when carol mosley-brown ran for the senate, i can give you a litany of other african-american women and women of color that didn't get it the first time around. here's the other piece, okay, can you imagine a president gingrich, or a president romney? or a president santorum? we might as well just check our wombs at the store if santorum would be president. so for any flaws we see in president obama, i think in this season, he's better than any alternative that you can look at. now should we turn the heat up? absolutely, the heat needs to be turned up, but we need to speak up, i mean i was disappointed, i was so glad that we we have a latina on the supreme court. i'm very mad that we don't have an african-american woman on the supreme court. >> so this whole -- what's interesting here, there's three things i want to say really quickly. this notion about both individual responsibility and collective responsibility. both have to happen. in terms of elections and running, let's be a little bit real here about stechb citizen and how much money it costs to run. and that is also a self-fulfil