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Presidential Campaigns

By Stuart Buck

This quotation from an Andrew Ferguson piece is long, but it's the best thing I've read about the presidential campaign: It's not pleasant to think of the life they lead, these Americans who would be president, from the first hints of dawn to well past midnight, this life of endless demands, this succession of superficial sociability, in which you smile and smile and pop your eyes wide open in delighted wonder at the ever-shifting kaleidoscope of faces and places that circles before you, and you haven't the time or leisure to settle on a single one. Charming countryside, pretty little towns, sprawling centers of commerce and industry fly by and you haven't a moment to enjoy them or learn their tales. You rush to meet hundreds of people a day and never have a meaningful exchange of words with any of them...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Buck Stops Here on February 01, 2008 (boomark / email).