obama has a bad ee economy. we. >> charlie:we can included with frank how paid media is shape thg campaign. >> the truth is this election is going to be can decided by the main stream, people dead center who believe in a right of center economic approach and leave us alone on social issues. they're closer to barack obama on social and closer to mitt romney on economic issues. so they're torn. >> there's a difference betweend actually said, i don't care. i will follow this on election day that's it. the problem is neither candidate is speaking to them in the way they want to be spoken to or talking to them, the words that they want to hear. >> charlie:march inas balances and tee i don't know and frank when we continue. >> funding provided by the following. >> charlie:additionalg provided by that's funders: >> c captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. the special edition of charlie rose. >> this evening we continue our coverage of the democratic national

his name is barack obama. i know this sounds odd, but i had this strange feeling he could be president of the united states some day. i always joke, now i take betty lou to the track with me whenever i go. >> when obama ran in 2004 for the united states senate, david axelrod signed on as his media adviser. the little-known candidate with the unusual name, defeated a half dozen rivals to win the democratic nomination. >> thank you. >> obama's come-from-behind victory won him wide attention. he soon got a call to deliver the keynote at the democratic national convention. >> and as soon as he hung up he said i know what i want to say. i want to wrap my story in the larger american story and for the next three weeks, he was writing on little scraps of paper wherever he went in between campaign stops. then he pulled it altogether. >> the pundits like to slice and dice our country into red states and blue states, red states for republicans, blue states for democrats, but i've got news for them too, we worship an awe

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obama recently in david maraniss's book about obama he names a girl who dated obama, claims she was the girlfriend that obama refers to in his own book but their stories don't match. when meredith went to obama obama said i had lots of girlfriends which is interesting because none of them have come ford. no journalist has interviewed many of them. this is a man with many black holes in his biography. i think this is the result -- when we were doing our film we would be in hawaii and indonesia and talked to people related to the obamas and knew his dad and his mom and a new young obama and i asked when rio interviewed and we have never been interviewed. no one has been down here so incredibly this is the biggest story in america and being truly uncovered in the mainstream press. it is a little bit of the scandal and not good for our democratic politics. not just the liberal media. the liberal media was tough on clinton and carter. there's another factor going on that leads people in the press not only to not cover obama but when incriminating information surfaces to try to squelch it can

bill clinton makes the case for barack obama's reelection better than barack obama does. clinton is the best simplifier and best explainer in the business. and he just knocked down republican policy points from a democratic perspective. and he built the case for barack obama. he said... look. no president, not me, no other president could have gotten us out of this hole in just four years. and i thought waits very effective, kind of long speech. >> kind of long but that is always a little bit kind of long. amy? >> well, he said no president, none of-none of my predecessor koz have undid damage in just four years. he said he believed witness all of his heart. a agree if barack obama had sat down to write the speech he wanted bill clinton to deliver to endors him, he wouldn't have written a better one. he went over every republican tack rebutting nem detail. he also told these democrats in this hall and kept referring to people watching at home that these where the same economic policies he governed with just in a different set of circumstances. he said i remember when they

obama's record or his own? those reports upcoming. >> in the campaign 2012 segment tonight, president obama ramping up re-election bid. speaking today in toledo, ohio, he said this: >> despite all the challenges that we face in this new century, we saw three straight days of an agenda out of the last century. it was a re-run. you as well as watched it on black and white tv. [ laughter ] with some rabbit ears on there. [cheers] should have been on nic at night. >> the question: will this new stump speech message resonate with american voters? here now the republic leader of the new jersey assembly, john brahmnic and from charlotte, north carolina, executive director of the young democrats of america. welcome, guys. thank you for being here. emily. >> thank you. >> let me start with you, because i am looking at the speaker's run down for the dnc, i see a president from 35 years ago jimmy carter. i see a president from 20 years ago, bill clinton. i also see biden, pelosi, and reid who have been in washington since

