it is not to say that team obama could not have made it whole after the word skrine in -- financial crisis, but the criticism is probably from the left rather than the right. tavis: will get to the issue of where they home from the left. mika it me at of the blue with the question i would never have thought about. she said let me step outside your comfort zone and ask you, if your romney what would your strategy be? how would you run against the white house on the economic issues? i fumbled around for about 10 seconds and decided on the reagan question, are you better off now than you were 10 years ago? if romney take that tack to ask the american people, whatever you think of me, are you better off now than you were four years ago, how does the obama administration respond to that? >> it is very tough. the argument they have been making is remember how bad it was. three and a half or four years ago. we now know the economy was shrinking at an 9% annual rate. auto manufacturers were on the brink of a big collapse, not just the auto industry but the whole supply chain in the midwest. banks