The Battle For The Mind Of Ronald

No News Conferences? Interviews Now Only With Friendly Journalists? You Can't Be President Or Vice President And Govern In That Style, As A Sequestered Figure. This Has Been Mr. Bush's Style The Past Few Years, And See Where It Got Us. You Must Address America In Its Entirety, Not As A Sliver Or A Series Of Slivers But As A Full And Whole Entity, A Great Nation Trying To Hold Together. When You Don't, When You Play Only To Your Little Piece, You Contribute To Its Fracturing.

Mr. Bush Has Squandered The Hard-built Paternity Of 40 Years. But So Has The Party, And So Have Its Leaders. If They Had Pushed Away For Serious Reasons, They Could Have Separated The Party's Fortunes From The President's. This Would Have Left A Painfully Broken Party, But They Wouldn't Be Left With A Ruined Brand,- As They All Say, Speaking The Language Of Marketing. And They Speak That Language Because They Are Marketers, Not Thinkers. Not Serious About Policy. Not Serious About Ideas. And Not Serious About Leadership, Only Followership.

When Everyone In America Knows You're In A Dreadful Position, Admit You're In A Dreadful Position. Don't Lie About It And Make Them Roll Their Eyes, Tell The Truth And Make Them Blink.

I Should Say Here, Because Some In Washington Like To Dream Up Ways To Control The Internet, That We Don't Need To 'control' Free Speech, We Need To Control Ourselves.

I Love Eulogies. They Are The Most Moving Kind Of Speech Because They Attempt To Pluck Meaning From The Fog, And On Short Order, When The Emotions Are Still Ragged And Raw And Susceptible To Leaps.