>> so, george, how much of this exercise on tuesday night is just about the president trying to change the subject and change the american people's attention from obamacare and all the problems with that to the subject that worked so well for him in 2012 which is the middle class and supporting these build -- building these ladders of opportunity. >> yes. well, it is a lot of changing the subject but what kind of a ladder is he going to build? in baseball you play what's called small ball, stealing bailses, bunting when you can't do anything else. this is the miniaturization of the president's agenda. a 23rd increase in the minimum wage since 1938? it may and good thing, a bad thing, but it's of marginal importance to the economy and of no importance to the middle class. universal preschool which, as you say, he endorses last year. we've had almost 50 years of experience with head start. the government's own studies show that the benefits from universal preschool are a,