he is a castroite. these ads can be nasty. >> i am shocked that people do negative campaigning. the obama administration knows something about negative campaigning. they did more negative ads against john mccain in the last election because they had all the money. >> why didn't it seem that way? it seemed he ran an upbeat campaign. >> he didn't do the commercials here in d.c. he ran them elsewhere. they are smart to try to get it off the idea of being pure. there's a little hypocrisy. >> i look at karl rove. something like $50 million in different checks he's been able to raise. some of it super pac, some nonfunded ngo money. the power of these guys to raise money, obama has to get into the money game. he has to get into the negative advertising game? >> they played the game in 2008. they ran ads. one of the reasons the president came off as positive is he spoke