because the election -- rteelection campaign is only a couple years away, that there's -- it's just tooverwhelming for most legislators to get past that issue. >> despite how the plutocrats have reacted to barack obama, he does not seem to be lack fdr taking on the economic loyalists or like theodore roosevelt, fighting the guys he says are tang the country down. how do you explain obama's attitude toward these plutocrats? >> barack obama in many ways is one of them. hess educated the way a plutocrat is educated. he had an opportunity to join the plutocracy. he could very easily right now be a top corporate lawyer and they know that. he thinks the way they do. he's a technocrat in the acceed matter of the plutocracy. and i thinkedthey like that. i think that's why he has such a strong reception in 2008. i think that's one elemhit.t. another element, thugh, and i think this is something that sort of bothers them is, he isn't over awed by them. and that kind of bugs them, too. because they do tink they're pretty great. >> to answer your question about why is he -- why doesn't he take the