he is going to surround himself with people who don't necessarily agree with everything he thinks and who are not going to reinforce every thought he has but challenge him and help him see things in a different way. >> the problem is nobody knows anymore what barack obama thinks. what barack obama has done is make him seven an empty vessel once again. because he was so passive over the last two years failing to articulate a rationale for what should have been transformation he let the tea party, one of the most vapid, purile groups out there take over those voices for transformation and now he is embracing their agenda rather than standing up and saying this is what i believe in. and i think that is why people are gasping saying, wait a minute, bill daley is a wonderful guy. nobody will speak ill of him as a person but ideology matters. politics is about ideology and either this president knows how to stand up and fight for it or he doesn't. and if he doesn't, then why will people care about whether it's him or george bush and frankly people are beginning not to care and that's a problem. >> the terrible irony of all of this you are making a case many republicans made from the very beginning that barack obama did not know what he really stood for.