The larger challenge facing the president is that we are still metaphorically in the first term.
Imagine, while arguing Brown v. Board of Education, Thurgood Marshall was on retainer with the White Citizens Council.
Just as Senate Democrats forced their Republican counterparts to move to "phase two," Democrats need to follow up with their own second act.
This week the president was campaigning -- not for reelection, but for something more formidable than the challenges presented by Al Gore or John Kerry: his credibility.
Few issues divide the country down the fault line of absolutes like the death penalty. Even opposition to abortion carries varying degrees of suppor...
