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Ari Fleischer

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Ari Fleischer is a Republican political consultant and former White House Press Secretary under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2003. He played a significant role in communicating the administration's policies and responses during pivotal events, including the September 11 attacks and the subsequent War on Terror. Fleischer is known for his defense of the administration's stance on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, a key justification for the invasion in 2003. After leaving the White House, he has worked as a media consultant and commentator, providing insights on political communication and strategy.

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Jul 17, 2012

If he was going to do it, Anderson, in the cause of transparency and good government, the time would have been to have done it months and months ago.

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Jul 17, 2012

There's so much drip, drip, drip, why does everything keep coming up dry, dry, dry.

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Jul 15, 2012

The president not only has an economic record he can't defend. He's not really running a very good campaign.

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Jul 15, 2012

The reason is, in the cycle like this 2012, the voters are so focused on who can fix the economy, who can create jobs, who can reduce the deficit and the debt, they know the president can't.

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Jul 15, 2012

This is Barack Obama's own birther movement against Mitt Romney.

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Jul 12, 2012

If he released five years, they would say, why didn't you release six?

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Jul 12, 2012

This is what the Obama campaign needs to do is invent a new excuse every day for voters not to focus on how high unemployment is.

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Jul 12, 2012

The Obama campaign needs to do is invent a new excuse every day for voters not to focus on how high unemployment is.

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Jul 12, 2012

If he released five years, they say, why beyond you release six?

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Jun 27, 2012

The president who said he wouldn't raise taxes on anybody who made below $250 thou, now he's threatening to raise taxes on tens of millions who make far, far less than that.

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Jun 27, 2012

Mitt Romney is an imperfect carrier of this message. But given the fact that he's running against President Obama and given the fact he has promised to repeal Obamacare on the first day, he's plenty good enough.

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Jun 18, 2012

The reason the president has re-election difficulties is because the American economy is doing so poorly and the president made tremendous promises to the American people that he would reduce unemployment.

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Jun 18, 2012

The president continues to call for a stimulus, in deed but not in word.

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Jun 17, 2012

This just says he's going to stop the administration from deporting children. That's all he really is doing in this change that he's making.

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Jun 17, 2012

Their view is what the president did blew up any chance of getting any type of thing, any type of bipartisan action together on Capitol Hill, that the president in taking executive action and just doing such a narrow slice of has poisoned…

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Jun 10, 2012

Governor Romney wants to create jobs through the private sector. The president wants to create jobs through the public sector, through the government.

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Jun 10, 2012

I think frankly the October surprise of this election will be the bottom falls out on President Obama's numbers and Mitt Romney will probably win a comfortable election.

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Jun 10, 2012

To quote the president, the private sector's doing just fine.

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Jun 10, 2012

The only way it goes away is if job creation in this country gets strong, and I don't know an economist who believes that will be the case.

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Jun 7, 2012

The president basically said all those rich people, they are just doing fine.

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Jun 7, 2012

President Obama believes that the way you grow our economy is by having the government find more reasons to hire more people. Mitt Romney believes the way you grow the economy is by having a private sector thrive so it can hire more people.

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