John Sununu's a Teddy Bear You recently described the vaguely Southern accent the president uses in speeches as "phony as his jaunt when he runs up and down Marine One." What exactly is a phony jaunt? Every time you see him climbing up or down stairs, he elevates his arms and does this pumping, trying to look like a well-trained and trim dynamic individual. It's something he does all the time, particularly when he's climbing up to a podium to speak or address a crowd. This president understands that he got elected on the basis of style and not substance, and I think he's trying to preserve style. Every time I see you on TV for Romney, I think back to 1988 when, as governor, you helped George H. W. Bush win the New Hampshire primary and then became his first chief of staff. Should Romney win this thing, what do you want to do? Retire, play golf and ski. Really and truly. I'm 73 years old, I got into this because I was scared to death for my kids and my grandkids and I want to get Mitt Romney elected president so he can fix America. What if President-elect Romney calls you and says, "I know that you know a great deal about nuclear energy, and I'd love for you to be secretary of energy." I'd say, thank you, Mr. President. I got you this far, don't blow it. I'm going to play golf. During the Democratic convention, did you feel as if there was a lot of football spiking over Osama bin Laden? The president is trying to take credit for following the strategy and the tactics put into place by George W. Bush. At some point the president is going to have to explain why he was timid on the first two or three opportunities that we had. Thank goodness Hillary Clinton was there was to convince him to do the right thing. You seem to be referring to Richard Miniter's book that claimed the president skipped three earlier opportunities to kill Bin Laden. The White House called those claims "an utter fabrication." The gripe should be with the author. Based on the description in that book, this has some validity. So the complaint is that the president didn't kill Bin Laden fast enough? His trying to take credit for having been decisive belies the fact that he wasn't decisive until pressed by others. Didn't Biden and Robert Gates advise against the mission? I have no idea what happened in that White House. I do find it unseemly to see the intelligence leaks coming out of there trying to boost this president's image. You resigned from Bush's cabinet before his 1992 re-election campaign. Do you think the result would have been different had you been around? People have said it, but we'll never know. Ross Perot cost President Bush his re-election. I would have urged the campaign to be tougher on Perot from the beginning. But I don't say it, others do. Like who? People while they're sipping their second wine, and I'm sipping my second Diet Coke, reminisce and are kind enough to make that point. You called the Obama administration "losers who have run this country into the ground" because it "failed so miserably" creating jobs. George H. W. Bush ran for re-election with a 7.4 percent unemployment rate, while Obama has 8.1 coming out of a much deeper recession. Aren't they pretty much equivalent? This one is 8.1, but if you included all the people who have lost hope and stopped looking for work, it would be around 11 percent. George Bush may have had a peak in unemployment on Election Day, but the period of the slowdown that he was dealing with was shorter. I am a little disappointed that you haven't jumped down my throat. Part of me was hoping this would devolve into the cable-news-style screaming I've seen you have with Lawrence O'Donnell and Soledad O'Brien. I only jump down people's throats when they come across as merely reading the talking points that were sent out by the White House the day before. They assume that I can't read the same blogs they read. I'm really warm and gentle and kind.