was the former governor of illinois as jackson was trying to get that seat. that was left vacant when president obama left to become president. now jackson has denied those allegations. but moving on, president clinton is talking tea party. in fact, what he's saying, john, is that the democratic party should not be engaging the tea party. in fact, the democratic party should be focusing instead on solutions and telling voters how they can make things better. this is how he described the tea party founders. they tend to be pretty far right extremists whose goal is to destroy the power of government to mediate the power of corporations. and he told our own wolf blitzer that yesterday on cnn. and sarah palin herself is talking tea party. all seems to be a big tea party. she put out a video yesterday highlighting the movement. it was an 80-second video called simply "the tea party." i've got to tell you, to me it really seemed like a presidential video in many ways because it used footage of palin