people to vote for love of country. mark sanford joins us, governor, great to talk to you. voting is the best revenge, i m not sure i know what that means or who voters are supposed to exact revenge against, it s an element of democracy as final appeals, what do you think of the remark? i got a feeling on this one. i think it s much to do about nothing. i say that for three different reasons. what strikes me you get to the end of these campaigns and media corps is worn out. so they are looking for any slight twinge or difference you got that as part of the recipe and incredible partisan nature of the campaign, you mention the
activists or government. u.s. officials say the american soldier who allegedly shot and killed 16 afghan civilians was acting alone. the unidentified staff sergeant turn himself in after the shootings. officials have not said whether he had mental health issues or what his motive may have been. meanwhile, the taliban have issued a statement vowing to take revenge against, quote, american invaders and savage murders. security officials and medical sources say israel launched a new round of air strikes in gaza early on monday. they claim at least 30 people were injured. at least 18 people have been killed in israeli air strikes since friday. israel says it is responding to more than 100 rocket attacks from gaza. those are the headlines from cnn. i m monita rajpal. world business today starts right now. good morning from cnn london, i m charles hodson. good afternoon from cnn hong kong, i m andrew stevens. welcome to world business today. our top stories this morning
patriotic what do you think obama meant by revenge? romney has not been president. he hasn t inflicted any policies on anyone. revenge for merely running against him? is it revenge for challenging him? what do you think? i think there s a real question, there revenge for what? mitt romney hasn t been a president of the united states. he was governor of massachusetts, so maybe if you were talking to a massachusetts audience which the president wasn t there might be something to feel like you have a revenge against. i m not sure what he meant. seems like an odd way to talk about voting. however, i do think the president has spent the last couple of days trying to fire up his base. i think his message has been much more tailored to that even the talk you re hearing from his aides, david axelrod, his energy is coming from his loins which axelrod said which is the crudest thing i ve ever heard anybody say about a sitting president. is this base motivation stuff. romney seems to be trying