I may have been the only candidate in America who failed to ride the wave of anti-establishment anger to victory.

Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength.

My father was not a political animal.

People have to eat and it's good to have a last-resort dole they can turn to.

My father was an immigrant from Austria and he became a lawyer and became a judge and I think he was a good judge.

I don't have any particular beef with Barbara Boxer. My beef is with the official Democratic doctrine that anybody who reaches Boxer's position has to spout and has to endorse.

Do Obama and Boxer realize they are on the wrong side of a tsunami of voter discontent with a government run by and for the public employee unions?