By Trying To Do Too Much, You

Don't Fall In Love With Politicians, They're All A Disappointment. They Can't Help It, They Just Are.

The Biggest Political Change In My Lifetime Is That Americans No Longer Assume That Their Children Will Have It Better Than They Did. This Is A Huge Break With The Past, With Assumptions And Traditions That Shaped Us.

What We Need Most Right Now, At This Moment, Is A Kind Of Patriotic Grace - A Grace That Takes The Long View, Apprehends The Moment We're In, Comes Up With Ways Of Dealing With It, And Eschews The Politically Cheap And Manipulative. That Admits Affection And Respect. That Encourages Them. That Acknowledges That The Small Things That Divide Us Are Not Worthy Of The Moment; That Agrees That The Things That Can Be Done To Ease The Stresses We Feel As A Nation Should Be Encouraged, While Those That Encourage Our Cohesion As A Nation Should Be Supported.

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.

Beware The Politically Obsessed. They Are Often Bright And Interesting, But They Have Something Missing In Their Natures; There Is A Hole, An Empty Place, And They Use Politics To Fill It Up. It Leaves Them Somehow Misshapen.