Defining The Terms Of The Debate Generally

Culture Has Always Been More Important Than Politics. Sometimes Culture Is A Mirror That Reflects What Is; Sometimes It's A Search-light Pointing The Way To What Will Be.

The Media Didn’t Hand It To Obama; After All, The Number One Cable News Channel, Fox, Is Right-wing. The Number One Newspaper, The Wall Street Journal, Also Has A Right-wing Editorial Slant (and Is Owned By The Same Guy Who Owns Fox News). The Number One Talk Radio Show Is Rush Limbaugh, And Sean Hannity Is Number Two, And Glenn Beck Is Number Three. When You Control All The Largest Media Outlets, It’s Time To Stop Grousing About Liberal Media Bias.

You Can Drive Yourself Crazy Trying To Peer Into A Person's Soul--or You Can Do The Sensible Thing: Ask Not What Inner Motives Drive A Politician's Policy Choices But Instead Whether Those Choices Are Good For The Country.

Politics Is Show Business For Ugly People.

But I Think What Happened Was That Clinton Knew How To Fight Back. And The Way He Fought Back Was On The Issues - Being Tough In Staying On The Things That Mattered To People In Their Lives.