It's a fact of life that positive reasons don't always get people to vote. You need some negative reasons.

Being a little older is not going to win election. Being a little younger might, especially if the older candidates, Hillary Clinton included, can`t make the case that they have learned something that the younger crowd doesn`t know.

Jeb Bush has being slammed by his own party for a very messy response to questions about his brother's war in Iraq. He should have been ready for this one.

B.B. King will be remembered for his impressive skills on the guitar, that King defined the blue genre.

Be tough, hold a tough line, but don`t be running off into another war, especially since even if you support our troops and you want to have a robust foreign policy, you recognize that we have - we have been overdeploying our men and women, and we have been spilling our blood and treasure, and we need to be more careful.

We've always had a dual role in the region - friend of Israel, and honest broker. We've given up the honest broker role completely.

I don't sense an [Barack] Obama party. I think politics is transactional for him.