Don't think of the elephant in the room...

[quaker bill]

3. Time to reclaim the turf

Competence in office as President, regardless of how expressed is political, because it is a political office. If Bush had done a great job marshalling the forces and protecting the people from Hurricane Katrina, it would have been politically useful, and he would have used it.

He didn't do this job and his poll numbers sunk through the floor. It was a human tragedy, and I would like to say without precedent, but Republicans did this to New Orleans in 1927 as well. That said, it was also political, just really really bad politics.

It is a political job and every aspect of it is politics. Kings are exempt from politics, but we elect our leaders. It is actually a good thing that we fought hard for the right to do.