group of select committee members, my best messengers, my best politicians and staff them up with pollsters, focus group runners, message makers, lawyers who can run the same kind of compartmentalized campaign, and same kind of politically ruthless campaign as bill clinton did from the white house, a campaign that, to your point mika would illustrate for american voters what it is the president did, while the rest of the house and the rest of the democratic party, including the presidential candidates are focussed on the people s business. in effect, it s flipping the script, donald trump played newt gingrich s role, a guy worried about himself, and filled with grievances, that was his problem. do as the first article in the constitution. helping the public understand what s going on is one challenge, and it is a challenge in the age of the president
when you get down to particulars, you know the story here. there s an image that s created, but you get down to particulars and people say i m not giving up on that. if you re going to close the donut hole, seniors say, that s what we want, well, that s part of health care reform, are you for it? yes, i m for it. why don t people understand that s in the program? it s in there. the president has not been on the air yet. the air waves have been dominated by the republican message makers. and we will have our day. we ll it when it s closer to the election when the impressions that are created will have an impact on the final vote. and the members running, not a single one ran an ad defending their vote for health care reform. they spent a lot of money and it was a mistake. i think we should have been much more forceful. andrea, the republican candidates are certainly blasting the president for apologizing for the koran burnings. we ve got a long slog ahead, but