Two Types of Summits
Starting tomorrow, Trail Mix will be hitting the ski trails for the next week or so — so the blogging output here may be temporarily reduced. I won’t disappear completely, though. Assuming I can find wireless internet in the vicinity of my single favorite mountain (or, should I say, my favorite single mountain?), I’ll weigh in on Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary and anything else that comes up over the course of the week. (Word on the street is that it could be a newsy week.)
For the moment, I’ve been trying to take a night off from politics to focus on the slightly less carnal sport of football. But during halftime of LSU’s inevitable victory, I made the mistake of switching to C-SPAN, which right now is showing a replay of the bipartisan summit from Oklahoma City earlier today. The summit, headlined by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, was a gathering of independents, moderate Democrats and moderate Republicans, brought together to discuss how partisanship has stifled the big, creative ideas America needs. Listening to these guys talk is fascinating and — for anyone craving a more rational, temperate political discourse — even a little bit hopeful. Quite a contrast with the overtly partisan primaries. As for Bloomberg himself: notice how he keeps insisting “I am not a candidate” for president — in the present tense — but leaves the future tense unsaid.
