kathleen parker, dan senor, chrystia freeland, and bernard-henri levy. kathleen, you were talking about during the break how it's been difficult to have a rational discourse about the mosque. >> right. well, i wrote a column, as i guess probably most of us at this table have, in support of building the mosque near ground zero. not on it but near it. and i got these just, you know, floods of letters from people, many of whom were appreciative. and by the way, my column was translated all over the world. i've gotten letters from countries, muslim countries all over. which has been really gratifying and lovely. but from the united states i've gotten quite a different taste of support for the -- not support for the mosque. and what i've seen is this leap of logic from oh, if you support the mosque then the next thing you know you're going to be living under sharia law and i will be the next stoning victim. the assumption is that you give one muslim, you know, a cookie and he's going to impose sharia law and that's the end of freedom as we know it. >> but doe

let's start with dan senor and the obvious, what did you think of the speech? i was underwhelmed, larry. i thought he made many important points particularly about how regardless of what one thinks about the decision to go in iraq, iraq is a better place today for the iraqi people and better for american security. americans are more secure because of where iraq is today. i thought the speech tonight was too focused on why we're leaving, the withdrawal, who deserves much of the credit and the troops deserve most of the credit but also general odierno, general petraeus, president bush's surge strategy which not only president obama remained committed to even though he was oppose ed opposed to it, americans learned a lot of lessons and counter insurgency the last couple of years in the war which i would say president obama was able to give the speech he did tonight because of that strategy and so i thought in that sense it was a little ungracious. >> larry: michael, he was underwhelmed, were you? >> i think it's much easier to turn the page on the iraq war if you

dan las cosas. >> gracias. >> nosotros nos vamos a una breve pausa pero vamos a ver quÉ hay en regreso. >> esto va para los seÑoresan empatados en las preferencias del electorado.--jerry brown y meg whitman, ostentan el 41 por ciento de las preferencias. --la diferencia podrian marcarla los indecisos que representan el 18 por ciento. --mas a las seis. >> muy buenos dÍas, hoy es viernes 24 de septiembre, bienvenidos otra vez a despierta amÉrica seguimos con marcelo. >> un gusto estar aquÍ en el show de despierta amÉrica. hay muchas sorpresas para el domingo, estÉn pendientes. >> y en tan solo momento se les vamos a traer en primicia imÁgenes de los ensayos de la mujer huracÁn, jacky guerrida quien se prepara para dejarnos con la boca abierta en... >> ¡mira quiÉn baila! >> y en otro tema para el dÍa de hoy, si en su pareja se le apagÓ la llama del amor por el sobrepeso le vamos a decir cÓmo recuperar esa pasiÓn. >> quÉdese con nosotros. >> ¿quÉ le parece si continuamos con informaciÓn? >> muy buen dÍa a todos analista de la situaciÓn en colombia dijeron que la muerte del guerrillero el mono jojoy podrÍa impulsar a m