It remains a fact, although few would recognize it as such, that I would be a very good President. Since I am not going to be able to make it through the minefield of modern politics to actually mount a campaign (something not worth doing in a certain way, since the first requirement seems to be to give up your soul to the demon of ambition), I am going to use this weblog format to offer my thoughts about various problems, as if I was the President - sort of a what I would do if I sat in the Oval Office. Readers can, of course, think whatever they want about the vanity of my doing this, but the proof is in the pudding as they say - read what I write, and not just the single instances, but large parts of it, and then judge whether I make more sense than what is coming out of the mouths of various politicians.
My hope, by the way, is not so much to put myself forward as some kind of know-it-all, but show that there are alternatives to what is being offered, even by the liberal and progressive Democrats that seem to some to be so attractive. Statecraft is something quite different from politics, which anyone can see who reads carefully my campaign website. In this weblog then I will continue to offer my thoughts about these matters, as it is my gift to be able to do this. Maybe some future day, some historian will wander into these words and, from the vantage point of looking back, recognize that even in these times of troubles there was a voice of sanity.
written October 28th, 2003.
