I associate my childhood with two things, mainly: the North Devon countryside and a sense of connection to another world.
If we were real domestic terrorists, shoot, President Obama would be wanting to pal around with us, wouldn't he?
It's very noble of President Obama to want to stay at the helm and maybe go down with this sinking ship.
We have a President, perhaps for the very first time since the founding of our republic, who doesn't appear to believe that America is the greatest earthly force for good the world has ever known.
There were times (during my early campaigns) when I thought, "You know what I could really use? A wife. "
I used to wonder if the occasionally rough edges of politics were unique here under the Great North Star. But I ventured out a bit this past year, and I tell you that, as partisan quarrels go, ours really aren't so bad.
They think that, if we were just smart enough, we'd be able to understand their policies. And I so want to tell 'em, and I do tell 'em, Oh, we're plenty smart, oh yeah - we know what's goin' on. And we don't like what's goin' on. And we're not gonna let them tell us to sit down and shut up.
As always, most media aligns with the presumptive winner even though their claimed societal virtue is to investigate those in power.
For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.
I'm a better talker than writer.
Unless people can express themselves well in ordinary English, they don't know what they are talking about.