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>> savannah, the president traveling in maine yesterday, went out of his way to tie health care reform to the economy. said, this is about tax cuts, about small business, this is about job creation. he also went out of his way, i noticed, over and over again to mock not only republicans but people like john heilemann and the press. what was he doing there? >> reporter: his favorite target. i was struck about this. he riffed on the fact that pundits and reporters, as he says, are noting that he's not going anywhere in the polls on health care. he says, look, it's only been a week. you know, i t...

It's been a week, folks. >> well, he's not wrong. >>, no i was going to say, first of all, it was pretty funny, i have to say and i think he's got washington media and political culture pretty nailed. it's an age old complaint. everybody always covers the horse race as to whose up, whose down. president obama does not miss an opportunity to rail against what he calls the cable chatter. so, you know, i think he makes a fair point, no question about it, but this is obviously something that gets talked about. >> on the other side of the ledger is the fact when you look at the health care polling,...

President needs a strong world view, a fundamental vision of why things are the way they are and how they ought to be, which can be simplified into a few key ideas and imjs and short idea allege. for obama and his advisers, there is no worse pejorative. pretty strong words. >> yes, it is. this is a group of people that don't like the typecasting of washington. you always hear the president talking about the cable chatter, right and left, and they wanted to break through that and find a center. ironically, by not being able to secure that center, what they have done is made this town much more ...

I don't know, probably not deserving of very much, but i don't know if we deserve all the attention we're getting from the president. but we're here and having here for a while. >> ed, you're a part of that cable chatter. >> i've been -- i was in the white house when available was in its infancy, but certainly it's had an impact. the bottom line he's the 4th man to serve in the oval office. every single president at some point in time has complained about the immediaty, whether it was pamphlet in the case of george washington or cable television in today. i've found the presidents have two gre...

House, a story like this would send nixon nixon was spying on people because of leaks. president obama strikes me as a guy who is uninterested in the inside baseball stories. he even committed the heresy, and this annoyed me, not to watch cable chatter, and as a pundit, you for found that offensive, but i like the idea he's not obsessed with the inside nonsense of that article. >> and you can't blame rahm emanuel not for making the president do something he should have. ultimately the president of the united states, it's his decision, and you have to respect his decision. you can give him the ...