and told the story and it became a staple of every one of his speeches. the thing that he does so well is he takes these vignettes from his travels and from people he's met, and he turns them into inspirational parables and speech parts that lift, and this was the close to his speech, and every single staffer who traveled with him could recite every single word. he dusted it off here like a golden oldie because -- >> which we haven't heard in a while. >> no, he hasn't. >> it's somewhat ironic in the sense that in 2007 the fired up, ready to go was are you fired up and ready to go to beat hillary clinton. >> yeah, yeah. and it happened in south carolina. >> this is the barack obama you remember from 2007-2008. during his eight years as president of the united states, he was a bit more subdued. >> yeah. but, you know, there's always this thing about, well, he doesn't really like politics.