Aftermath

Tuesday night

David Letterman really believed in a member of his show's staff, and encouraged him to run for public office. In fact, he was so impressed by the young man that he volunteered to be his campaign manager, and worked like a dog to get him elected. Unfortunately, on election day, things didn't go as planned, and Dave's candidate lost. Dave and his friend sat together on a couch, both in shirt sleeves, slacks and loosened ties. Both were in a daze. They passed a bottle of wine between them and wondered what went wrong.

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I'm reading Barack Obama's book "The Audacity of Hope," and recently finished a chapter titled "Politics," in which he describes an unsuccessful race for the U.S. House of Representatives in which everything that could go wrong did.