barack obama. it's about policies and-- >>> i tell what you i think, this comes down to hundreds of thousands fewer americans working and $5.4 trillion in debt. gas prices are up. the economy's going to drive the election. >> i hope he will get -- style. >> sean: i have to say goodbye. we are going to listen in now. we have a lot more coming up from charlotte. but here's health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius and she delivers her address right here in charlotte. >> 1965 to 1967, my dad served in congress and helped pass landmark laws like the voting rights act. dad later became another great governor of ohio. but one of his proudest accomplishments was when, as a congressman, he helped to draft and pass medicare. today dad's 91 and he's a happy beneficiary of that effort to bring quality health care to every senior citizen. president obama is building on that legacy by bringing quality and secure health care to every american. i was governor of kansas when mitt romney was governor of

obama. you know, we had a very difficult moment in 2008. it was two wonderful incredible candidates fighting against each other, they came together and they're still together and tonight bill clinton once again validated president obama as someone who is up to the job and getting america back on -- >> they're not hanging out tonight having a beer together. they've gone their separate ways. >> it depends on the recipe, as you know. >> i agree, i think bill clinton is an incredibly skillful and fantastic storyteller. he told a story in that clip. all the problems were caud by the republicans for the last eight years, it was bill clinton that signed financial deregulati deregulation. it was democrats who stood in opposition to reigning in fannie mae and freddie mac which helped create the mortgage crisis. so he told a great story. the problem is, he used some facts that helped him, and ignored some facts that didn't help him, it was vintage clinton, it was great to watch. it was a great story.

obama's record or his own. joining me now from charlotte to analyze bernard whitman a former pollster for president bill clinton and the author of the new book "52 reasons to vote for obama." let's talk about if this in fact is what team obama is reduced to. they can't run on their own economy so they are essentially saying pay no attention to the obama economy, but check out the clinton economy from 20 years ago. is that about right? >> monica, no surprise. i completely disagree with you. we don't hide from our presidents, we showcase them there is a reason for that the fact is bill clinton in addition to remaining incredibly popular both men and women, whites, people of color, across all age groups, a lot of the republicans, a lot of independents, a lot of moderates like him a lot. they liked his economic record which created 26 million jobs and they understood that bill clinton's vision of shared prosperity is the same vision that barack obama has which is why barack obama is trying to get back to the clinto

thank you, president obama. president obama did all this and much, much more in spite of a republican party that said it's number one goal wasn't to solve any of these problems. they said the number one goal was to stop barack obama. think about this, ladies and gentlemen, in the middle of one of greatest crisis in american history they sat on their hands and play politics. look, i was raised a republican, but i don't recognize a once proud party hijacked by extremists who driven it off the flat ernl they pretend we're living on. they spent eight years creating a colossal mess, and the last four doing almost nothing except, of course, trying to blame it on president obama. hey, pyromantic -- pyromaniacs shouldn't blame the firefighters. now mitt romney wants to go back to the bad old days that got us into this mess. he would give up everything that creates opportunity for the middle class just to pay for the massive tax breaks for those who are already very, very comfortable. romney's message is clear: in tough

that what michelle obama and julian castro are saying that barack obama and the democrats are more like you than the republicans? >> look, there's no question, republicans are saying let's go back to trickle-down politics. michelle said let's grow the economy from the middle. middle class families, working class families, that's how we get america back on the road to prosperity. >> that's the new deal kind of strategy. they wanted to get democrats to jump to their feet, you talk about lifestyle, contraception, abortion, that's the three subjects tha

among obama supporters, 74% say their vote is more for obama. two-thirds say their vote is mainly against romney. just two-thirds. 23%. among romney voters, look at this number, how even it is, 48% say their vote is for romney, 47% say their vote is more against obama. nia, when you cover this campaign, can you see that in the crowds, this -- i see it every time i hear an attack on the president, i hear the republicans screeching in pleasurable anger. and then every time they say something about romney, it's sort of dutiful to exciting, somewhere in the middle there. >> i think you saw that on display in the conventions. even when you go to the rallies, there is an emotional attachment that obama supporters have towards this president. they linger after he's done. they cheer, they wear the old t-shirts from 2008 and they buy buttons, and i think at the romney events, it's just not the same. they obviously boo when there's mention of obama care, but they don't linger in the same way and there doesn't seem to be just a love and adoration for mitt

