If [bush's] Successors Don't Screw It Up,

I'm Not A Global Warming Believer. I'm Not A Global Warming Denier. I'm A Global Warming Agnostic Who Believes Instinctively That It Can't Be Very Good To Pump Lots Of Co2 Into The Atmosphere But Is Equally Convinced That Those Who Presume To Know Exactly Where That Leads Are Talking Through Their Hats.

Every Two Years The American Politics Industry Fills The Airwaves With The Most Virulent, Scurrilous, Wall-to-wall Character Assassination Of Nearly Every Political Practitioner In The Country - And Then Declares Itself Puzzled That America Has Lost Trust In Its Politicians.

Preemption Is A Kind Of Pre-deterrence That Stops The Threat At An Earlier, Safer Stage.

What Made Obama Unique Was That He Was The Ultimate Charismatic Politician - The Most Unknown Stranger Ever To Achieve The Presidency In The United States. No One Knew Who He Was, He Came Out Of Nowhere, He Had This Incredible Persona That Floated Him Above The Fray, Destroyed Hillary, Took Over The Democratic Party And Became President. This Is Truly Unprecedented: A Young Unknown With No History, No Paper Trail, No Well-known Associates, Self-created.

I Think The First Thing Is To Recognize A Mistake That Obama Made. And Others Have Made In Thinking That You Can Revolutionize A System That's Unbelievably Complex And Interlinked, One-sixth Of The Economy. That Was A Mistake Because Whenever You Change One Thing, It Changes 80 Other Things, And Now If You're Changing Everything At Once, You Have No Idea What The Outcome Is Going To Be And You Get All Of These Unintended Side Effects.