joining us daifld corn and michael sheir. gentlemen, thank you.ow this until you put it all together. i have a sense that on the right if you're a moderate positions like these polls say, you're considered a liberal. if you're in the middle, the right sees you as the left. it's true. what do you think? >> well, i think the right is screaming that this is a liberal speech which should come as no surprise. barack obama has always been a progressive democrat. a pragmatist as a government manager, but progressive in his values. >> i know you're on the progressive side. would you call his speech out of the mainstream on the left side? >> no. i would say he was putting forward the most popular elements of the progressive tradition. which is a safety net, having government invest in the economy, build fracture of the highway system like eisenhower did. i think they're more liberal and mainstream than they've been because the right has moved so far to the right they don't want to see government doing anything. and that's not -- i don't think that's what t