It's not appeasement to talk to your enemies.

Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never.

You talk to your enemies, not just your friends.

Machines are neither Republicans nor Democrats and therefore can never be consciously or even unconsciously biased.

I understand personally, ... that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.

It's not appeasement to talk to your enemies.

You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president