because the affordable health care act was about affordable health care, not about obamacare. so the tone deafness is what's more revealing here than anything he prescribed. >> emanuel cleaver was on msnbc on the thomas roberts hour talking about that being someone on the speech writing team did not understand how that would play with the audience. david corn, we talk about sort of the political reality here. was the naacp speech for an african-american audience or for those independents who just want to see this guy extending an olive branch to the minority community? >> the people i know in the romney campaign are not fools. i don't think they can get -- they believe they can get to 10%, 8%, 7% of the african-american vote. i would give him an a-plus for the speech today, only because he did not say some of my best friends are african-american nascar owners. but the speech was really about showing that he's not severely