everyone remembers the i feel your pain line in the '90s. people poked fun at but it worked. i think it is a very shrewd move i about the obama campaign to tee up their convention. they will be coming out of the republican convention and president clinton will draw a very clear contrast to what the romney campaign will put out. there will be no george w. bush, by the way at the republican convention in tampa. i would like terry comment why that is the case. rick: hold on, i will, questions, gentlemen. i want to ask you about the former president's ability to reach a certain voting bloc that the current president has had a tough time reaching and has not been very successful with him, white males. bill clinton, can do that, can't he? >> i think that is precisely what this is about. over the past 3 1/2, four years, barack obama has become disconnected from the middle class, from independent, and ticket-splitting voters, people that were crucial to his election in the last go round. so this, this is about