front of him mean did not feel that it was important to give any creedence to the comment about treason. he did subsequently, after being peppered by the press to address that, he addressed it and said, no, i don't believe the president should be tried for treason. so i think in the moment he didn't see it reached a level that he should dignify it with some level of response because the press then followed up. he did. that happens all the time on campaign photocopies will happen again. president obama himself will find himself in that situation at some point as well. >> governor rendell, we have seen a lot of ugly attacks on this president, both in 2008 and this year. in 2008, john mccain finally denounced -- wanted to call the president a muslim. let me show this to you. >> i can't trust obama. i have read about him and he's not -- he's a -- he's an arab.