juegan un papel clave en las elecciones, ann romney dio a conocer el lado humano de su esposo y michelle obama habla de por qué su esposo sería un buen pistola presidente otra vez, tenemos la nf información >>> nancy pelossi es de las mujeres más poderosas de estados unidos, en una entrevista con maría elena salinas explica por qué el presidente barack obama no pudo presentar una reforma migratoria el priemr año >>> el alcalde de la ciudad de méxico, no es el mismo que enrique peña nieto. >>> aquí en el programa tenemos el anuncio que no dejaron pasar por la televisión de venezuela, hablamos con freddy guevara, el joven detrás de la controversia, comenzamos ♪. >>> vamos al punto con jorge ramos ♪. >>> vamos al punto, es la semana que el presidente barack obama y los demócratas pidieron una segunda oportunidad, por problemas con el clima el presidente barack obama no habló en un estadio con más de 70 mil personas, pero lo hizo en charlotte carolina del norte, donde explicó por qué quiere ser presidene hasta el 2016. >>> ahora no pretendo dar a entender que la ruta es fácil

and as taxes going up as they will under barack obama and obama care, we know we paid, way, way too much. florida senator marco rubio spoke eloquently about being the son of immigrants who came to the country chasing the american dream. >> i noticed a bartender behind the portable bar in back of the ball room and i remember my father who worked many years as a banquet bartender. he was grateful for the work he h. that was not the life he wanted for us. he stood behind the bar in the back of the room all of those years so one day i could stand behind the podium in front of the room. [applause] >> it was a powerful speech by marco rubio who is my very favorite rising stars of the republican party and i said for a number of years, keep your eyeos this guy. what he said what so many of us live feel. we grew up in a time when our parents who didn't have much wished and dreamed and hope prayed their kids would have a better life. our parents lived here and dreamed we would live here and most of us have done that. for the first time in american history parents are living here and fearful that t

his name is barack obama. i know this sounds odd, but i just had this strange feeling he could be president of the united states someday and i always joke that he was at the track with me whenever i go. >> when obama ran in 2004 for the united states senate, david axelrod signed on as his media adviser. the little known candidate with the unusual name defeated a half dozen rivals to win the democratic nomination. >> thank you! >> obama's come from behind victory won him wide taepattent. he soon got a call to deliver the keynote at the democratic national convention. >> as soon as he hung up, he said, i know what i want to sayment i want to wrap up my story in the american story. for the next three weeks, he was writing on little pieces of paper and he pulled it all together. >> in the red states and blue stalts, red states for republicans, blue states for democrats. i've got news for him, too. we were an awesome guy in the blue states and we don't like federal agents poking around in our libraries in the red s

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, and he did do a good job of making obama the center of attention, a referendum on obama. we know now especially now that medicare is on the table this is no longer a referendum on obama, it is a comparison. if obama hasn't done the job can mitt romney do the job any better? he did not make that case. people are saying he is well organized, a nice guy, still kind of comes off like i.e. makes don draper look like elton john, you know? he helped that image and his wife really helped him. >> mitt romney talks about his experience starting bain and the companies bain capital invested in. >> some of the companies we helped start you know and have heard from tonight. an office company called staples where i'm pleased to see the obama campaign has been shopping. [ applause ] >> the sports authority, which of course became a favorite of my boys. we helped start an early childhood learning company called bright horizons that first lady michelle obama rightly praised. at a time when nobody thought we'd ever see a new steel mill built in america we took a chance and built one in a co

president obama and the democrats ab we'll be exactly what would a second obama term look li. we've got some ideas and with the conventions behinds us, the real fun begins, where the candidates stand as we head into the fall campaign. >> i'm asking you to rally around a set of goals, education, manufacturing national security and the deficit. reasonable plans that will lead to new jobs and we bring this economy on a stronger foundation. that's what we can do in the next four years and that's why i'm running for a second term as president of the united states. . >> paul: welcome to the journal editorial report. i'm paul gigot, that was president barack obama making his case in charlotte, north carolina for a second term in the white house. with another disappointing jobs report released just hours after his speaking, and unemployment above 8% for the 43rd month in a row, did the president get the job done? joining the panel this week, wall street journal columnist den henninger. jason riley, editor james freeman and washington columnist kim strassel. jason, let's start with you

obama is for the middle class. romney is not for the middle class. >> mitt romney is the candidate of the one percent. >> barack obama has been the leader of the occupy wall street movement. he's using the very same rhetoric that those fanatics that were protesting in front of wall street were using. it's the top 1 percent verses the 99 percent. if only the one percent didn't have all of the money then all of us would be doing better. >> what would happen to romney. >> the occupy guys have it all wrong. they were in about class warfare and envy and taking from others. the american dream isn't you are entitle to do your neighbor's property the american dream is if you can work hard your children can do even better than you have done. every generation wants that for our children. >> with the days ticking away toward the election the important question is is it working? there is evidence that it is not. the democratic think tank third way polled independent voters in battle ground states and found they don't buy the t

