How do you know there’s not a door to heaven in the sky between Malaysia and Vietnam?

The only future Barack Obama is trying to win is his own re-election.

One thing that Americans do at this time also, though, is let's commit ourselves, just everyday American people Joe Six-Pack, hockey moms across the nation I think we need to band together and say, never again. Never will we exploited and taken advantage of again by those who are managing our money and loaning us these dollars.

We tend to prefer candidates that don't talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco.

Bored, anonymous, pathetic bloggers who lie annoy me.

I used to wonder if the occasionally rough edges of politics were unique here under the Great North Star. But I ventured out a bit this past year, and I tell you that, as partisan quarrels go, ours really aren't so bad.

Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.