Go vote now, it will make you feel big and strong.

Talk about threats to national security -- how about government so big, so complicated and so unmanageable, it cant get out of its own way?

I think journalism is a great way to do public service, to have an impact on your community.

And as a result, I guess I'm just kind of a rubberneck. I'm kind of a - someone who likes to see things and likes to see these events and talk to the people who make them happen. But I don't think journalists are as important as the people they cover.

The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.

I can't think of any other job in journalism where the newsmakers come to you.

I used to be a print reporter.