This week is poised to be a critical one in the presidential race as President Obama hopes to rebound from a debate performance that many dubbed as sub-par during his first meeting with Mitt Romney.
Governor Romney's performance at the first debate was dismissed by President Obama this week as "salesmanship," and on Meet the Press this morning, Atlanta's Democratic Mayor Kasim Reed struck a similar tone in giving advice to the president for Tuesday's debate.
"The President of the United States has got to stand up and every time sharply address [Mitt Romney] and not let him get away with it. He's a great salesman. I would buy a car from him."
Foreign policy has also taken center stage this week as conflicting reports from the administration about the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya have spilled over in to the campaign. Governor Bob McDonnell, R-Va., said the attacks should not be politicized and argued that they raised a broader point about where or not "this administration's foreign policy in the Mideast helped somehow to contribute to an appearance of weakness of the United States."
As David mentions in the video above, these issues all serve as a backdrop for Tuesday's debate, a night both campaigns are focusing on heavily and hope to come away with a win.
We also had an exclusive conversation with Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert, both in and out of character. You can watch the interview here. Colbert provides an interesting and unique look at how he thinks his character can shine a light on some of the absurdity in politics.
We'll back next week. If it's Sunday, it's Meet the Press.
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I'm curious as to why you would have the mayor of a medium-sized Southern city on your program so regularly.
esp. one who likes to debate foreign policy in the Mid-East! a one time great show is headed for the toilet!
Re Mayor, because he writes in. It's a free country David can post whoever he wants. What's your beef? P.S. Juan Castro for future U.S. president!!
Where the hell is Gary Johnson?
I don't know, but if he votes for anyone other than Romney, Obama will win. I hope he gets smart and does the right thing.
I feel that things are being misrepresented in Romney's campaign Women's health, tax cuts and Libya even Chris Stephen's father has asked that they quit politicizing his sons death. Let the investigation be done and Romney quit making it part of your campaign. Respect the wishes of those families who lost loved ones
Stephanie, and Glen Doherty's Mom told Romney to stop using her son's death to further his campaign and added "I don't trust Romney," I concur let the investigation proceed, let the report (s) be released and the truth may be found. Its real easy to have hind sight but real time knowledge is truly hard to come by.
Romney surrogates need to leave the families alone and stop the administration bashing. Legitimate criticism always helpful, but some of the venom and vitriol is astounding.
Russia, Great Britain, Germany all reported on 9/12 and forward the attacks were preplanned according to US officials - so we're to assume that the Obama administration were the only ones that didn't know that
Russia, Great Britain, Germany all reported on 9/12 and forward the attacks were preplanned according to US officials - so we're to assume that the Obama administration were the only ones that didn't know that. Google these and read, they all knew.
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Russia, Great Britain, Germany all started reporting on 09/12/12 and forward that ACCORDING TO US OFFICIALS the terrorist attack in Libya was preplanned. Look at links below, the dates of these stories, read through them all as they all reference conversations with US officials - not to mention CNN and NYT.
So we in the US are to assume that Obama, Biden, Carney, the rest of the administration, the Obama campaign all didn't know? And didn't know is an excuse? A war torn and fragile country and we don't protect ALL American officials in the country, and especially on 9/11 of all days and after there were previous attacks? This is being politicized by the Obama administration and the narrative to blame the terrorist attacks on the film only stirred up more hatred.
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Re: SA Mayor. A future U.S. president. David can post his comments anytime he wishes.
Meaning no disrespect for the dedicated and loved Chris Stevens, I ask if he took "the usual" level of protection with him as he traveled to Benghazi and stayed there? Any chance that he was lured to Benghazi?
Great interview with both Stephen Coberts.
Meet The Press needs a new moderator. All Mr Gregory does is lob softball questions to his republican guests. Mr Gregory do your guests give you the questions to ask them?
