him. one thing i wrote this piece, meaning you to deal with deficit reduction first, even if you want to do new spending, i a-listnd last night, i agreed michele obama and the young mayor from san antonio spoke to the base in a serious job. clinton s job will be to, woo back independents and white working class men in this country. what country works, joe you re spot on, the president will have to make spending cuts first before the country will embrace and republicans will embrace new spending which is why i ve said for a long time, had the president embraced simpson-bowles early on or something similar, we would be in a very different race right now in the country and i think would be more in tune and aligned with the president than today. we have to go to break, quickly john. the notion that a lot of republicans argue that barack obama if he wins re-election will govern further from the left is the furthest thing from true. i don t say that because out of some idealistic sense.