this was his first speech to the generalssembly is getting tracon on his international to-do list, colby king? >> obama swed distance in substance and tone from his predecesso and that ishe new day we're talking about. he was well-received, unlikthe way prident bush was received. thataid, he is still deali with governments, andhe governmentare taking the same positions. personality cannot change the united nations rhetoric cannot change the united nations. the united natio represents governments, n individuals. there obama will run into the same problems that his predecessor encountered whent comes to tngs like thmiddle east or dealing with clite change. >> i think thereere a coue of things going on. there was the public theater, with everybody from obama to ahmadinejad, who spoke a halfnd the chamber, to gaddafi -- god kns what he wasoing -- but behind the sceneshere was a fa amount gog on. it is not cle whether we really didet a conceion from the russians that they would help on sctions if necesry, but it is the first indicaon that we might he actually gotten that. >>rogress, jeanne cumming

. >> colby king, this was the good war, the applause line during the campaign of 2008. iraq was a disaster, a mistake, but afghanistan was the good war. what happened? >> i think it is like the prospect of a hanging, it tends to concentrate the mind wonderfully. i think the prospect of putting more troops into afghanistan means more u.s. casualties, unavoidable. more u.s. casualties, more u.s. treasury being spent. obama willie will have to confront that. -- obama really will have to confront that. this is his warit became that when he committed 17,000 more troops to afghanistan surely after taking office. he said it was a war of necessity, he laid down the gauntlet on this. now he faces the consequences of facing a great deal of loss. even if you succeed with the mission, it will cost more in the way of life in the treasury, and i am not sure he is willing to take that step. >> jeanne cummings, it is complicated of the fact we have a stolen election, or at least a very sullied and stained election, allegedly reelecting karzai, and corruption is rife in the system. do t

gh school. >> charles whehe was courting anybodyaid, "i plato dominateou." >> colby king, d you agr with charl' assessmen >> surprisingly, ion't agree with charles on this. the president made a ver imrtant point to sayo the gathering, look, your days of saying is thi a u.s.roblem, those days are over. is a mutual problem mutual challenges we have, and yave responbilities alsoo step up and not just wait for the united states to take the lead. it was a very important change, not just a lite nuance, and s not apologetic. >> i also thi that-- the obama administrationants to resethe way the u.s. interts wit the wor, and that has to start somewhere, and if started with that resolution, that is by. but we have had prious resolutionand speeches and statements that he point fingers at north korea a ira and they did not get as anywhere ither, so tough talk hasbeen tried for a long time and is is an attet at a different approach. >> it is more talk, just soft talk. >> what doou want, middle talk? >> the u.n. is a fiction and a farce and the idea that oba is going to redmit and develop a new relatio

is he getting traction on his international to-do list, colby king? >> obama showed distance in substance and tone from his predecessor, and that is the new day be talking about. he was well received, unlike the way president bush was received. that said, he is still dealing with governments, taking the same positions. personality cannot change the united nations, rhetoric cannot change the united nations. the united nations represents governments, not individuals. there obama will run into the same problems that his predecessor encountered. >> i think there were a couple of things going on this week. there was the public theater. everybody from obama to ahmadinejad, who spoke to a half-empty chamber, to gaddafi -- god knows what hwas doing -- but behind the scenes, there was a fair amount going on. it is not clear whether we really did get a concession from the russians that they would help on sanctions if necessary, but it is the first indication that we might have actually gotten that. >> progress, and jeanne cummings? >> well, i think it is just t

you wrote a column on this, colby king. what did it say?e column was addressed to the people that feel president obama -- the would not want him to become a model hope he can do -- that with senator kennedy did but with a brain tumor. emerson said that. aside an example to people who welcomed the time bombs with animosity of the seven americans. that's it, i do not think you can quantify this and say that all the people who oppose obama are motivated by race. i do not think so. that also said, i remember a song written by julie stein bag in the early 1940's the said, " is teams of heard this song before, it has an old familiar score." going back to 1968, there was a guy named george wallace who also realize that race was something you cannot talk about, so they had another code in which he talked about centralized government, taxation of people, individuals bring on the federal government taking money. some of that is what you see now. it is in some of the rallies that were held in august and about some of the people who showed up in washin