Much Of What Candidates Have To Do

The Terrorists Are Going To Believe The Worst About America. They Think We Spy On Everything. They Think We Kill Everyone. They Think - They Don't Believe That We Believe In Democracy, Right? They Don't Believe We Have Limits On Our Government.

The Journalist's Job Is To Get The Story By Breaking Into Their Offices, By Bribing, By Seducing People, By Lying, By Anything Else To Break Through The Palace Guard.

When Howard Dean Started Saying Some Honest Things, They Hung Him.

Much Of What Candidates Have To Do Is Raise Money And Appeal To Constituencies Or Interest Groups That Can Provide That Money.

The Death Of American Liberalism As A Significant Moral Force Can Be Traced To The Point In When President Bill Clinton Signed Legislation That Effectively Ended The Main Federal Anti-poverty Program And Turned The Fate Of Welfare Recipients, 70 Percent Of Whom Were Children, Over To The Tender Mercies Of The States. With A Stroke Of The Pen, Clinton Eliminated What Remained Of New Deal-era Compassion For The Poor And Codified Into Law The "tough Love" Callousness That His Republican Allies In The Congress, Led By Newt Gingrich, Had Long Embraced.