
This was just comical. He's saying all these social issues front and center?
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This was just comical. He's saying all these social issues front and center?

Look, the Tea Party has been a healthy injection in the Republican Party. It's really brought Republicans back the meaning -- when we say we're fiscal conservatives. To do something to save this country and our children from debt.

This is the problem when you've been in Washington so long, you forget who elected you, and you forget your people back home.

This is a total case of being absolute double standard by the Democrats on this issue. President Obama proposed a $4 billion 10-year cut in this very same program.

President Obama is the one who extended the tax cuts for all Americans, not just one bracket. All Americans.

The bigger problem here, Anderson, is when people say you can't cut anything and they then turn it into one of this manufactured war against women, war against children, this is why the government is so big, spends so much, and we have…

The government spends so much. We're all in deficits, we're all debt, we're all going broke.

I think the bigger substantive issue, though, in Afghanistan is the place is still a mess. You know, the president said tonight that in the last three years the tide has turned. Since he became president, he said the tide has turned. I…

I think you have witnessed the power of incumbency, Anderson. This is what presidents do. This is what commanders in chief can do.

I think you've witnessed the power of incumbency, Anderson.

If that's all it is, I would be praising President Obama and saying this is absolutely part of what presidents run on and should do.

If he wants to attack Mitt Romney in October, I think he would have been in higher ground. Using the anniversary of killing bin Laden was a terrible mistake.

Using the anniversary of the killing of bin Laden is a terrible mistake President Obama has made, showing there really is nothing post-partisan about him.

The notion that Romney now already saying anybody would have done it is simply not burned out by the stated positions of governor Romney and frankly, the lack of actions by President Bush.

When he ran in 2008 as the post-partisan, as someone who would bring us together, boy, did he sell us a bill of goods. There is nothing post-partisan about him.

President Obama was able to get the actionable intelligence that none of his predecessors had. He get the credit for it. It happened under his watch.

When he ran in 2008 as the post-partisan as someone who would bring us together. What did he sell us to be look good? There is nothing post-partisan about him.

He gets the credit for it. It happened under his watch. He made that decision. And I'm proud of President Obama.