stop it. we re the ones giving the $3 billion a year to israel. you shouldn t be acting like you re giving it to us. i m sorry. he s got to get tough with our allies in the world, good allies like israel, and start acting like we re the big guys. you know, be a little tougher about this. that s my thought. just a thought. it s easier to be a pundit. chris, it s partly because of what you bring to the story in terms of your own knowledge of politics, i m sure, but one of the things i took from your book, as you ve been saying, is just how thoroughly steeped in the world of politics jack kennedy actually was. on the outside, we saw the cool customer and so on, but you document how from an early age he was deeply involved in studying and trying to understand history and politics. i m not sure barack obama s ever going to be that. but i want to flip around by the way, he s a lot more like you and me than you think. and mike, we re kids who started reading about churchill and heroes l