well, look, this is an exacting staff, and they do things on the schedule and david plouffe and jim massenave up any, but these are not my source, but they have a very, very strict plan and this week was to talk about the campaign roll out, and then a $25 million ad buy in which to go over the accomplishment list, and here we are talking about gay marriage, and it has them tied in knots. >> did they pull back the money? >> i dont n't know if they wast the money, but certainly, a lot of it is spent. >> and now the vice president as you understand the role without getting too personal about this and the sources, is the role of the vice president basically to operate within the confines, the discipline of the white house operation? in other words, he's not an individual thinker, and his job is to play a role supporting the president. it is an operative role, and not a creative role. >> theoretically. >> that is the way they they look at it? >> that is the way that the white houses look at it, but again, someone who is, one, used to being his own voice. >> he has been a senator for 30 years. >>