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-- put away enough to retire on, maybe take a vacation once in a while. i was telling folks in ohio the other day, i remember my favorite vacation when i was 11 years owed, traveling the country with my grandmother and my mom and my sister. once in a while we'd rent a car. a bunch of times we'd just take greyhound buss. sometimes we'd take the train and stay at howard johnson's. as long as there was a little puddle of a pool, i would be happy. you'd go to the ice machine and the vending machine and buy a soda and get the ice and you were really excited about it. and what was important was just...

My sister, we traveled around the country on greyhound buses and on trains, we stayed at howard johnson's and you know, i was 11 and so if there was any kind of swimming pool, it didn't matter how big it was, right, you would spend the whole day there and then you were real excited to go to where the vending machine was and the ice machine and get the ice, and that was like a big deal. >> so that's the president. he did write about that in "dreams of my father" going to seattle, going to california, going to disneyland. this is what he remembers from his childhood, what he wants to talk about,...

>> i grew up in kansas and we did pile everyone in the car and drive to see our grandparents on the other side of the state. we would stop at a place like hojo's and dive for the swimming pool. this is not the life he's leading now. no surprise that he chose this hojo's. this summer he's running for re-election. >> remember when bill clinton chose the same, wyoming, which is not where he wanted to go. but it's kind of a nice story. >> it is a sweet story. >> any 11-year-old who's been on a bus all day and finds a pool is going to be happy. and the ice machine for every 11-year-old, 12-year-old...

Analogous -- there's the president in martha's vineyard. >> i was with him, yes. >> john kerry, that picture is the picture which of course -- >> i think there's a much simpler explanation for the president's walk down memory lane, to try to associate himself with the common touch with american voters who feel uncommonly uncomfortable in this economy. the economy is slow. the trajectory is upward but only nominally so. the president has got to find a way if not to talk to them in an optimistic way about the future, because he's tried for the last two summers to be optimistic, net-net about the...

>> best vacation when i was a kid, my grandmother and my mom and my sister, we traveled around the country on greyhound buses and on trains. if there was any kind of swimming pool, it didn't matter how big it was -- right? you'd spend the whole day there. and you were real excited to go to where the vending machine was and the ice machine. and get the ice. and that was like a big deal. >> is that the contrast of the president talking about growing up staying at howard johnsons, may or may not have been a pool, riding greyhound buses and the water skiing of mitt romney. is this a fair contrast ...