the goalposts.

They are crucial to moving the window, and I really am getting sick and tired of all the negative attacks on them. Please stop it.

I like every single one of these candidates: they all have their strengths. Some are spending a lot of time framing themselves [cough cough .. ahem, Hillary, Barack] rather than stating responses.

You can sense the jockeying for position.

Kucinich and Gravel speak truth to power: yes - "unpolished, unhinged and unelectable".

But do not deny the fact that they speak truth to power.