is it robert ruben was offered in the latter days of the campaign a dollar a year job to have an office in the west wing when obama was thinking, hey, i might win this thing. by the late fall, by october, citi group is collapsing, but ruben's left and right hand, tim geithner and larry summers, they get the jobs. what happened there? why did volcker and that team get washed away in favor of team b? obama will reflect in this in his memoirs, but there's evidence at this point that, well, the things that are very natural happened. you know, here's a man who is not an expert in finance or economics. he, of course, is an extraordinary brilliant man, but, you know, he broke into the lead in september by vesting mccain on these very issues spending time with his wall street gang and advisers, and mccain was no match for obama, and even republicans says, gee, that guy kind of gets it, and this other fellow, mccain is not buzz word come pliant on this stuff, and when obama breaks into the lead -- you know, the book is sympathetic to obama and feeling what he's feeling. if you feel what he's fee