When you run for president of the United States, everybody does the same thing in the campaign-they talk about veterans, how much they admire them, how grateful they are.
Mark ShieldsThe Democratic Party is a coalition. Its strength and its weakness is, it's a coalition of interest groups, caucuses. It's a lot less homogeneous than the Republican Party, where people tend to believe the same things and oftentimes look alike.
Mark ShieldsLet's give the president some due here. They had a mess, and he fixed it, and they mobilized a lot of authority, and they did it.
Mark Shields