I support Obama/Biden, and I would like to say to them to accept the blame for the breakdown in communication on the attack. When you are at the top in any career, a true leader accepts responsibility for their staff. You then address and fix the problem. PLEASE be the leaders I believe you to be and do that. I would like to point out that Bush/Cheney also blamed the intelligence community for the WMD lies in Iraq!!! We could not afford this war, we are seeing the aftermath in everyday life with our failing economy.I agree with going after Bin Laden and the Taliban, but no matter how I felt about Saddam, I do not feel as though it was worth all the suffering for us by going in without any support. I don't understand how the Republicans can honestly put all the blame on Obama for not being able to mop up fast enough when Bush's policies kicked the bottom out of the dam!!!! Each party should take their blame where each is due.
Russia, Great Britain, Germany all started reporting on 09/12/12 and forward that ACCORDING TO US OFFICIALS the terrorist attack in Libya was preplanned. Look at links below, the dates of these stories, read through them all as they all reference conversations with US officials - not to mention CNN and NYT.
So we in the US are to assume that Obama, Biden, Carney, the rest of the administration, the Obama campaign all didn't know? And didn't know is an excuse? A war torn and fragile country and we don't protect ALL American officials in the country, and especially on 9/11 of all days and after there were previous attacks? This is being politicized by the Obama administration and the narrative to blame the terrorist attacks on the film only stirred up more hatred.
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Courtesy of Daily
Kos,June 8, 2012
On January 20, 2009 Republican Leaders in Congress literally plotted to
sabotage and undermine U.S. Economy during President Obama's Inauguration. In
Robert Draper's book, "Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the U.S.
House of Representatives"
Draper wrote that during a four hour, "invitation only" meeting with
GOP Hate-Propaganda Minister, Frank Luntz, the below listed Senior GOP Law
Writers literally plotted to sabotage, undermine and destroy America's Economy.
Frank Luntz - GOP Minister of Propaganda
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)
Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA)
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA),
Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX),
Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX),
Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI)
Rep. Dan Lungren (R-CA),
Sen. Jim DeMint (SC-R),
Sen. Jon Kyl (AZ-R),
Sen. Tom Coburn (OK-R),
Sen. John Ensign (NV-R) and
Sen. Bob Corker
(TN-R).Non-lawmakers present
Newt Gingrich
During the four
hour meeting: The senior GOP members plotted to bring Congress to a standstill
regardless how much it would hurt the American Economy by pledging to obstruct
and block President Obama on all legislation.
Courtesy
of the National Journal, October 25, 2010
Senate minority
leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) "The single most important thing we want to
achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president
Vote Democrat
Proud, border-line traitorous behavior, conspiracy to sabotage a democratically elected President and undermine the recovery of the country from a near depression, despicable.
Thank you for your post.
factually incorrect and misleading
You mean the meeting did not occur even though McConnell proudly admits to it?
History buff. why dont you just admit that you are intimidated by Obama.
What a load of "mularkey". It's that vast right wing conspiracy. Take the tin foil off your head and put down the Kool-Aid.
The Obama administration has blown the Lybian mess. I thought Biden was there for his foreign policy experience. Even Bob Woodward who is a staunch Democrat is seeing the disaster that is Obama.
And Pelosi and Reid and the rest of the Dems cry foul because obstructing (actually voting "no") on bills that are seen as bad for the nation is the elected Republicans doing their job.
The Republicans were very much left totally out of any discourse when the whole OboobaCare debacle was reviewed and voted on. You call that Republican obstruction? How is it obstructing anything when all their votes combined weren't enough to override all the votes of the liberals who want socialism? If our system is in disrepair, it is because it has been allowed to render the needs and desires of the masses to be ignored by those with an evil agenda, aided by their control of their press / media suckholes and to demonize and slander anyone who dares oppose "The Messiah" and his Orwellian vision for this once - great nation.
Obama is an evil narcissistic bastard and in the next debate, he will once again be just as full of his typical bullsh!t and empty rhetoric as he has been since his days growing up in some third - world sh!thole. He would be a great leader in Zambia or Cuba or even the former Soviet Union...maybe he'd be a God to the Europeans who obviously need one at a time when they are allowing Islamic militants to run roughshod over them. But for a civilized, intelligent nation, Obama is out of his league and has no place where people value freedom.
Those who think their most precious right needing protection is their right to murder their unwanteed children are sick bastards who must screw so much they need an abortion every other month...otherwise, why is this one thing such a BIG thing to them??? Why is it if a pregnant woman is murdered, it's a double homicide, yet if the woman decides the "tumor" growing inside her doesn't deserve to live, she can murder it out of simple convenience to her sexual desires?
