Politics Takes Patience, Time, Listening

I Share The Administration's Goals In Dealing With Iraq And Its Weapons Of Mass Destruction.

I Grew Up In The '50s And '60s When Jack Kennedy Was President. We Would Watch Him On Television. And Our Teachers Always Talked About The Good Things Public Servants Could Do. I Thought Maybe That's Something I Should Do. So When I Got Out Of Law School, My Wife, Jane, And I Became Precinct Captains.

Why Would We Want To Keep A Tax Cut That's Failed? Why Would We Not Want To Go Back To The Clinton Tax Code? And Why Would We Not Want To Help Every Family More With A Health-care Plan Like Mine? Let's Help Average People. Let's Be Democrats.

I Was Raised In A Working Class Family Of Baptist Faith, And I Went To College On A Church Scholarship Where Early Teachings Were Reinforced. Abortion Was Wrong, I Was Taught.

One Of The Most Important Virtues Of The American Character Is Our Ability To Approach The Complexities That Life Presents Us With Common Sense And Decency, .. The Considered Judgment Of The American People Is Not Going To Rise Or Fall On The Fine Distinctions Of A Legal Argument But On Straight Talk And The Truth. It Is Time For The President And The Congress To Follow That Common Sense For The Good Of The Country.