accounts. i think, i think, mika, more to the point, there may be a few years back there, where mitt romney, the guy worth $300 million, $400 million, paid nothing in taxes. i think that s what they re really afraid of. that s painful. for the long run. donny? i would love to ask everybody around the table a human gut question, forget republican, democrat, conservative, liberal, as a human being, as humans we vote for another human being, when you hear all this stuff, at the end of the day, do you really feel this guy is an absolute straight shooter? and you just don t in your gut. you just ask michael steele that question. michael, just as a human, forget republican i know the rest of the table like i know a lot of rich guys, not a lot of rich guys, you feel something here. i think the american voters feel this. okay. bill clinton. michael, what do you think? no, i think there s a real element there that, again, rubs at people and it was part of the
had become president, having question time because he was so good at town meetings. i m sure his temper would have seen him through four years without any i think president obama tried to be interactive at one point everywhere and we criticized him for that. too visible. too visible. down the stature of the presidency. jon, i wanted to ask jon, remember when bill clinton toyed with that idea of going to the well of the congress when he was in the early days of his health care effort to talk about, as we were talking in the last segment about, you know, obama not conveying his message, president clinton actually thought about that parliamentary approach at one time. yeah. and would have been fabulous at it. absolutely. the reason we didn t do that, one of the reasons we didn t do that, and in fact, jefferson stopped washington and adams delivered the state of the union speeches in person, and then jefferson stopped because he thought it was too regal. like the king s a