But take heart, though. If your Boy and the ACLU - types end up ruling the nation, you will wonder where your right to even choose to open your ignorant mouths went when you too, are targeted for trying to exercise your right to speak out on the things you once took for granted.
Russia, Great Britain, Germany all started reporting on 09/12/12 and forward that ACCORDING TO US OFFICIALS the terrorist attack in Libya was preplanned. Look at links below, the dates of these stories, read through them all as they all reference conversations with US officials - not to mention CNN and NYT.
So we in the US are to assume that Obama, Biden, Carney, the rest of the administration, the Obama campaign all didn't know? And didn't know is an excuse? A war torn and fragile country and we don't protect ALL American officials in the country, and especially on 9/11 of all days and after there were previous attacks? This is being politicized by the Obama administration and the narrative to blame the terrorist attacks on the film only stirred up more hatred.
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Please stop with the cut and paste, got your point the first time, please explain what is wrong with Proud Patriots post? Are you saying that said meeting did not take place? Are attendees wrong, was McConnell's statement wrong, curious as to what the facts are. Thank you.
I would assume some of the officials in this administration were aware of warnings, were the warnings specific in nature or generalized, were they location specific, group affiliation. Will we ever know? Did recipients of the warnings pass the word along or dismiss them as what appears to be the same for the original 9/11 tragedy?
Go pick up your check on fiverr, you've posted this enough.
There may really be people on this page that are so stupid that they would read the same post four or five times.
I'm not one of them.
I am dismayed at the passion that Republican are displaying to bring the entire administration down. they could wait for something to happen they even prayed for it.
Remember what Romney said in his famous 47 percent tape... that only is an indictment
of his behavior.The only thing worst than that is the support he gets from the mediua,stroking fir at every turn.
You should be dismayed at the gargantuan and obvious efforts made by your Socialism - loving Liberals in an effort to bring the entire NATION down!!!
Who gives a damn about party loyalty when the country is at stake, not some dumbass, clown's political career? And since when is it a crime to oppose those who embrace ideas that are NOT working, will NOT work and have NEVER worked? What it is called when someone goes to great lengths to oppose a destroyer and a very evident evil agenda is your "patriotic duty."
But then, I know that's a foreign concept to any liberal...love of country is pretty low on any liberal's list. For liberals, it's all about "ME" and what is in it for "ME".
Enjoy the demise of America if your version of "Jesus" is elected. Obama hasn't got any concern for the people...his focus is on his puppeteers who want a One - World Government with the monkeys in the UN calling the shots.
I do not believe the lies for a second, they are coming from both sides by overzealous patriots but guess what?
To Democrats: Not all conservatives are your enemies.
To Conservatives: Not all democrats are your enemies.
Both parties have good people who sincerely want to help the country get better, although they may differ in some areas as to how that may be accomplished.
Since we know it is not always wise to trust overly excited people from either side, then we have to look at the results because the results don't lie.
Obama: 23 million Americans unemployed, average income down by $4,000/year, and a frightening reduction in Americans' confidence that the government will help solve our problems. Largely indicative of forcing Obamacare through without a single republican vote, is that a democracy or more accurately tyranny?
Romney: 80% success rate in saving failing businesess, donated his entire inheritance to charity, took no pay as an intern in the Governor's office, no pay as Governor, and no pay as President of the 2002 Winter Olympics. He seems to get the money thing, if it's not necessary, do without, and help the situation resolve itself.
He also said he'd take no pay if elected President of the U.S.
Those are the results, and the results don't lie.
Romney/Ryan 2012
The two parties used to work together prior to Obama's election. Prior to Obama presenting his agenda, the decision was made to not work with him. The congress is who needs to go. They need open minded people who can work together. The Tea Party AKA KKK hasn't helped out.
The Real Republican party historically was a more classy party. Today the Republican party is a puppet of the oil companies. The most interesting thing that Biden said during the debate,
was for Americans to use their common sense.
What happened to Ron Paul he incorporated common sense into his views? He actually made some sense within the confines of the conservative doctrin.
