was his -- his visit is the very thing that the people here need who are just so devastated from all the losses s. that a fair critique, that the president is taking resources away from the fight, or is he actually inspiring those who are out there and showing them that federal government and the commander in chief truly cares about what's going on there? >> reporter: well, governor bill owens a republican, the former republican bill owens, i should say, is the one who lobbied that criticism. he said during another really huge wildfire here, during his term, president bush wanted -- then president bush wanted to come and visit colorado and governor owen said, absolutely not. we don't want that kind of attention diverted from the actual fire fighting. of course, now the governor is a democrat. so it's kind of like owens versus hickenlooper, but i don't think the people -- i haven't heard anybody on the ground in colorado springs saying, why is he coming? >> everything that the president sdp in an election year is