which i include that with, comes in spite of the president's remarkable successes in both areas of defense and national security over the past few months, including launching the dramatic raid that killed osama bin laden. roger simon is chief political columnist of the politico and evan cohn is an nbc news terrorist analyst. roger, thank you for joining us and thank you for that column this morning, which inspired me to think about what you were thinking. and that's this strange world. i want you both to see this now. here's a montage, as we say on tv, of the president announcing all these various successes i mentioned. as a reminder, all of these events have taken place in just the past half year. let's listen. >> tonight, i can report to the american people and to the world that the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden, the leader of al qaeda. earlier this morning, anwar al awlaki, the leader of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, was killed in yemen.