mr. sean hill. [applause]. >> i want to read from blood and brown liquor today. this book is about my home town in georgia. it's also where [inaudible] is from. and i started researching the history of [inaudible] and sort of fell into the history of black people there because it was not taught in school. so -- in order to write about the history i had to invent a character to explore this history. the character's name is si loss wright. >> first poem i will read is titled silos write at age 71914. it's about silos follows a fishing riggel in the shallows. he describes the line in his tablet as much pride in that line as a man and his son. he giggles and goes on. the next letters come easy. with this he will have more than a mark to bind. rambling across the page again and again in messy rows along it flows until he goes off the page's edge. he smiles. he's surprised to hear when his mouth opens. that's mine. so, this really lovely book that georgia put together for me has great painting on the cover. a painting of mcintosh street in georgia painted in the 1940's

mr. brad woodhouse, our democrat. sean spicer, our republican. thank you. brad, let me begin with you. i'm sure you saw the hill poll today.uished newspaper and website. majority believe that obama has changed the country for the worse. he won't pass the reagan question, are you better off than you were four years ago? what's your take, brad? >> look, i think people are better off than they were four years ago. four years ago around this time we saw the economy falling off a cliff. when the president took office we were losing 750,000 jobs a month. we are gaining jobs each month. we have for 27, 28 consecutive months to the tune of 4.4 million jobs. we need to do more. but we'll have a conversation, larry. people will have an opportunity and in many ways this campaign is just getting started. we'll have an opportunity to lay out a vision for the future. so do you want to continue in the direction the president has the country going which has been making progress or do you want to go back -- >> to the bad old days. >> to what george bush was doing. >> looks like, sean, people want to go back to the bad old days. this is a h