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Was a pool at one of these motels, even if it was just tiny, i would be very excited and the ice machine was exciting and the vending machine, i was really excited about that, but this is at a time when you didnt have 600 stations and 24 hours worth of cartoons and so at night if the tv was on, it was what your parents decided to watch. my mother, that summer, would turn on the tv every night during this vacation and watch the watergate hearings. i cant say that i understood everything that was ...

>> at the point of impact, i had to close my eyes because i didnt want to see what was going to happen. >> he is trapped outside in a 2 by 2 space between an ice machine and the wrecked pickup truck. >> i was scared. my heart was beating 1,000 miles a minute. >> amid the terror and confusion, he manages to keep a clear head. >> i jumped over the railing, called 911. >> 911. >> yeah, we just had an accident at hatfield mccoy quick stop. somebody hit our pump and its on fire. >> then i went back i...

Missile. barely missed me, barely missed the cashiers head by inches. >> the pickup crashes into the building, sending a wooden post, like a javelin through the front window straight at the cashiers head. >> at the point of impact, i had to close my eyes because i didnt want to see what was going to happen. >> he is trapped outside in a 2 x 2 space between an ice machine and the wrecked pickup truck. >> i was scared. my heart was beating 1,000 miles a minute. >> amid the terror and confusion, he...

Pool somewhere, it could look like a puddle, it could be so small, i was so excited and you would go to the ice machine and the vending machine -- i was 11 years old. that was a big deal filling up that bucket of ice and getting that soda. and the point was that your vacation didnt have to be fancy. it just gave you a sense of how you could spend time with each other. that was part of that american dream. and then the notion that you could retire with dignity and respect after a lifetime of work...

This contrast with mitt romney. its in the stump speech. the president will talk about his trips to howard johnstons and his joy of using the ice machine and greyhound bus rides as a kid as a clear way with contrasting himself, mitt romney at that time up in new hampshire on his boat at his lake house. in all these interactions, the president is really trying to drive home the idea that he can connect with voters in a way that romney cant. and in practice, all politicians do this. you watch them...

-- put away enough to retire on, maybe take a vacation once in a while. i was telling folks in ohio the other day, i remember my favorite vacation when i was 11 years owed, traveling the country with my grandmother and my mom and my sister. once in a while wed rent a car. a bunch of times wed just take greyhound buss. sometimes wed take the train and stay at howard johnsons. as long as there was a little puddle of a pool, i would be happy. youd go to the ice machine and the vending machine and b...

My sister, we traveled around the country on greyhound buses and on trains, we stayed at howard johnsons and you know, i was 11 and so if there was any kind of swimming pool, it didnt matter how big it was, right, you would spend the whole day there and then you were real excited to go to where the vending machine was and the ice machine and get the ice, and that was like a big deal. >> so thats the president. he did write about that in "dreams of my father" going to seattle, going to california...

>> i grew up in kansas and we did pile everyone in the car and drive to see our grandparents on the other side of the state. we would stop at a place like hojos and dive for the swimming pool. this is not the life hes leading now. no surprise that he chose this hojos. this summer hes running for re-election. >> remember when bill clinton chose the same, wyoming, which is not where he wanted to go. but its kind of a nice story. >> it is a sweet story. >> any 11-year-old whos been on a bus all day...

Analogous -- theres the president in marthas vineyard. >> i was with him, yes. >> john kerry, that picture is the picture which of course -- >> i think theres a much simpler explanation for the presidents walk down memory lane, to try to associate himself with the common touch with american voters who feel uncommonly uncomfortable in this economy. the economy is slow. the trajectory is upward but only nominally so. the president has got to find a way if not to talk to them in an optimistic way a...

>> best vacation when i was a kid, my grandmother and my mom and my sister, we traveled around the country on greyhound buses and on trains. if there was any kind of swimming pool, it didnt matter how big it was -- right? youd spend the whole day there. and you were real excited to go to where the vending machine was and the ice machine. and get the ice. and that was like a big deal. >> is that the contrast of the president talking about growing up staying at howard johnsons, may or may not have...