and said let's have project independence. let's wean ourselves off foreign oil by 1980. didn't happen. what obama is trying to do, which is classic obama, not overpromise and set a goal by which he will be judged in which we can't meet. >> who was his speech aimed at mostly? was it the american people or bp executives? who is his big audience here? >> i think if you have to get to the core, certainly the people in the four states that are particularly suffering and, also, a big wrap on obama the last number of weeks that he has not been engaged enough. 53 emergency ro 53% of americans thought his performance in this crisises was poor or very poor. chris, in the end, results are what are going to matter. this is a version of carter crisis. he gave speech after speech and until the hostages got out, same thing.