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What did you think about the transition from George W. Bush to Barack Obama? They're totally different people, with different attitudes toward the press. Well, not totally different. No President likes the press. They all hate...
...experienced this too, right? During George W. Bush's Administration, you were caught off-record calling him the worst President in the nation's history. After that comment was published, it went around the world about 50 times. The White House press secretary called me wanting to know if I really had said that. And I had to admit that I had, to a reporter while I was signing my book, though I didn't know it was a reporter. But I didn't apologize because it's what I felt at the time. Anyway, it's a free press...
...Nobel Peace Prize, presented prospectively - a triumph of hope over inexperience - threatens to become a central metaphor of Barack Obama's turbocharged political career. He seems fated to be feted for who he is not (George W. Bush) and who he might turn out to be, but not for things he has actually done. This is dangerous stuff, politically. It almost guarantees disappointment. So the prize presents him with an immediate challenge: How does he go about actually earning it? The foreign policy that Obama favors, patient diplomacy on a multitude of fronts, requires qualities of wisdom, horse-trading...
...slaughter of all Israelite male babies, Moses is floated down the Nile, picked up by the pharaoh's daughter and raised in the palace. An adult Moses murders an Egyptian for beating "one of his kinsmen," then flees to the desert, where, later, a voice in a burning bush recruits him to free the Israelites. This moment represents Moses' first leadership test: Will he cling to his unburdened life or attempt to free a people enslaved for centuries...
Meanwhile, mid-career gay activists who run the day-to-day gay movement from the East Coast - men and women in their late 30s to early 50s who slogged away at gay causes during the Bush interregnum - were rather dumbstruck at the idea that young gays wanted to march on Washington. "Pointless," one seasoned gay activist told me. "If Cleve and David Mixner have really inspired so many kids to work on our behalf - finally, by the way, because I think these kids spent the early part of this decade playing Nintendo or something - why don't they tell them...