well as doing what howard says, which is cast forward. if he doesn't portray that, that sense of forward movement, you know, he won't have done what george bush in 2004, which was to say i know things are bad in iraq but we're a whole lot more secure than we were before 9/11. he's got to make that sale. >> you got to figure out did george bush had v a comparable james carville on his flank as opposed to karl rove. what do you make of the statement that 49% of the americans feel that the gop is trying to sabotage the president for personal gain? >> that's something the president has to talk about but he can't talk about it too much. i don't think he can win the lebs by listing a host of factors and people and institutions to blame for the political and economic predicament he's in. he can let that sink in and he can emphasize it perhaps by pushing some legislation in washington and daring and