 challenge that yeah no you have to do that you're absolutely right george mitchell's advice to you was don't do anything that will put us on the front page of the washington post i give a similar advice to every candidate who calls and asks for my advice and that is don't swing at a pitch in the dirt yeah nobody can hit a pitch in the dirt yeah and when you swing at it all you're doing is wasting a strike you know and i think it's the same advice in other words just be sensible that's all you have to be is be sensible