When I Was Young, Communism, Which Had

Teaching Has Always Been, For Me, Linked To Issues Of Social Justice. I've Never Considered It A Neutral Or Passive Profession.

I More Or Less Shared The View That Life Should Be Lived.

The Right Said, [barack Obama] Is Lying, He's A Socialist Who Pals Around With Terrorists, He's A Secret Muslim And Blah Blah Blah. That Was Their Line. The Liberals All Said, He's Winking At Me, I Can Feel Him Winking In My Direction. He Wasn't Winking. He Said Exactly Who He Was And He's Lived That Out Perfectly.

We're Actually Saying, Here's A Principle That I'd Like To Arc Toward. That's A Very Different Role In Life. I Didn't Expect [barack] Obama To Go To The Root Of Things. I Didn't Expect Him To Have A Principled Position On Anything. I Mean, Just Pay Some Moderate Attention To The Guy.

Every Relationship Is An Experiment And What One Learns From It Is So Fascinating.