My brother is one of my true heroes. Steady and sober where I am impulsive and emotional.

I don't really care how or why Obama got to the right place on gay marriage. I'm just glad he got there.

Go Hard or Go Home, but never go home hard!

There's no question that many factors contribute to voters' perceptions about debates and who wins and who loses.

Outside events can change a presidential campaign, a president, and the history of the nation: the Iranian hostage crisis, the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, the downing of the helicopter in Mogadishu, Somalia, the suicide attack on the USS Cole, and, of course, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Negativity drove me out of politics in the mid-Nineties.

A messy participatory process is representative democracy at its best.