows who will be top of the heap in three or four months. >> can i ask you a civics question. is president obama, as well as being commander i

don't think you can say that about newt gingrich i don't think he's got that consistency that barack obama has and then when you when when when the optics of barack obama with a happy family life. and you know a happy marriage that's put up next to you know newt gingrich is history i mean he can say he's a can for you know a change been converted man and whatever he wants to say those optics are not good for newt gingrich ok jenson if i go back to you is newt gingrich really a conservative because i mean reflecting upon which steve just said there i mean you could parse together a liberal newt gingrich if you wanted to if you made the attempt but i mean you know you're involved the tea party movement is he conservative enough for you and you think for the for the rank and file of the movement you're part of. yeah i think he is you know if you look at newt gingrich's history of first of all if you get somebody whose history is long enough if they do anything other than vote present like barack obama did all the time you can create almost any kind of narrative you want for that particular person

president barack obama has signed the defense bill with a price tag of six hundred sixty two billion dollars despite serious reservations by critics over how terror suspects will be handled under its provisions the new law means any person can be detained without charge opponents also say the legislation it gives more authority to the military to detain and interrogate people denying them constitutional rights obama also brought into force the latest round of tough sanctions against iran targeting its central bank in an effort to hamper tehran's ability to fund its nuclear enrichment program author and radio host stephen leatherman says he believes the sanctions could bring war between iran and the u.s. closer. oh obama isn't pure evil he targets dissidents he time gets whistleblowers he's extremely repressive he's going after one country in the middle east after another i use a for a use his problems he is ravaging the world for one country in a time serious and a spotlight now a return to absolutely is on the list and there are others obama simply can't wait to start another war an