romney, he just waseven looking disengaged and so rather than playing it safe and running out the clock, he actually did harm to himself. bret: altitude? i think it was altitude, yeah. bret: charles? they re playing mumble in my answers because i was on an airplane today. i m recovering from altitude. look, people say, obama was off his game. this is his game. you take away a prompter, this is his game. he ll occasionally give a great speech, but if you look at him in his news conferences, which you don t have a prompter and the president has more control, he gets to decide who the questioner is and how long he talks, and what parts of an answer he ll give, he never does well. so this is who he is. i think people he s intelligent, but he isn t half as intelligent as he thinks he is and as most of his acolytes who have treated him in a messianic way for a half decade or so think he is.