King Or Candidate?

"If you're to run as something fundamentally different--the philosopher king--you have to have a campaign that is completely different," said Mr. Lehane, who has not endorsed a candidate. "Long term, there is peril here for Obama: if he is presenting a message that he represents a new style of governance, once you start to engage in the back and forth, you really diminish this kind of message."

I'm trying to run a different kind of campaign. I'm calling on us to renew our faith in each other as neighbors. I'm listening to America, not to the pundits. I'm raising money from ordinary citizens, not from special interest PAC's. And I'm hoping that by election day, we'll be choosing between two people we esteem, not the candidate we can still tolerate.