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president obama and the democrats ab we'll be exactly what would a second obama term look like. we've got some ideas and with the conventions behinds us, the real fun begins, where the candidates stand as we head into the fall campaign. >> i'm asking you to rally around a set of goals, education, manufacturing national security and the deficit. reasonable plans that will lead to new jobs and we bring this economy on a stronger foundation. that's what we can do in the next four years and that's why i'm running for a second term as president of the united states. . >> paul: welcome to the journal editorial report. i'm paul gigot, that was president barack obama making his case in charlotte, north carolina for a second term in the white house. with another disappointing jobs report released just hours after his speaking, and unemployment above 8% for the 43rd month in a row, did the president get the job done? joining the panel this week, wall street journal columnist den henninger. jason riley, editor james freeman and washington columnist kim strassel. jason, let's start with you

but politically, this will help obama. you already saw the stock market, seeing all this new money. >> right. >> come pouring in. >> right. >> and where does the money go? it starts chasing commodities and things like that. it could drive the market up, it is going up hundreds of points and that is clearly going to help barack obama with a huge part of that 1% and 10% that he is not so well off with. >> employment is the real issue. will this help employment? >> we know that already. in the short-term no. >> i think that is politically much more significant. this will help the op ticks -- optics, doesn't make the labor force participation any better. three and a half years after the recession this economy is still held together with wire and duct tape. the recession ended before most of the stimulus had a chance to kick in. >> you understand the morale of the country is low? >> yes. >> this is bound to have some elevating effect on the morale. >> i don't know. i think most people. >> the overall feeling. >> most look at th

vote for president obama. i'm lauren green, now back to greta. >> your news president could be a man, who stands by one of public figures tries to silence a private citizen. with hateful slurs. a man who won stand for those slurs or negative voices in his own party. we know what this america would like like. and in a few short months that is the america we could be. but that is not the america that we should be. and it's not who we are. >> that was the georgetown law school graduate who landed in the middle of the nation's contraceptive debate. and now, the controversy over insurance coverage of birth control. our political panel is here. there is amy stod yard and let's go to amy stod yard. is there a war or women? >> i don't know but democrats have been talking about it six months or more since the primary republican primary in the winter when rick santorum shook the rhetoric off the deep end about contraception and started what was a big broad narrative for democrats that now extended the definition of clas

it rattled obama. he said clinton has taken his advocacy on behalf of his wife to a level that is troubling. clearly the relationship has been bumpy along the way? >> it was bumpy in 2008. during that campaign. look a lot of has happened and a lot has changed since then. it's probably, it was a humbling moment or a moment of humility for this president to say that he needed some help from president clinton. if the economy was going better, if things were fine, i don't think we would see president clinton on this stage on bed night. look, he wants to win. i think that he decided on his own that he needed to recruit the strongest star in the party. that is bill clinton. so we've seen advertisements playing in battleground states from president clinton. that is snapshot what i'm told we're going to hear on wednesday night. he is trying to inspire some of those people who long for the days of clinton but he is also trying to amplify this message that president obama hats struggled with, if you elect mitt r

president obama. president obama understands women. he trusts women carried on every single issue that matters to us, he stands for women. president obama ensures that women's health care will be covered with snow cope in a matter where we work. [applause] because of president obama, soon, women will not be denied insurance coverage because we have had breast cancer or survive sexual assault. and, we know lager will have to pay more than men for the exact same health insurance. thanks to president obama, being a woman is no longer a pre- existing condition in america. [applause] that is right. back in texas, that's it -- back in texas, back in texas, we say, you dance with them is to run you. president obama brought women into this place and we are staying with them all from november. -- with him all throughout november. 24 years ago, my mother, the former texas governor -- [applause] thank you. she reminded us how far we have come. and that there was a time when both cabinets drank from separate water fountains. when kids were punishe

