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An a, a plus on those categories and he thinks nobody gives credit. where he takes the bait on this, he feels he has to be his own promotor because nobody else is there. but it's not what a president should be doing. and in the long term it hurts him. >> you have to be able to pat your head and rub your tummy. the job is you're doing more than you campaigned on. his inability to take any -- look, this is not the time to grade yourself, as the professor you never let your students grade themselves. rather than grade himself, the president has lacked empathy for people in tragedy. it's not a mat...

Grade yourself in the debate. what would you give yourself? >> the grading is going to be done by the american people. but i can tell you why i wase happy with my performances, because i think what the voters are looking for, i think they're not interested in the back and forth, the schoolyard insults that a lot of the debate focused on. they're interested in substance. and there is a real difference in the records of the different candidates that on this stage an awful lot of what i call campaign conservatives, people who talk a good game, bt they haven't walked the walk. i think people are l...

Whenever a sitting president is asked this question, and they all are, rank yourself, grade yourself, the only appropriate answer is to say we're doing the best we can, given the circumstances, this is our agenda, we va lot more work to do, and then you stop talking, you zip your lip and let the historians judge and you can even say you can let history judge or accomplishments and what we have tried to do here. for him to proactively put himself in a group with lincoln, who pretty much singlehandedly saved the republic and two of the most progressive presidents we've ever known, fdr and lbj i ...