leaders for the nato summit. we will begin this morning to talk about an issue which came about with the president s comments this week with regard to the marriage and whether it is a flip-flop or an evolving point of view. there are a number of related stories on this. our discussion with you begins like this. is there a romney doctrine? david sanders coming up with a new book when mint romney was still trying to maneuver the challenges, he made a declaration about afghanistan that lady fraction of his foreign policy to shake their heads. and then there is this in the chicago tribune, looking at his use back in the 1990 s. barack obama responded to a gay magazine issue survey saying if he favored a marriage. he initially said he supported civil unions, but he had not gone so far to say that he supported gay marriage. and now he has come out in support of gay marriage. this is a way to set up our questionnaire and our discussion with your issue of involving vs flip-flop