The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn’t worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed.
There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A small twist of fate can save or end a life; random chance is a permanent, powerful player in each of our lives, and in human history as well.
More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy.
Somebody is going to have to do fancy footwork to make sure Elizabeth and John Edwards get their prime-time shot .