Speeches Are Not Magic And

My Generation, Faced As It Grew With A Choice Between Religious Belief And Existential Despair, Chose Marijuana. Now We Are In Our Cabernet Stage.

In The 1950s And '60s The [democrat] Party Included Many Obviously Earnest And Thoughtful Liberals Who Supported Goals That Were In Line With And Expressions Of Serious Beliefs. They Believed That America Was An Exceptional Country.

A Great Speech Is Literature.

What Is In The Air There In Washington, What Is In The Water? What Is Wrong With Them? This Is Not A Rhetorical Question. I Think It Is Unspoken Question No.1 As Americans Look At So Many Of The Individuals In Our Government. What Is Wrong With Them?

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.