nicolle, that barack obama might not have run for president were it not for the encourage men of harry reid. at the end of 2005 we had done a lot of political travel. then senator obama was taken away from his family on the weekend. he began to understand, if i run for president i am not going the see my girls, see michelle as much. he began to think of reasons not to run for president. unsolicited harry reid calls him over to his office i tweeted this out last night. both senator obama and i didn t know what harry had in mind. usually the staff would give us a heads up because harry goss going to ask senator obama to do so and they would give the staff a heads up, you can start doing this thing. he came back to my office, and i said, what did harry want? he wants me to run for president. it then gave then senator obama