able to make a compelling case for why these investments are going to create jobs and why they re going to make america win. and that s what this is really all about. we want to win. valerie, chris matthews. i thought the speech was great. it had a real jack kennedy quality. you know, you could argue it s a tad to the left of center but you couldn t really tell. let me ask you about the charm offensive tonight, the music to the speech tonight. the president was clearly trying to not be divisive tonight, trying to be very magnanimous, trying to follow up on tucson. one thing that s missing it seems to me in this administration, he doesn t seem to know a lot of republicans and maybe not democrats where you can figure out the edges where you can cut the deal. smart diplomacy, smart negotiation means finding those areas where you can cut a deal and move around the edge and find a surprising negotiation working. is he going to do more of that to try to figure these guys out? these republi