that he shouldn't talk about it so much. i think the way the president does it is perfect, though. he does tie it to opportunity. he does tie it to what those tax dollars could pay for, to create the middle class that existed for you and me when we were growing up. >> isn't president obama facing the perfect candidate, mitt romney, for the conditions of the country right now, to depict, you know, where the vulture chart is that we show so much versus the middle class? i mean, this is a guy who really has got, what, a tax rate of 13.9%? and he also has a tax policy that is only going to help those redlen liners? >> it's only going to help him. absolutely. it's the perfect candidate, the perfect time. and rick santorum too. he called mitt, he derided mitt as a wall street financier. it's a good day for the president. >> paul ryan, the house budget chair from wisconsin spoke about the president's recent speeches on the "today" show. here it is. >> you know, we've gotten kind of used to this sort of verbal