My Job Is To Be A Spokesman

That Someone Like Obama Could Be Elected President Of The United States - With Its Unrivaled Power And Prestige - Has Begun To Restore The Country's And The World's Faith In America As The Land Of Opportunity.

Bill Clinton Sitting On Air Force One Getting His Hair Cut While People Around The Country Cooled Their Heels And Waited For Him, Became A Metaphor For A Populist President Who Had Gotten Drunk With The Perks Of His Own Power And Was Sort Of, You Know, Not Sensitive To What People Wanted.

Every Press Secretary Faces An Enormous Amount Of Information. Events Move Really Fast. You're Responsible For A Tremendous Amount Of Information, And Again, A Tremendous Amount On Competing Agendas. Not Everybody Grease In The White House.

Palin Was A Political Hail Mary, A Long Bomb In The Closing Minutes Of A Game That John Mccain And Co. Were Certain To Lose. They Didn't Care If She Had The Policy Or Political Or Emotional Capacity To Serve As Vice President, Let Alone President. They Were Willing To Drive The Country Off A Cliff, If That's What It Took To Win.

After I Left The White House, I Kept A Foothold In The Business Of American Politics; As A Talk-show Host, Analyst, Commentator, Speechmaker, And Occasional Writer. I Was No Longer A Practitioner, But I Was Still A Partisan, A Democrat, A Blue-stater Through And Through.