While we're talking about confidence, and who can win, and facing the opposite direction, we have just been told that we're facing at least another two years in Afghanistan - a continuing stay in Iraq, and the drums are beating for a confrontation with Russia - supposedly over Syria.

I'm not saying that there is anything wrong with the self-coronation - or the victory lap - or whatever you want to call it. In fact, I'm just saying that that is what it is. Theatre. Appearing to be the victor. That image has legs and possibly draws money. It's politics.

I'm just tired - and frankly somewhat frightened, that these life and death issues are not in the forefront.

Just asking - but did any one of the candidates have a comment about President Obama telling us that his illusory date for leaving Afghanistan was in fact an illusion?

I am somewhat focused, I will grant you, on HRC - because every media outlet is putting her out there as the winner of something. Something called a "debate" - in which as I recall absolutely nothing was debated.

And so I thought when you said,

"I hope we can bear in mind that we're all more or less on the same side of most issues.  I hope we remember this when the herders do their discomforting best to turn this forum into the same sort of sycophancy-fest that they did during the '08 campaign."

That being said, I mean come on, you are a politician, would be it be too much to ask that you know a line or two of Spanish really well if you are trying to get millions of their hispanic votes.