thank you, president obama. an asses ancestral home of the first people of alaska. >> i spent half my life covering bill clinton. love him or not, and there are a lot of people in the not column. he was a polarizing guy when he left office. he's redeemed himself a bit in the post-presidency. love him or not, he's unique. as david said, in his generation, he's unique. there is nobody like him. like every clinton speech, it could use an editor. but like every clinton speech, it was aimed like hammer on nail what he views the problem. remember, he used to be fond of telling you -- he calls me johnny, i call him governor -- i was george mcgovern's campaign manager, this and that, and what did he do? a direct appeal to young voters. he knows the problems president obama faces as the electorate, and he went at it like a campaign manager. the question is can he move votes? alex says lock the doors. i'm not so sure just in the sense of there is such a tiny slice of the electorate out there that is movable, are they goin

obama. we had a very difficult moment in 2008. there were two wonderful, credible candidates fighting against each other. they came together and they are still together. bill clinton, once again, validated president obama who is someone who is up to the job and getting america back on track. >> they're probably not hanging out together having a beer after this. they've gone their separate ways. >> it depends on the recipe as you well know. >> carly fiorina? >> i agree. i think bill clinton is an incredibly skillful and fantastic storyteller. we heard a story in that clip that you played. his story was all the problems were caused by republicans for the last eight years. it was bill clinton that seened financial deregulation, democrats who sat and stood in opposition to reigning in fannie mae and freddie mac, which helped create the mortgage crisis. he told a great story. problem is he used some facts that helped him and ignored some facts that didn't help him. it was vintage clinton, great t

si no se aprobaba dijo obama, el desempleo subÍa del 8%. luego se aprobÓ una cantidad de dinero enorme, el desempleo estuvo a mÁs de 8% por 4, por 3 aÑos y medio, eso demuestra que el presidente obama tiene buenas intenciones, pero no sabe lo que estÁ haciendo a la economÍa. >>> vamos al tema migratoria, gobernador richardson quÉ proponen demÓcratas distinto a los republicanos? >>> bueno. es una diferencia enorme. nosotros proponemos una inmigraciÓn comprensiva, donde haya una legalizaciÓn de los doce millones de inmigrantes que estÁn en estados unidos, sÍ tenemos que incrementar la seguridad en la frontera. pues ademÁs de eso, tenemos una propuesta el dream act que permite por ejemplo a soldados, a hijos de inmigrantes de ir a la universidad, legalizarce, el presidente obama parÓ deportaciones de jovencitos, mÁs de un millÓn. pero ademÁs de eso, lo que proponemos es tener inclusiones en el gobierno americano, por ejemplo aquÍ en charlotte, el presidente de la convenciÓn es un hispano, el alcalde de los Ángeles. el que va

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obama did. that was a hard-fought race. and this is still quite a psycho drama between the two men. politics, politicos and reporters picking over every sign of any sort of a crack in their solid relationship, that they'd like to portray. but right tonight, we're expecting a very strong endorsement for barack obama and his economic principles from the former president bill clinton. >> let's head across the arena now, jake, to jon karl. jon, look around, tell us about the delegates around you. and tell us what you think the most important thing bill clinton has to do tonight for them. >> well, i'll tell you i've been talking to a lot of the delegates around here. and one the things i've heard over and over again is about that primary four years ago. it's ancient history. it's something that somebody who worked very hard for hillary clinton told me. now, we're all on board. you can see phenomenal dress down here. these delegates are fired up, diane. i've got to tell you, they are fired. there's no

obama is for the middle class. romney is not for the middle class. >> mitt romney is the candidate of the one percent. >> barack obama has been the leader of the occupy wall street movement. he's using the very same rhetoric that those fanatics that were protesting in front of wall street were using. it's the top 1 percent verses the 99 percent. if only the one percent didn't have all of the money then all of us would be doing better. >> what would happen to romney. >> the occupy guys have it all wrong. they were in about class warfare and envy and taking from others. the american dream isn't you are entitle to do your neighbor's property the american dream is if you can work hard your children can do even better than you have done. every generation wants that for our children. >> with the days ticking away toward the election the important question is is it working? there is evidence that it is not. the democratic think tank third way polled independent voters in battle ground states and found they don't buy the t

