years ago for the left, in a way that's very nonthreatening, very unifying,. he's very principled, and i think he brings -- he does have the ability to bring people together. he has the ability to really inspire and invigorate the base, something that the more managerial mitt romney is not able to do and he also gets young people fired up which after this weekend with all the empty seats at the college auditoriums we know obama is having an increasing problem with. jon: we heard a lot about hope and change four years ago, christopher. what happened to it? >> well, you know, i think you go to washington and you take some of the republican ideas like mitt romney's health care bill and you ask republican toss support the ideas they have supported for years and they say you know what, you're a democrat, we don't want to support that and they slap your hand down, so after a while of doing that you've got to go a different route. you've got to become adversarial because that's what the process drives you to. jon: so the president is going to be adversarial,