. >> andrew sullivan, thank you so much.hroughout this evening, we've noted the changes from just two years ago, it's a huge turn around from that wave of optimism that followed president obama's election here in the u.s., but what about around the world? we asked a few of our correspondents to weigh in on this issue and we began with the bbc's duncan kennedy who is in rome. >> the united states and italy have relations going back beyond the mid 19th century even before italy was a unified state. very strong relations have continued with president barack obama. there was a slight hiccup at the beginning of his presidency and the italian prime minister silvio berlusconi appeared to make reference to the president's time and later berlusconi explained he had been understood. in the meantime president obama has been here with the g-8 summit and the two appeared to get on well. in the past months berlusconi confirmed the trip to afghanistan. although the initial excitement of president obama coming into office waned here just li

for a presidential campaign you know that seems to be what they do when they don't when we know andrew sullivan from the atlantic he actually stated that probably pretty brilliantly comparing sarah pay. and to snooki because you know the more outrageous things that snuffy does the more famous she gets and somehow that's happening with sarah palin also so what do you think after these midterm elections now now that fox the republican party doesn't really need the tea party anymore are they going to turn on them. you know i think it i think it's kind of like you know it will be gremlins like it's hard to put the gremlins back in the box what you feed them after midnight expose them to bright light and get them wit i think they're going to have a problem sort of turning on them i think that you know it's the tail is going to start wagging the dog and i think they've you know they pretty much unleashed the worst thing possible and good luck to the republicans you know i'll be with my american passport waiting for the for the rapture you create to come. they have unleashed a crack in the i guess you