competent i ll agree with what you were saying walter about the president is winning in a certain sense. politically he is. i m not only a political person i m a policy person. this nafta duh if we can call it that. it s a rebranding. what richard haas said he has joined the globalists and convinced his base he ripped up nafta. that s a remarkable thing. i do think too that your point that the american pendulum swings is just totally true since arthur schlesinger wrote it 70 years ago. we always gravitate to what we just didn t have and are yearning for. so that s why i m hoping we will gravitate back to the mike barnacle view. i remember having this conversation with you on the