but things have changed in a relatively drastic way in the last six months to a year. this is president obama s chance, i think to give the broad sweep of where we are, what the u.s. is doing, and where we think things need to go. among challenges, though, is, he will be trying to put that big frame around the picture, at the same time as they are saying these are individual countries, we have different policies for libya than syria. it s hard to draw a big conclusion, especially when he doesn t have any new policy suggestions. let me add, i know you know this and you ve talked about it, president obama will give the speech tomorrow. friday he meets with netanyahu, the most intractable palestine conflict there, with netanyahu will not sit down with the palestinian government. this broad gloss, i think is good for president obama to say here s where we ve been, here s where we re going.
republicans who are so far ahead of him in the popularity game and the name game that he will do and say anything to get his name in the lights which is what he s doing. i think that about sums it up. newt gingrich is very smart d he contributes an awful lot to the intellectual fire power that the republicans have. he really does have spectacular thoughts and makes he s controversial. his policy suggestions are exciting and controversial. i think he s a leader in our party, but he is not the leader of our party. i m sorry. i don t think you can use this example as being part of the t intellectual arm of the republican party. this is reprehensible, number one. number two, to say the president was a con, was pretending to be normal. what does that even mean? andy, if he has intellectual fire power, he s aiming it at him efl. he has the gun right on his head
from within. they have gone to great lengths to keep the bad decisions contained to the west wing. it may be a cold comfort but americans should know. the interesting timing is this comes shortly after we started getting details from bob woodward book where he says james mattis privately expressed frustration about the commander-in-chief intellect and been appalled by some of the presidential policy suggestions. such as ordering the pentagon to assassinate the syrian president. that book claims that mattis stayed on because he wants to help prevent the start of world war ii. the secretary put out a blistering statement declaring that the idea he expressed con tempt for the commander-in-chief is product of someone s rich imagination. the president today thanked mattis. lashed out at the book calling