obama has his. more subsidies and regulation, tax breaks for the middle class, more taxes for the rich, but both of them act as if you can act autonomously in the world, as if this can be done in the absence of an interdependent fiscal policy, and this is a blunt reality. it is not an ideology. it does not serve the democrats or the republicans. the economy is interdependent, and we need policies like that. we do not have them. tavis: it is understandable, given the condition of our economy, that oester be -- both of these conventions in the last two eggs have focused on the issue of joblessness in this country, how to put americans back to work, but i wondered, to what extent you think it is possible, that some catastrophe on the international stage might end up over these next few weeks between labor day and election day, how they might end up impacting the outcome of this race. everybody is on edge. talking about living in an interdependent world, is it foreseeable that something on the internati

obama's been busy. >> president obama has worked with our small businesses. president obama has walked with seniors. with our young people. with america's women. and president obama has walked with the hispanic community. >> jon: but when the hispanic community looked back, there was only one set of footprints. (laughter and applause) i'll tell you what, though, with that commitment to all that work my guess is it's the family life that's suffered. >> that's the man who sits down with me and our girls for dinner nearly every night. >> jon: and eats like a (bleep)ing horse. (laughter) you heard how much he walks, right? (laughter) saving jobs in the day, hispanic speed walking in the afternoon, sitting down with the kids at dinner. bedtime? >> every night president obama reads ten letters from everyday americans. (laughter). >> jon: i... i am a lazy as (bleep). (laughter) for more, our political correspondent john oliver. john, thank you for joining us. (cheers and applause) what a night. a lot of story telling by people who have been personally affected by ob

vote for president barack obama. [. [cheers and applause] and the hard fought rights of women are on the ballot. democrats trust the judgment of women. we reject the republic assault on women's reproductive health. it's just plain wrong. when you go to the polls, vote for women's rights, vote for president obama. and our democracy is on the ballot. democrats believe we must cush the influence of special interest on our political institutions. democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests. we must build the economy from the middle out, not the top down. to change policy for the middle class, we must change politics. democrats will work to overturn citizens united. [cheers and applause] while republicans support opening the flood gates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote, it's just plain wrong. we believe in the governments of the many, not the privileged view. -- few. when you go to the polls, vote for democracy, vote for president barack obama. [cheers and applause] and

barack obama gets up every day thinking about barack obama. i mean, they're very different approaches to life. i think those of us who are his critics need to get over and understand, this who is president. this is a man who in the age of false celebritihood is sort of the perfect president, because he's a false president. he's a guy who doesn't do the president's job. he's had 39% of the briefings on intelligence, the daily briefings. he goes to las vegas while there's an attack on banghazi. >> bill: i give him a pass on that, because you don't want terrorists to think they've disrupted. i'm critical of the fact that he's not meeting with presidents that would be routine in new york. >> let's put it this way, then. for 10 days after the banghazi attack, the obama administration denied it was a terrorist attack. >> bill: that's a different issue. >> after carney said that morning, okay, now everybody concedes it's a terrorist attack, the same afternoon obama went back to the, oh, it's really caused by the film. i think it's because he wasn't c

should not be going after obama. then president obama after romney made the statement, then president obama condemned the killing. of course he has the right in the world to say really, we're going to apologize -- when you read it yesterday i thought we're apologizing to muslims and they are killing our people? >> andrea: vilry yol from the media -- vitriol from the media. take a listen if you missed this today. >> statement ast night, do you regret the tone at all given what we know now? >> do you think coming soon after the event unfolded overnight was appropriate to weigh in on the crisis unfolding? >> do you regret having the statement come out too early before we learned about all the things that were happening? >> andrea: what do you think, bob? >> bob: he made a very political statement, took advantage of a crisis, did not know the full facts, does not understand that area of the world. the idea that you suggest he is saying that he attacked obama's values, obama was not attacking anybody's values. also, just

i think his job is to connect better with barack obama and what barack obama's argument needed to make. he started it, he gave a chunk of it. i thought he spent too much time on some of the other things. medicare, the debt, not enough time on the number one issue. >> because obama does need that, that sense of, what is the plan? what is the economic vision that he's got? the positive vision that people would vote for. and clinton didn't really fill in those blanks. >> everybody in this hall, when asked are you better off now than four years ago, they said yes. if you ask the voters who are ultimately going to decide this in ohio, michigan, the undecided voters in virginia, they're not going to say yes. they're going to say, not so much. he didn't bridge that gap. >> a little bit lower marks on the economy. finally, one of the jobs he had, take the bat to the other side a little bit. red meat, throw out the partisan lines. how did he handle that? as an ex-president and democrat? >> in two ways he gets an "a" on that. first just walking out onstage creates enthusiasm this crowd wanted to

