if you look at a presence in the past, fdr, lincoln, truman, they went into these world changing crisises and they did not have it down all right away. they made all kinds of errors. i am looking pass conventional wisdom, looking for what might be called radical pragmatists, things that work that went behind any kind of ideologies. what in the and bailed out the country. that is the way that the obama administration will have to start thinking. and host: this tweet says that obama's ideas are all old ideas. this has failed every time it has been tried. guest: calling obama a socialist or fascist is ridiculous. what i was hoping is that he would be more of a pragmatic liberal. we are not seeing that unfortunately. some of these charges are amazing. it is one of the reason the republican party is in the trouble is in. you are still getting the old cliche accusations. it is a shame to see that we have two major parties, that one have them has decided speak this way host. host: virginia is next. caller: i agree with a lot that kevin bacon is same. -- kevin baker is saying. you talk about poli

this is happening because of the lack of the of connally, crisises, because people love him, and because of his style. -- the lack of accountability, crisis, because of the people who love him. there are a number of reasons for this. we cannot predict what is going to happen in the future, but -- and i am looking at a very black and white world year, but if you solve these problems and crises go away. without crisis, progress will gradually begin to assert itself more. if he does not solve these problems in the crises worsened, -- and the crises worsened, the next elections for congress and the presidential elections after that, the pendulum will swing back in the not too distant future. but, for this in your terms, conditions are ripe for him to accumulate more and more power and for him to do it in a way that no one is objecting to it with people who are objecting do not have the power to do much about it. >> thank you very much. >> thank you for letting me be the cleanup hitter on this panel. i never played a clean up there, but i was the coach. [laughter] one bad thing about it is ev

the ones who are fine have resources that allow you to go through the crisises and have your kids say -- have a measure offsetable and that's what we want for all kids. >> host: nancy in connecticut. go ahead. nancy? >> caller: i'm 65 and i also protested against the vietnam war, and the iraq war but i have a comment and a question regarding what i believe is a hidden alternative to the draft. scott withers, a former weapons inspokor for the u.n. said the united states was becoming a military culture so i always won decide if this no child left behind was a strategy to deliberately cause more students to fail so that their only job option would be to join the military? we have army and marine recruiters that go to high school and show videos of actual combat and those virtual reality war games that he candidates play in order to entice them to join the military. so my question is, am i that far off base to suspect a link between our pentagon and a government plan to funnel more failed students into the military. >> host: at the very much in fact in race course, monday dohrn and mr. ay