jeff's point, i've been e-mailing some people and the last time the president went through this and in the transition to the new administration, they had an inside legal group and an outside group saying who do you think are the best people out there? one of the people just sent me an e-mail saying i would put elena kagan at the top of the list for the very reasons he said, she is now the solicitor general of the united states and she is also 49 years old. if you go back to the pictures you just showed, we have a conservative base to this court, scalia, now a bit older and been on the court for quite some time. alito, pointed as a relatively young man. ruth bader ginsburg has been on the court. so president obama may yet get another choice. he still has more than two and a half years in just his his first term. one of the things you have as as president is look at impact. justice souter no long or the court. look at the impact these