. >> and a debate now on the obama presidency with new york magazine columnist jonathan chate and matt welch, editor at arge from reason magazine. dave smith will get the event started. >> now we -- as a tradition of the sojo forum we begin with a warm-up act from a great libertarian comic. back by popular demand, dave smith, whose great podcast, part of the problem, i faithfully listen to, here he is, libertarian comic, dave smith. dave, please come up. dave oh, thank you, gene. wow, what a great event. wow, libertarian comic even sounds boring to me. i heard that intro and i was like, this sucks. will this guy talk about the budget for a long time? ok. obama, the great debate about obama, is he great or not? i don't know. this will be a lot of fun. i can't wait to see how you guys do. personally speaking i do think obama is great at lots of things. like killing people with sky robots, he's amazing at that. he's best ever, i'd say. spending money, he's like a god. spending other people's money, he's like m.j. in 1996. just like untouchable. i'm sorry. this is more a libertarian event.