that you could easily put together. yeah, i mean, well, it was a challenge of putting everything in. i mean, i like to expand on things and really get into it. it s, again, easy to forget that the polling in michigan at that time, even among democrats, was don t bail out the auto companies, and, of course, the famous romney editorial. and you think, well, that seems so easy. in hindsight, it wasn t easy. and he you know, the polling people are telling obama don t do, it don t touch it. he says, no, i m going to do this. time and time again, you see him looking past the quick political fix and saying, what is good for the country long term? and now there s millions of people who have jobs because he made that tough decision. and there s a great moment in the movie where you make a cameo at the end, declaring that gm is now the number one car company worldwide in sales. and you see how that finally
and on his character and on his presidency. you get the feeling in the political media and to some extent possibly in the voters that there isn t really a functioning memory that goes beyond 90 days. it seems like all political references refer to something within that period and there s no credit earned for something you did a year ago, two years ago, three years ago in our politics. and in some respects it s the cable news phenomenon, but it s also, like, it s me, it s my life. you tend to read the newspaper, i watch your show, and you tend to just get tend to look at what s happening this week. and, you know, we go back to his transition and he s getting this in the first part of the movie, you go to chicago, he s won the election and he s meeting with his economic team and they re saying, everything s cla collapsing, the banks, auto companies are collapsing. you go, what is this young president going to do and how is he going to handle this?