It's a deft trick to turn American exceptionalism into an exceptional political tactic.

At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama's fitness than his willingness: Why doesn't he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization?

According to a Public Policy Polling survey, most Americans find lice and colonoscopies more appealing than Capitol Hill.

With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.

Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America.

Although we were never pals and occasionally butted heads, my relationship with Clinton and his wife, Hillary, made me a better journalist.

President George W. Bush won reelection in 2004 largely because he was seen as comfortable in his own skin, while rival John Kerry was viewed as a flip-flopping opportunist.

Obama might do well to remember that his fast rise from the Illinois state Senate was due in large part to an uncanny ability to make friends and find mentors.

I'm hearing echoes of Bill Clinton, circa 1996, in President Obama's reelection rhetoric.

For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put forward a tepid agenda.

If acknowledging that racial misgivings and misunderstandings are still a part of politics and life in America, I plead guilty.

She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today.Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction.See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.

But I've bought a big bat.I'm all ready, you see.Now my troubles are goingTo have troubles with me!

Truth in art is truth n circumstances.

The Internet has not become the great leveller that it was once thought it could be.

Scobe's Tenth Law: In all endeavors, in all aspects of life, there are more horses asses than horses!

It's good to get out of the closet and talk about it and find out other people's views.

In the second part of life you get rid of stuff you've accumulated.

I don't worry about money because I no longer have the fear mentality that I won't be provided for.

Even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.