off-putting, do you? well, i mean, have you watched chris christie over the last year and a half? this is very chris christie. the last part of what he said is the most important part. what i heard when i read that or what i saw is i would run for president if i thought i could win, but i m not ready. it s not off-putting, because that s chris christie. al checkie, who ran for governor some years back that you had some acquaintance with. i remember before he actually ran, he had his team investigate whether the governship had adequate powers to mare the deployment of talents such as his. i remember when i first heard that, he had a lot of good qualities, and i thought this was an arrogance that doesn t work. i actually don t have any recollection that he had that kind of investigation. he really wanted to be governor. i think he would have been an excellent governor, but chris