contributor robert traynham, casey hunt of the associated press is, henry blodget co-founder and editor-in-chief of business insider and author of the maturation of the billionaire boy man. it's friday, it's buzzy ben smith of buzzfeed. at this hour, investors are friending facebook trading at $38. this morning, mark zuckerberg rang the nasdaq opening bell from a huge party at facebook's california hq. the initial public offering is the largest ever for an internet company. it raised $16 billion and valued the company at more than $100 billion. henry, welcome to the show. >> thank you for having me. >> there's lots to talk about as far as the business model here and the valuation. but i thought about this. i'm skipping right ahead to the story of an american company. and sort of what this represents for us. i mean, i think we all watched the big party this morning when zuckerberg rang the bell and it is really the story of mark zuckerberg, the kid who invented this in his dorm room has come full circle. >> it is a great american story especially given the troubles in the economy for the last few

robert traynham, you do not like it? >> i think it's too simplistic.look slogans should be catchy. to me, this is just too easy. and i think when you're running for re-election as president of the united states, it needs to be more substantive. >> was hope more substantive. >> he wasn't the president then. that was a little bit different. it did capture the times that senator obama was running in. i don't know. >> erin mcpike, you said you liked. i put you on the spot. >> it does need to be simplistic so people can tell their neighbor what it is. the backward part of it that mitt romney is just like the bush administration just like republicans in 2008, it's an indictment against that. and forward is the opposite. >> so it connotes the backwardness of bush 43 while at the same time proposing an alternative. >> exactly. >> ari? >> i'm not feeling it. i was saying before that change we can believe in gestured towards a core promise of the obama campaign which is that he was not a normal politician. some people strongly disagree with that, but that's what

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. >> robert traynham is speaking the truth. >> you don't see a lot of publicly traded companies makingl attacks on the president. >> he was playing with fire. this is what happens when is a lot of people have a lot of money and want to play in politics. it's despicable to bring up the president's race and whether he was born in this country or not. he was born in this country. he's just as much an american as anyone else on this stage is. however, it is fair game to talk about his policies. if mickey mouse or joe ricketts wants to talk about that, fine, but to bring in reverend wright, that's character assassination. that's wrong. >> the issue is whether how much joe ricketts knew, how much he co-signed onto the strategy, right? >> something in writing. i don't know. >> and the proposal itself said that there was a meeting in new york where some of his associates signed off on the plan. the "new york times" reported today actually that on wednesday when this he spoke with the fellow that we just watched here, that in fact, no decisions had been made whether or not they were going to go

." >> and joining me today msnbc contributor robert traynham, casey hunt of the associated press is,nsider and author of the maturation of the billionaire boy man. it's friday, it's buzzy ben smith of buzzfeed. at this hour, investors are friending facebook trading at $38. this morning, mark zuckerberg rang the nasdaq opening bell from a huge party at facebook's california hq. the initial public offering is the largest ever for an internet company. it raised $16 billion and valued the company at more than $100 billion.