I’m not interested in the suburbs. The suburbs bore me. — 1990

My Take – The president represents us all, not just his core constituency.  He is supposed to keep the needs of the nation as a whole in mind as he governs, not just the parts of the country he likes.  At least, that’s the ideal.

I’m not naive enough to think that partisan hacks become philosopher kings the moment they take the oath of office.  I know that every president favors some parts of the country over others to some extent.  But when a president spends valuable time and energy whipping up one part of the population against another, the bonds of our country become strained.  We are not rich Americans or poor Americans.  We are not rural Americans or urban Americans.  We are just Americans, and the President needs to remember that he serves us all, not just the parts that voted for him or donated to his war chest.