and out of mind or will that man be able to continue to dominate the presidential debate even from caledoniamark: can you pick up a foreign policy credential if you are not around? one call from the today show, and he can dominate the news cycle anytime. as long as he's worse than the polls, it doesn't matter where he is on the planet. the thing amongst the many that people underestimate is, he gets that. john: go back to the premise of the question. it is the moment when the national polls are going to be conducted, that is going to use to decide who is going to be on the main stage. i know he's confident. but no other candidate with think of absent kick from america at the moment -- absent king himself from america at the moment where you have to make your place at the debate. he is so confident in his place in that stage, that he does not care. mark: it is unusual for the candidate with the most money to be the candidate who can most easily get earned media. does not happen a lot. it's unusual. president obama has been in africa since friday. in that time, he met with a girl named lucy, h