George H.W. Bush: “You promote public safety by turning it into a community affair.”

More than 220 years later, Washington's warning feels strikingly relevant.

I think you are engaging in the soft bigotry of low expectations.

This means that people of every race, religion, ethnicity can be fully and equally American. It means that bigotry or white supremacy in any form is blasphemy against the American creed.

But he hasn't heard my latest proposal. The bottom 99 percent will do well when they get to split Dick Cheney's stock options.