quite some time in front of the white house press poll, all of a sudden pops in to talk about this subject among other things obviously, but, yeah, this was taking advantage of the political opportunity that s being handed to the campaign. joining me now, obama campaign national press secretary, ben la boat. thank you for your time. thanks for having me. your response to michael steele saying this was political theat, the president talked about syria, of course, this issue on congressman akin. well, this isn t theater. it s reaelt. take a look at the republican party platform of mitt romney s republican party. passed today, included a human life amendment that would ban abortion under all circumstances including in the form in the cases of rape. and incest. and could impact some forms of birth control. these were legislative initiatives that congressman ryan worked with congressman akin on while he was in congress. governor romney previously endorsed the personhood amendment.