in january, 2008, they shook hands between back-to-back republican and democratic debates at wmur in new hampshire. and the president's last meaningful call to romney may have been when ann romney was diagnosed with cancer, romney said in early january of 2009, quote, he was kind enough to call our home when my wife was ill and he said that he and michelle had my wife in their prayers and i said, mr. president-elect, ann and i have you in our prayers. and we do. finally, last night romney held a high dollar fundraiser at a 95-room estate in hillsboro, california, cochaired by hewlett-packard's meg whitman former bain employee who just days ago announced plans to layoff 27,000 workers. not exactly the picture the romney campaign wanted but romney laid into solyndra at this fundraiser saying, quote, who wants to put money in a solar company when a government puts a half a billion into one of its choice? they don't understand how the free economy works. democrats attacking romney for the optics of the high dollar fund raising circuit which the president is clearly benefiting from as wel