president obama took us away from that. he did, with our recovery act, he was a job creator from day one. we could have done better if there had been any cooperation in the second part of the president's term. they didn't. that's why elections are important. that's what we have to insist on the truth as the difference between the two parties. we believe in reigniting the american dream. that's what this election is about. >> the elections for the house, there are 25 seats to get back the majority. it's a tough environment outside, the supporters -- you're loving it here. what is your chance, what is your hope, your expectation, for your gaining the house? >> well, in our drive for 25, we feel pretty confident about it because we have out-raised the republicans without redistricting them but more importantly, we have out-recruited them. the excellence of our candidates, they are superb and that is one of the reasons we are able to attract the support we have, because of the quality of our candidates. but as you said, all of

michelle obama is most important. the two most popular figures in the democratic party are michelle obama and bill clinton. it's no cept the surprise one id tonight and one is tomorrow night. i think it's important to communicate. it's been an advantage the president has and it's had over governor romney throughout this campaign, even inspite of the abc poll, until i see further evidence will consider a bit of anouan outlier and the presidens better liked than governor romney. and romney's own people, they will never be competitive at that level with president obama. if they're going to win this race, they have to win it onç other issues,ç the economy and his perceived confidence in business. >> woodruff: what about the most of the mayor of san antonio, not a national name, chosen to give the keynote address. >> there was a state governor from illinois more strings than castro just eight years ago. i think it highlights not the importance over sang tony or even the great state of texas of latinos and hispanic vote

and obama's luck. he was lucky to run against john mccain who declared the state of the economy strong when lehman fell. with the economy weak is obama lucky again that business with mitt romney has changed the subject? i'm chris matthews. with us david ignatius. the bbc's katty kay, "the new york times'" helene cooper and national journal major garrett. foreign policy is the defining issue in this most critical presidential election. barack obama is a democratic president who holds the high ground on national security and that became a problem for governor romney in his charge that the president projects weakness to america's enemies. when he got the nobel peace prize at the beginning of his term, the president decided to use that stage to make clear that even though he was elected as an opponent of the iraq war, he does not shrink from using power in the muslim world. >> religion is used to justify the murder of innocents by those who have distorted and defiled the great religion of islam. and who at

obama is not what he once was. it isn't 2008 anymore. >> others wonder if become bam of 2008 was overrated. >> always top notch and top play. i never found him to be the supreme orator that people made him out to be. >> senior obama biden aide told fox news tonight is not about magic. they say the president will offer pragmatic vision with the eye on the tv viewer of the american heartland. across the last ten speeches to large crowds, mr. obama averaged a oatal running time of 24 minutes. his infrequent solo news >> gabby opened her eyes for the first time. >> the last memorial he turned in may have been at the memorial of gabrielle giffords and others in tucson. that was 20 months ago. >> you are not seeing him for the fist time or tenth time. the speech will rise to meet the moment we're in. the moment he must capture and the business he will do. on behalf of the american people. >> still other defenders of the president reminded us of the maxim to mario cuomo, they campaign in poetry but govern in prose. tonigh

obama in 2008. he talked to my colleague chris jansing a short time ago about that bear hug. >> when he came in, he busted through my front door and said where's scott? from that moment on, it seemed like he was a long lost friend, and it was amazing. great connection. he came over, gave me a hug and that's when the bear hug happened. like i said, i was just so caught up in the moment, it was unbelievable. >>> and if you can't beat him, join him. president obama jumped on the birther bandwagon after meeting a hawaiian-born boy at a sports bar this weekend. >> are you born in hawaii? do you have a birth certificate? >> it was an interesting weekend on the campaign trail for the vice president as well. hanging with bikers at a diner in ohio. according to the campaign, the bikers were part of a group called the shadow men. the associated press was able to snap a pictu, but so far, we have not been able to get our hands on any video. democrats getting a compliment from an unlikely source today as well.