a north carolinian, i have some north carolina friends here, charles and is anly, every time you find a literate north carolinian, this fellow writing home to his family, said the army loved him and sort of in the same vein as the cleric, i believe he was taken away to learn us not to depend upon the arm of flesh. a punishment for being too much in the south. a similarly piased virginiian reached the blissful conclusion in a letter that it is all for the best. about but he could not help in the very same letter admitting in a little bit less relentlessly optimistic view, i almost feel like we are without a general now. the few southerners who were still not impressed by jackson, even after his valley triumphs, were primarily motivated it seems to me by jealousy. general joe johnston who had more than ample reason for jell jealousy of almost everyone, insisted that he was jackson was rather simply possessed with the sublime enthusiasm. he did have sublime enthusiasm, but perhaps more than jack stoo johnston was willing to admit. a woman made the mistake of speaking glowingly about jack

i am proud to have an opportunity to introduce a -- an old friend of mine, a proud north carolinian and an east carolina pirate and one of this country's foremost education leaders and innovators dr. dpreer. while dr. grier has served as the superintendent across six states he has experienced the public education situation from all levels. a graduate of vanderbilt and as a teacher, a coach and a high school principal. i first met him in 2000 when he was the superintendent of my hometown of the gilford county in north carolina. i happen to represent that county in the state senate at the time. during that eight years, dr. grier led the district as it cut the dropout rate in half to less than 3%, increased the high school graduation rate from 63% to nearly 80%. received one of the -- and the center for creative leadership to help train the leaders and as we know today, early college institutes across the country wildly seen as one of the most effective ways to steer our low income students on a path to success. then dr. grier continued his track record in san diego where he helped reduce

. >> david hersey a fellow north carolinian or carolinian i should say. a question for you with regard come you didn't really speak about it but given the kind of state of economic disaster that we are in under this president and the and the state of the union he talked about you know the fact that we look strong in the world and some other things that i felt weren't true. could you speak just briefly about how our economic situation is impacting our ability to get things done around the world and leverage foreign policy and how it is tied in with the debate right now? >> it was hard to listen to that speech. it was like we were living in different worlds. wide-awake canceling a major pipeline of oil supply from our biggest energy provider and then next week saying we are doing everything we can to create and make america more independent. a number of things like that, like making us a manufacturing nation. i go to a lot of manufactures and the biggest problem they have is obama karen dodds frank, the government pick eating winners and losers, the lack of

. >> bag carolinian, i can see your perspective you not sure he needs north carolina, he got it lastliberals in your caucus. is everybody pretty cool with this guy now? he stood up for women's rights on the issue we just talked about, even though it seems like an archaic discussion about birth control he definitely stood with the women who care most about it, people like boxer and secretary sebelius, but it seems like he has got the high hand right now. he has got the rope in his hand, if you will, whatever the phrase is he seems to be on top. >> well, i think all along, chris, the president has understood where the american people are and of course, he stood with women because the overwhelming majority of women believe in contra accepts in this country and he did get it right on straightening things out with the church and the separation between church and state but also gotten it right on the economy. the american people can see that our economy has been growing for 23 straight months. we have been creating jobs and opportunity. we need to extend unemployment insurance for those wh