 well i think this is a case of the president making peace with the reality that uh... he couldn't win the support would have been away from donations as brett baird has pointed out we're beginning to dry up support for him among major leaders within his own party had slipped away from him uh... and obviously in addition to that the polling was negative very bad uh... his pride i think is what uh... kept this decision uh... open for as long as it did but i think when we look back on the history of this time mike