he always had throughout his life to public service in a different venue. steve, you talk about the contradictions of his life post election. he has this mansion, well 10,000 square feet, if we re talking romney rich, what is the square footage of a true mansion. uses 20 times the electricity of the average u.s. household. he wants to talk about environmentalism in an an inconvenient truth and he sold current tv to al jazeera funded by qatari oil money. a series of seeming contradictions and the ultimate one, do his actions befit a nobel prize win centre someone who used to be vice president, someone who would have been president? he constantly has to sort of grapple with all of that. there s a couple standards against which we judge al. the interesting thing here, too, is he s become and still is a political kind of lightning rod. obviously the right wing hates him and uses every chance it can get to pounce on him. it s kind of interesting how
i m suzanne malveaux and this hour in cnn newsroom, we are focusing on paul ryan, mitt romney s choice for vice president. i want to get right to it. paul ryan campaigns today as the number two man on the republican ticket and the man with the plan to remake medicare and medicaid and other programs. critics say it is a plan that will make things worse for the poor and the middle-class. we will also tell you about ryan s personal story and his personal experience. we will examine key parts of the budget plan and the proposed changes to medicare and medicaid. president obama comes out swinging against mitt romney running mate, and the obama campaign calling paul ryan s budget proposal radical. the president says it is the wrong vision for the country, and in iowa a couple of minutes ago, he blasts romney team s economic plan. what is holding us back right now is washington politics. you ve got folks on the other side who think that compromise is a dirty word. and whose main