the yips. >> just watching me you got the yips. let's not try to be too overly complicated. he's giving a huge speech as we speak right now, and it's at the newspaper editors, the same place that obama spoke yesterday which is going to drive a ton of news coverage. he doesn't have another contest for three weeks. to go and do morning tv this morning when you have a big speech that you want to the dom fate the news, whether you have the yips or not, it would been a waste of time for them to go on morning t vl this morning. >> he's not connecting. he needs to at least have substance and talk about a message that will connect. nothing else is really working for him at this point. >> let's talk about those who -- maybe helping in terms of engendering a case of the yips. here i must cite sarah palin, something that john heilemann has written about extensively. listen to what she said last night regarding her pick for vp. >> top of my list is alan west. i love that he has that is military experience. he is a public servant, willing to se

. >> a sports term brought to my attention today called yipping. is it the yip? >> yips. >> yips, which is when you play ball long enough, then you get nervous and spooked and you can no longer catch the grounders, this is -- i think this is what. happening with mitt romney. he's gotten more scared and apprehensive saying something offmessage or something that will get him critiqued in the media, he doesn't want to talk about anything at all. >> mitt romney needs ann romney what karen santorum did, have fun. >> when is the last time mitt romney had fun? really. think about, what does he do for fun if he goes home and counts his car elevators? he's not a guy who you think -- >> doesn't play with his dog. >> no. i don't want to see him let his hair down. there's an intangible thing, particularly for general elections, right? an an inc. table thing, it gets overanalyzed but it's do you want to have a beer with me thing? >> true. >> it doesn't matter if you drink beer. >> or not. >> george w. bush didn't drink beer. >> right. >> it doesn't matter if you fit the way t

i don't think the people want to listen to a roosevelt or the partisan yipping of a trueman. another occasion he pushed back by saying, what is it that needs to be said? i'm not going to go out there just to listen to my tongue clatter. then finally on one occasion when he did yield he did say, all right, but i'm not going to talk more than 20 minutes. the author also notes eisenhower's legendary for his performances in press conferences. derek lee bart notes that eisenhower was, quote, one of the few leaders in the electronic age who takes delight in his passion for incoherence, which we learned later which was quite calculated and deliberate on his part. however, eisenhower does reflect one problem and that is the noticeable atrophy of constitutional literacy of our chief executives. i think that fled to the judicial branch. in a ler to his brother, milton, eisenhower wrote the following clon quote, you keep harping on the constitution. i should like to point out that the meaning of the constitution is what the supreme court says it is. consequently, no powers are exercised

his friend is roberts yip, a san francisco transplant, a merchant seamen. he had lived in the richmond district for 30 years, owns a house about two blocks away from the senior center. he takes care ofinsun. insun takes medication. robert helps them. he always make sure that he has a chair and makes sure that he has a napkin and silverware. this is how the two men take care of each other. it is a lovely french ship, and it happened in the senior center. that is what your money does. thank you. [applause] >> we have a person from huckleberry house, patrick. i want to tell you, huckleberry house save my family, so i really want you to speak. >> my name is patrick. i am a case manager at huckleberry house, in the fifth district. i am a resident of the first district, so this works out nicely. i want to talk about the cost of living adjustments that we were hearing about. i do not think either one of you were in that committee. to talk about why there are important, i first need to talk about huckleberry house itself. we are an emergency shelter for a 11to 17-y

all because the yip's were chosen for the make over. >> so happy.yeah, it's very nice. >> reporter: wells fargo says this restaurant was one of three businesses in san francisco first selected to be revitalized under this program. and more businesses throughout the following weeks will follow in the bay area. >>> new college graduates are facing bleak job prospects. with the majority either jobless or unemployed. half of all young job seekers with bachelor degrees are struggling to find work. today it shows there's still strong demand in science related jobs. as the u.s. population ages most future openings are in lower skill positions such as home health aid. >>> what caused an explosion and fire at a fast food chain restaurant. >>> there's word of an agreement between the u.s. and afghanistan on just what will happen when troops withdraw. a glimpse of what will happen in 2013. >>> the fog is back and the cool down has started. coming up i'll show you where the fog will be. and the two days we have rainfall on the five day forecast. >>> look at tha

people want to be listening to a roosevelt sounding as if he were one of the apostles or partisan yipping of a truman. another occasion he pushed back by saying what's it that needs to be said? i'm not going to go out there just to listen to my tongue clatter and then finally on one occasion when he did yield he said all right. i'm not going to talk more than 20 minutes. the author also notes eisenhower's legendary for his performance in press conferences. right? ridicule. he notes eisenhower was one of the few national leaders in the electronic age who seems to have taken in close to malicious delight in his capacity for incoherence. which we learned later was calculated and delivered unconscious on his part. eisenhower does illustrate another problem afflicting the modern presidency and that is the noticeable atrophy of literacy in our chief executives. i think in both parties. that's led to the capitulation of the executive branch to the idea of judicial supremacy. in the letter to his brother milton eisenhower wrote the following. quote. you keep harping on the constitution. i should

. >> i think mitt romney has a case of the yips. >> corporations are people, my friend. >> i like being able to fire people who provide services for me. >> $10,000 bet? >> if you don't run, chris christie will be the nominee and we'll lose. we'll lose. we'll lose. >>> joining me now, alex wagner, host of "now with alex wagner," and chris hayes, the host of msnbc's "up with chris hayes." the phrase of the day is "game on." they haven't gone face to face exactly, but they went back to back. the president and romney giving speeches from the same microphone two days in a row. let's start with a clip from how the president got this started. he gave the first speech. let's listen to him on medicare. >> but here's the solution proposed by the republicans in washington. and embraced by most of their candidates for president. instead of being enrolled in medicare when they turn 65, seniors who retire a decade from now would get a voucher. if health care costs rise faster than the amount of the voucher as, by the way, they've been doing for decades, that's too bad. seniors, bear the risk. if the

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you've hit it, you've hit it, that's the very reason they never yipped a word about the golden state, norfleet shouted. and here i should say any dialogue in this book is not invented. this is all quoted from something norfleet has written. so these are his authentic words. it all comes to me now, see? they made a getaway from here the minute they got my money, he conjectured, surely they headed for sunny cal. eliza helped him pack, and within two hours he was on his way to california. this very sinister lead shot him all the way across the plains and deserts to san san bernardi. why? simply because he had to get off the train somewhere, and he decided to work the state from the bottom up. norfleet offered no other explanation as if this one sufficed. it was dusk when he arrived, and the decorations around the town reminded him it was christmas eve. the holiday had fled his mind when he'd had his revelation. as he walked around the neighborhoods imagining the families inside and wondering what his own family was doing back at the ranch, he experienced the first and really the only mom

greg yip is the u.s. economics editor at the economist.ne report does not really spell doom or gloom for the recovery. but how do you look at this report and what other indicators might be out there? >> so i think what is a little bit unsettling about this report is a feeling of day dao vu because both last year and the year before, the year began within robust job growth and petered out as europe's sovereign debt crisis and higher oil prices spilled over into our economy. natural question is, are we seeing a repeat of that. i don't think so, not yet. the reason why the other data we have like the number of people claiming unemployment insurance benefits surveys of factor managers don't show any abrupt slowdown in activity in the last month. some of the strong numbers we had in the last few months were artificially inflated by the fact we had a very warm winter. >> of course, those positive reports, the warm winter, all of that with the exception of rising gasoline prices were contributing to a better approval rating for the president. cle

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