Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the major achievement of President Obama's first term.
We've had erratic, weird presidents before. America's still here.
Whether it is Obamacare, the stimulus, Wall Street bailouts, the food safety bill - on vote after vote, Bill Nelson has chosen to side with Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and President Obama over the people of Florida.
Obama is the new kid with the weird name who people just sense is a little classier than his surroundings. He moved from a private school where he was class president and is now at the giant public high school with the metal detectors and the smoking lounge.
I love Obama. He's my favorite president of all time.
Who knows - I would like to think that I'd be a fantastic president, and I'd be extremely levelheaded, and I'd be very fair, and I wouldn't persecute people, and I'd listen to the people that disagreed with me and all the rest of it, but who knows.
In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
