you also have the empty chair for gabby giffords who, as we ve been reporting, thankfully, is getting better. but do you think that that was a positive change for a state of the union, general? i do. i think it was i agree with what margaret said. i think he hit the right tone. although there s some great things about american history and we re a great people, we ve got a lot of work to do. and i think he hit a real leadership tone there. so people understand he s serious. so they re building on the tucson speech. rate. he s serious, balanced, he s going to try to bring the country together, going to help us try to achieve the future. we talked a little bit about the window dressing of this. i m going to talk about the tie. a lot of us said, ben, about the president s tie. i don t know how you felt about it or if sartorial splendor is your cup of tea. you want to take a whack at that one, as someone who s doing the