I Was Sailing From Tedium To Apathy

No News Conferences? Interviews Now Only With Friendly Journalists? You Can't Be President Or Vice President And Govern In That Style, As A Sequestered Figure. This Has Been Mr. Bush's Style The Past Few Years, And See Where It Got Us. You Must Address America In Its Entirety, Not As A Sliver Or A Series Of Slivers But As A Full And Whole Entity, A Great Nation Trying To Hold Together. When You Don't, When You Play Only To Your Little Piece, You Contribute To Its Fracturing.

The 2008 Election Settled Nothing, Not Even For A While. Our National Politics Are Reflecting What Appears To Be Going On Geologically, On The Bottom Of The Oceans And Beneath The Crust Of The Earth: The Tectonic Plates Are Moving.

This Is The Democratic Paradox: You Want So Much To Run America And Yet You Seem Not So Fond Of Americans.

The Democratic Party Should Say, "thank You Very Much, But You Know What, We're Going Back To Be A Big-tent Party. Broad On Social Issues Like This, We Are Declaring, Go With Your Heart If You Truly Feel That You Can Be, That You Are Pro-life, And You Wanna Be Pro-life, And A Democrat, Go For It." The Democratic Party Has I Think Been Hurt Very Badly In Terms Of Its National Reputation With This Narrow, Sort Of, You Can't Be In Our Party If You Don't Hold The Right Views On Abortion. It Would Be A Brilliant Political Move If They Opened Up.

A Speech Is Poetry: Cadence, Rhythm, Imagery, Sweep! A Speech Reminds Us That Words, Like Children, Have The Power To Make Dance The Dullest Beanbag Of A Heart.