okay, steve, let me put this to you. isn t this another case, as you say, of creating and fabric it aing the image? we ve had mitt romney making up stories about the president allegedly being the great apologizer in chief. and now we have him as this kind of iron fisted tyrannical ruler. everyone of these caricatures is bogus and false. and yet as karen and professor dyson make the case, it is detrimental to the electorate because some people might actually believe it. right. and i think that s the thing. there is a risk here. i can sound like i m being an polygist for obama and here come the republicans again going after him. is not that so unfair. i am that trying to say there is not plenty of room in what obama has done as president. what he has said as president for criticism, skepticism and cynicism. what the republicans decided to do, they decided they wouldn t grapple with who he actually is and what he actually represents as president, which is really a