Romey is not a conservative. He is a puppet. Just like Bush. Same people, Same Ideas. I just guess there is no cure for stupid. There are no true conservatives in the Republican Party. They jumped ship. Look at the cross section of what is left in rank and file of the party. If this election is not won by Romney, the Republican party will splinter. The democrats will Run Hillary in 2016.
Obama is cunning politician. Each and every move is orchestrated to motivate the base to get out and vote. If Obama was too far ahead going into the election, people would think it was a sure thing and many would not vote. Close or a little behind in the polls is perfect. That is what motivates the Democratic Base. Good luck Romney.
Obama is a lying weasel. Obama is evil incarnate.
And since when has a modern - day Democrat ever truly given a sh!t about anything aside from having control over everyone and everything, raping the coffers for the benefit of themselves and their cronies?
Go ahead and follow the little scumbag pied - piper wannabe pretend "president" into the abyss. You will get what you deserve in the long run...then you can clap your hands when you too are "equal" with the most impoverished people who are just plain lazy and want everything for free. problem is, there will be nobody left with any money to pay for taxes to provide 'everyone" with their fair share...so enjoy foraging for nuts and berries and roadkill.
Unemployment is low at thie time due to the fact that many, many have exhausted their benfits...not because they are not employed. Mr. Obama are you going to start cutting costs for yourself and Mrs. Obama to save the United States of America, so that we Americans can get back to business? You, Mr. Obama, started your first 4 years as President of my Country, bashing former President George W. Bush. Have you, Mr. Obama, experienced what my former President, George W. Bush, felt and shared with every American on Septemper 11, 2001.
Sub Par? Obozo's performance in the first debate was so low had he been playing golf it would have been a new course record.
Betty, I'm betting he celebrated with the rest of the muslins on 9/11.
To many, the results of the Debate won’t matter. There are many of the Liberal Lemmings who
support Obama that won’t even watch the debate, yet will claim victory, because
they have graduated from the imaginary school that Obama is a competent leader. Congratulations.... you graduate with Highest
Honors...Here is your Diploma (Huge steaming Pile Of Bull SCHIT)......Go use it
to obtain employment??? Won't get you the Job you want you say??? Then Join
Acorn (or whatever their Name is now), become a Muslim, join reverend jeremiah
"bullfrogs'" flock of anarchists, become a Community
"Organizer", Conceal everything you can about who you are, write a
fairy tale about some bull schit dreams from your father(s), surround yourself
with every Anti-American misfit you can find, lie through your teeth at every
opportunity, throw anyone who disagrees with you or who becomes a threat to you
under a bus, create an image of nonexistent greatness and competence supported
by the MSM and trough feeding freeloading constituent lemmings, destroy every
vestige of honesty and decency and COMPETENCY in your political foes thru Lies,
and guess what??? You just may have a shot at becoming a U.S. President some
day. Hell, I should not have to be telling YOU this.....YOU probably VOTED for that Incompetent Dishonest, Destructive,
Deceitful, Divisive Anti-American POS POTUS we have now!!!
Moderate, Why did you only talk about his good points?
Does DAVID GREGORY ever do any homework before he goes on the air about the policies discussed in the presidential campaign? If he did he would have corrected the following misleading statement by Gov McDonnell....
Number two, that absolutely Obama and-- and Biden are going to raise your taxes about two trillion dollars over the next couple of months-- over the next four years. So what I would say is what we learned about Paul Ryan is he is thoughtful, he understands the budget better than anybody else, and that the top issue facing the country is-- isn’t Bain Capital, it isn’t Mitt Romney’s tax returns, it isn’t Big Bird, it’s how do we get the greatest country on earth out of work-- out of debt and back to work. And when you
Dear David Gregory: I have watched Meet the Press for decades. I watched Tim R. for many years because of his fair and even handed treatment of the issues, and of politicians on both sides of an issue. I think your obviious Democratic partisanship (and that of your producers) is eroding the journalistic legacy of the show.
