Joan She will never forget that she has opinions, but I doubt that he will win if she keeps expressing strong opinions. That is just the way the country is made up. We all know it. Maybe they talk about change, but many people in our country like it the way it is.

Good advise.

Be true to yourself, but stay focused on the goal. Your loftiest public aspirations, your words - no matter how brilliant, your passion and energy, will never be recognized as clearly as when coming from you in the White House. And love that man with all you’ve got.

Use Mrs. Roosevelt as your model. She was a shrewd politician and she knew how to work-around; there were plenty of folks who made fun of her, etc., but she managed to get the Universal Declaration of Human Rights through the United Nations. Have a few close, trusted friends who give reasonable advice, and try to ignore the fools.

Joan is right, I feel the same way about Michelle Obama. She is a strong, smart woman with solid opinons, but putting her thoughts in the forefront could lose us what I see as, a potentially great president. Not fair, decent or good, but that’s the way our country is right now. It’s good to acknowledge reality so you can work with it.. Incidentally, CNN is doing a Special on “Black In America” sometime in July. It may be a wakeup to many Americans who have no idea the life many blacks live. A friend of mine’s daughter married a black man from Kenya. My friend lives in Ross, one of the wealthiest communities in America. It’s small Marin community of about 5500 people, lovely little place, but most of Marin is pretty smashing in general. ( Im sitting here looking out my nice new clean office windows to see trees aplenty, swaying gently in a cool summer day and a mother deer and her babe nibbling in our yard. Fortunately we don’t have flowers there so I can afford to be sanguine.) Anyway, my friend’s daughter, husband and their 2 boys visit often, sometimes stay for short periods of time. On several occasions, in this very small town, he was stopped by the Ross police asking what he was doing there. The man is a Professor of Archeology and studied with a renowned archeologist in Africa whose name alludes me just now. I ‘m white.