i agree with bill maher, i agree with everything the president is trying to do now. democrats have explain to the people what the bill had wrong with that. everybody is afraid to do the wrong thing. i think more guts have to be displayed, and we need a progressive party in this country. we do not have one. i do not see that mr. obama is living up to a lot of stuff that he said on the campaign trail, and i find that disappointing. as far as health care goes, profits need to be eliminated. you need to have a not-for- profit health-care system amongst the choices that you give the american people. host: paulette, we're going to jump in because we are out of time. last comment on the phone, richmond, indiana, republican line. caller: some of these callers calling in do not really understand that the problem we have in our economy is not really the american people, it is our politicians. the democrats created fannie mae and freddie mac in mandated them to give loans to people who could not afford that. there are destroying our economy, the democrats are. there are destroy

mill maher made a joke that being pro war was supporting the troops and he said something to the effect, i have never heard anybody say i love the bush administration, it's those dam troops i hate. i mean, it's not true. those of us who are against war are against the policy that puts you, for example, in harm's way, gets you injured and defines your life for the next 40 years. we should not be at war all over the world. we should not have 150 military bases all over the world. we should not be fighting war after war. we shouldn't be spending a trillion dollars a year which incidentally is half of the world's budget on armaments in war, and we spend half. the rest of the world spends another trillion. it's an outrage in this country that should be and should be so great. >> host: we have another question from a member of our studio audience. >> i'm from chicago, and near west side, and bill, i want to get back to education with a question. that is, what i would like to know is if mayor daily, instead of choosing mr. herbert as our superintendent of schools had chosen bill ayers in that