I have watched last Sunday's edition twice. In the intro, you personally promised to share the thoughts of a panel of lay undecided voters concerning the VP Debate, and in particular, the antics of Joe Biden. You never showed the lay panel results, and further, you never posted the video of the lay panel segment on the Meet the Press website. It disappeared into thin air in favor of the "talking head" expert panelists. Instead of showing the lay segment, you allowed the Mayor of Atlanta to assert that undecideds favored Biden's debate performance overwhelmingly. Is this in fact what your panel of undecideds indicated? I seriously doubt it. Post the entire unedited segment for us all to see. The only people who did not think that Joe Biden, and his antics, were not rude, intrusive, disrespectful and condescending, are Democrats in his base and his spinmasters. Base Democrats were so desparte for an aggressive attack after Pres. Obama's lackluster showing in the first Presidential debate, that they dispensed with any reasonable perspective on civility, courtesy and propriety in a debate. You let them get away without fairly commenting on it. You showed you have an agenda, and you broke the promise made in your introduction to show the audience the lay panel's perspective. If you do not carefully present a reasoned perspective in your capacity as moderator of the show, you make yourself a cheerleader. When is Meet the Press moving to MSNBC? Your version of Meet the Press would make a great lead to the Rachel Madow show. Bill Rogers.
Meet the Press (AKA meet the liberals) , MSNBC (AKA meet the pouting children) , Bryan Williams ( AKA meet Mr. playboy stuffed shirt with no balls) Chris Matthews ( AKA the delusional one who could be a serial killer....) are all such abominations of the real world it is embarrassing for me to be an American- the only people who seem to get this right is SNL.
So the Obama Team ( teleprompter Barrack and Jivin Joe) say they are close to securing another 4 years of increasing socialism- If they can just get the percentage of people depending on government programs and handouts to about 60% then they will be where HUGO CHAVEZ of Venezuela- continuous terms without limits ( and he ENDORSES OBAMA!) Can you believe we have a President who is endorsed by one of the last corrupt S. American despots ? If you think socialism works you are either a trust baby like me ( or a Hollywood actor from LA LA land) or you have not read your history. Unions and Socialism are signs of the impending collapse of the American culture, if we can call it a culture anymore. Why do you think the arabs hate us- the profanity and debasement of our ideals as Americans as seen in our media and our movies and TV shows is why the arabs have concluded that we are indeed a profane culture and they think we should be eradicated. I was deeply involved in International business and I know this is what virtually all Arabs think- from moderates to extremists. This is of course why we need to separate us from their oil since their zealous belief in their religion WILL lead to war.
So, here I sit typing a message which is transmitted via COMCAST to a news organization owned by COMCAST ( a virtual monopoly) and then I have to listen to opinions which are so far from the reality of how the world is and how it works and now we have a sitting President who has just told a bold faced lie to the American people about what happened in Libya and the Liberal left is so stupid or more likely so naive, that they cant bring themselves to admit or question it. In fact they point to the great President Clinton who also bold faced lied to the American People while shaking his finger in our face ( I did not have sex with that woman !) and they compare him to Obama- i.e. raising taxes resulted in a tech boom that gave us a budget surplus... Well the comparison of being a liar is correct but increased taxes did not cause the tech bubble- the tech bubble allowed the government to reach into the tech investors pockets and pull out huge amounts of tax revenues. So again it is business that creates income to support the social programs, not taxes. I liked Clinton because he was a DEAL MAKER. Obama is NOT a deal maker and cannot be compared to Clinton in any way shape or form. Lets face it the only reason Clinton would endorse Obama is because he has distant objectives ( or has designs on a woman in his campaign !) Have you noticed that Clinton is not appearing much- thats cuz his wife Hillary threw herself under the bus after completely screwing up on Libya....
Why are things so transparent to a simpleton like me but the "best and brightest" of the media cant seem to tell the truth ? I feel sorry for the middle class- they truly will be relegated to low paying part time jobs without benefits and they were promoted by the Biden, Dodd, Frank, Pelosi, Reid brain dead politicians to buy into the American dream of homeownership leveraging with 0% down ! Break up these large banks, break up the damn unions who with their underfunded pensions, break up the universities and their 10% per yer increases ( all due to free student loans) , break up the teacher unions who
have done a miserable job educating, break up the need for the military by becoming completely independent of Mid East Oil ! There is hope for America but we need to break
up these monopolies that dominate our life !