But The Frat Boys Were All Frivolous

Everyone Who Knew [barack] Obama From Being In Hyde Park Knew He Was The Smartest Guy In Any Room He Walked Into; A Decent, Compassionate, Lovely Person; Pragmatic, Middle-of-the-road And Ambitious.

That's In The Nature Of Social Change. So You Can Analyze What Didn't Work, But It's Very Hard To Predict What Will Work.

I Wish I Had Been Wiser. I Wish I Had Been More Effective, I Wish I'd Been More Unifying, I Wish I'd Been More Principled.

Even There, [barack] Obama's Generals, His Pentagon, They're Telling Him What To Do. And The Force For Gay Rights Is Inevitable. And You Can Say Obama Will Help Us, And Maybe He Will, But Only If We Have Something On The Ground That Will Make Him Help Us. Frankly, The Gay Movement On The Ground Has Been One Of The Great Propulsive Things That Has Made Politicians Do What They Do.

The Us Is Indeed A Terrorist Nation. ...it's Also The Greatest Purveyor Of Violence On Earth Over The Past Half Century, And The Foremost Threat To World Peace Today.