The Presidents political travel is going to get blamed (and probably rightly) for a share of this downturn. – Robert Teeter
Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each other. – Robert Teeter
Whatever he does should be seen as working at the Presidency and if he goes to Colorado for Christmas, it should be for a minimum amount of time, the family tradition and family get-together aspect emphasized, and it be seen as a working vacation. – Robert Teeter
Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics. – Robert Teeter
Air travel survived decades of terrorism, including attacks which resulted in the deaths of everyone on the plane. It survived 9/11. Itll survive the next successful attack. The only real worry is that well scare ourselves into making air travel so onerous that we wont fly anymore. – Bruce Schneier
We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. – Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man