He would make a great neighbor, and a great chess partner, but more and more 1 term getting us out of the mess may be best for the Progressive Movement.
Watch Chapter 3
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/choice2008/view/
"Renaissance Thinking About the Issues of Our Day"
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I will have to watch the documentary, but I get the impression that he is running things like a guy that doesn't want to get his head blown off.
It is not as if it is unprecedented.