he really began his political career saying barack obama wasn't born in the united states. the original sin, the whole birther story. and he got a lot of fuel from that. he was able to differentiate himself in the republican presidential bid by taking tacky kind of hard right on obama and he feels he scores points with his base. i've never seen a president who so routinely has to say i'm better than my predecessor, and we saw it on his first major thing with the inaugural, with the crowd size and all that. >> it is interesting because president obama got a lot of criticism early on in his administration when he would talk about the economy and point to what happened under president bush and people after a certain time said look, after a certain point you own it, stop talking about it. i'm wondering, how common is it for presidents to criticize a former president this long -- after a year in office? >> it happens. franklin roosevelt ran on --