right. maybe is it is a failed policy. so, that really great rhetoric and lousy policy. i read when i was working in the white house, i read a lot of old presidential speeches. some of the best were by warn g. harding. a real snoozer, i hear. nobody quotes those because they didn t produce the historic change that then retrospectively validates the rhetoric r. the other side of it the polar rising effect, talk about speech s effect on foreign policy. part of the piece to karl rove, related story trying to do social security privatization, talked to a senior democrat on house, ways and mean also, we can do this together, wouldn t get pefring you want, i wouldn t get everything i want, we can do it, the policy gap isn t that large but we can t support your president on this, we can t work with him. and rove said to me it was about george w. bush. it was not about the policy. i think you see examples of that in the obama administration,