smaller, subdued crowd. what was important was the substance. it wasn t a big rah, rah kind of speech. we re focusing our forces on things and money. our military ought to be focused on things like the threats that are real, not what happened in 1980. for somebody who worked in the communication side for this president, do you think that he needs to give a speech here, a sort of over arching national security all encompassing bringing in nsa drones, all of the things that are creating bipartisan space? he s already given a speech like that. the president talked to charlie rose at length in a long interview talking about these issues. i think the president and the white house are doing a good job giving out information about the level of transparency, about the comparisons to what there was during the bush administration. i think if you peace together owl of the things he s doing