that is meaning jchl. the american people are making a statement about the system and the need to restrekture and reform it to bring democracy to our democracy as you were saying so eloquently. i think the president has to find a way to come to terms with that and to make a statement. i understand that he's president. i understand that he's a democrat. but this is a complicated country. i think he has to find a way to reach out to independents in a way that recognizes who independents are and that takes a stand and makes some moves in the direction of eliminating the structural partisanship that re-enforces the kind of negative political culture that has our country in a strangle hold. >> let me add a couple additional things. when george w. bush was president, he was going overseas on a trip somewhere i don't remember what about or where he was going. there's a column list who wrote a column about the president going overseas. what he said was that for the next period, however long it was, the president w