with the book, i am reminded about what candidate obamas said when he said i am a were shocked -- rorshack. people bring to him their views of the country, their anger and pain. feel he has done what he could in a system where you have a republican party that was determined to take him down. they did not want to govern with him. my sense is that he wanted to bring a different kind of politics to the country because of the nature of who he is. you come into washington and want to play kumba ya politics. you look in the eyes of mitch mcconnell, jim demenint, and realize they are out to take you down. you need a plan be. there was no plan b. there was not a. it. -- there was not a pivot. he had extraordinary skills as a speaker during the campaign. he moved this country, millions of people. he angered millions and made them think he was a socialist and other matters. but he has not used those skills in a consistent, powerful way to tell a narrative about the challenges, what the country is going through, and where he is taking the country. by playing on the republican field of deficits and de

it's always interesting when obama speak, it's the rorshack test. it is true.unity. you tend to have to work twice as hard to accomplish half as much. there are a lot of structural things about racism with loans and college acceptances that prove that to be truech i think what is more telling is obama spent most of his time talking about individuals and how they have to give back. he didn't talk about structurally the kind of things the men from morehouse can do to change this country to make it better, not just for african-americans, but for everyone. he said that at the end. he didn't talk about structure. >> well, do you the from this day forth we will hear more of this kind of speech from the president in the black community? >> i doubt it. it would be nice. i don't see much of a difference from this speech that i couldn't hear from clarence thomas or ward conley. if anyone thought he would stand ford and push for a quality for eall people. i think anyone who supported him has learned that lesson now. this speech is a kind of boiler plate makes you feel goo