the director of national intelligence, dennis blair, visited rhodes seeking to offer his thoughts on what obama might say in the cairo speech. blair had been an admiral, the commander of all u.s. forces in the pacific. he'd been a rhodes scholar and a white house fellow, and at various times a senior military aide for the national security council, the joint chiefs of staff and the intelligence community. he was the military's version of a renaissance man, but for obama's aides, dennis blair was more a figure from ancient history. he graduated from the naval academy and went off for his first assignment on a guided missile destroyer in 1968, before dennis mcdonough was ever born. and blair goes on to tell the speech writers they needed to think about the strategy for the speech, what message would the speech be sending to the leaders of governments with which the united states worked most closely such as egypt, saudi arabia and jordan. um, what would obama's speech convey to israeli and palestinian leaders? rhodes suggested that blair didn't understand the larger purpose. the speech

. >> dennis blair who headed up the intelligence agency said the greats depression. he said this will unravel our social fabric. >> what is the answer. throw more money at it? >> give people jobs. >> let's buy air conditioners. i heard that, too. midnight basketball. it is not working. >> it is made out of great process. >> you will all these murders in chicago and it is not even one of the most violent cities in america. i want to put up the list for you guys. startling that the most dangerous cities in america look at this. nine out of ten of them are democratic. can't just be a coincidence. >> this has nothing to do with democrats and republican. >> it as coincidence that democrats tend to win elections in bigger cities with more of a poorer population and republicans win in smaller cities with more rich people around. that makes a lot of sense. >> are you saying that republicans don't kill each other but democrats do? just a coincidence. >> this is a transpartisan issue. shame on you you for bringing partisanship into this. this is corporatism versus poplytism. i