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CHO: Welcome back. Protesters are taking on the North Carolina pastor who told his congregation recently that gays should be put inside an electric fence. Well, a crowd showed up at Catawba County, North Carolina to denounce the inflammatory sermon that Pastor Charles Worley delivered on Mother's Day. His comments came just days after North Carolina voters approved a statewide referendum which essentially outlawed gay marriage. 6 percent unemployment. Well, a couple of years ago that would have sounded horrible. These days it sounds pretty good, doesn't it? And one candidate for president is making a promise he can make it happen. Our Don Lemon spoke with CNN contributors Will Cain and LZ Granderson.</s>DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: So, guys, this week Mitt Romney made a prediction about unemployment if he's elected. Take a listen.</s>MITT ROMNEY, GOP CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT: I can tell you that over a period of four years, by virtue of the policies that we will put in place, we will get the unemployment rate down to 6 percent or perhaps a little lower.</s>LEMON: OK, so, political analysts say if you win the economy, then you win the election. But is that kind of like promising $2.50 a gallon gas prices, which Newt Gingrich did?</s>WILL CAIN, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: Yes, honestly, it kind of is. I mean, I don't know why you would go on the record and put a specific goal on what your unemployment targets would be should you be elected. He should have learned a lesson from the guy who, I don't know, who's sitting in office right now, who promised below 8 percent unemployment if you passed a stimulus bill. How your policies directly relate to the specific unemployment rate, I don't think that's a wise thing to be doing. By the way, Don, I think here's why you can get away with it. He is saying, look, I'll be there for four years. Surely I'll get it after four years.</s>LEMON: And there are some estimates that show if everything remains as is, regardless of who the president is, then he's pretty much on target. That's what they are expecting. But let's move on, because LZ, Will brings up a good point. In 2009, President Obama said that if I don't turn this economy around, then I don't deserve a second term. Does he deserve a second term?</s>LZ GRANDERSON, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: Absolutely, because here's the thing that we need to start talking about is that no one is creating jobs without it being affected by the global economy. We need to have that conversation more. In other words, we are no longer in a vacuum. We can't just say we can just fix America. We need to be cognizant of how everything else is happening in Europe and their economy, what's going on with China, what's happening in Japan. All of these are factors in terms of unemployment. And so if he is able to communicate that, and despite navigating those choppy waters still keep us at or lower by 7 percent or 8 percent by the time he gets there in November, I think he definitely deserves a second term based upon the economy.</s>LEMON: We talked about this. I knew it was going to be a big deal. But this Cory Booker thing, he really stepped in it when he talked, when he, you know, denounced the Obama strategy in going against Bain Capital and private equity here. The question is, well, they all get money, all the candidates get money from private equity.</s>CAIN: Right.</s>LEMON: So does this really have legs, and does the -- can the voter distinguish between private equity and Bain Capital, which might be a legitimate place to look to find out Romney's records on jobs? First, LZ, on jobs, first to you,</s>LZ. GRANDERSON: That's like the $5 billion question, right? Can the president take this conversation and move it away from attacking, you know, private equity, which is what it sounds like, and actually addressing his time at Bain. And right now he's struggling to do that. He needs to focus more in, not necessarily on how much money was made, but just on his management style and what was left in his wake. That's what he needs to focus in on. I still agree with Cory Booker. He's right in terms of the tone.</s>LEMON: So you know what, LZ, the thing is, I don't know if the voter gets that nuance. I think that they may be too smart for their own good, because if you're --</s>CAIN: No, they are too smart, period. They're too smart, period. See, the problem is, truth is not on Barack Obama or anyone making that argument's side. You want to say that Bain Capital is some vulture capitalist out there in society, vampire capitalist, however, whatever negative adjective you want to put on that -- they load companies up with debt, suck the profits out and lay off employees. You have to answer then why Bain has been in business since 1987? No one would fund an operation like that.</s>GRANDERSON: He's running for president of the United States. He's not running for CEO of the United States. If his goal was to make it like a very clean machine and make as much money as possible, great. But here's the thing, if you're laying off people, you still need to take care of those people who don't have jobs. So on the one hand, you can have a net growth, sure, but you still have to be concerned about the individuals who don't have jobs. That's what the president of the United States does. If he wants to be a CEO, that's fantastic, but he wants to be president. That's why he needs to be cautious of what he's talking about with this.</s>LEMON: All right, we want to move on. It is memorial weekend, so we're going to take it down a little bit. A lot of people are vacationing. I don't want all of this -- you guys are making them anxious as they are watching. They're like, hey--</s>LEMON: -- enjoy my margarita, how dare you. So listen, I have a bit of trivia for you. Don't change horses in midstream was a campaign slogan for which candidate for president? Was it Ronald Reagan, was it FDR, was it Eisenhower? Will, first?</s>CAIN: I have -- honestly -- I'm going to go with Eisenhower.</s>LEMON: LZ?</s>GRANDERSON: I'm going to go with Reagan.</s>LEMON: You're both wrong. It was FDR. FDR in 1944. 1944.</s>CAIN: With all those terms, he had a long stream he was asking nobody to change horses in.</s>LEMON: You guys have to brush up on your trivia. OK. A lot of people traveling by automobile this weekend. It's a big Memorial weekend, a big travel weekend. So, LZ, you were born in 1972.</s>GRANDERSON: Yes, sir.</s>LEMON: What was the average price of gas in 1972? Was it 55 cents, 65 cents or 78 cents?</s>GRANDERSON: I'm going to go with 65 cents.</s>LEMON: You are wrong. It was 55 cents. All right. 55 cents, come on, guys. All right. So here's, Will, you were born in 1975. Average price of gas, 47 cents, 57 cents or 69 cents.</s>CAIN: 69 cents. It hiked greatly in those three years between when LZ was born and I was born.</s>LEMON: 57 cents, you're wrong. I'm not going to tell you the year I was born, but the average price of gas was 32 cents, so I'm way longer in the tooth than both of you.</s>CAIN: Deduction, deduction. That means you were born --</s>LEMON: Thank you, guys. Have a great weekend.</s>GRANDERSON: Thank you.</s>CHO: 32 cents a gallon. Don? Right. Coming up, hitting a major home -- Major League home run, rather, is challenging enough, but today one player hit one over the fence without holding on to the bat. Now even if you're not a sports fan, you definitely want to see this. Also, each week CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta profiles innovators from all walks of life and all fields of endeavor. The program is called "The Next List," so we want to show you a little preview here. Next Sunday, Sanjay looks at David Peterson, who created a new language for one of TV's most popular shows.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The Dothraki are a kind of a wandering tribe in this kind of imaginary world that George R.R. Martin and his books have created. They're first and foremost warriors.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We took the tribe from George Martin's best- selling series, and in George's books the Dothraki speak their own language. And we thought we could create that fictional language for a few lines. And we tried to do that, and it sounded like gobbledygook.</s>DAVID PETERSON, LINGUIST: That's where I came in. I created the language for the Dothraki and worked as a translator on the show.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I was a little bit skeptical, but once we actually got the Dothraki language that David Peterson created and we saw the actors performing the lines, there was no question. It made a huge difference in those scenes.