At any level of politics, whether on campus, locally or nationally--the words our elected officials and candidates choose to use and the ways they choose to use them can reveal their natures, including the raw instinct for survival or their commitment to honest discourse. Elections are often about the energy displayed by the candidates, a sense of experience with decisions made under pressure and a perceived quality of inherent honesty. The vice president, whom I have often admired, knows this very well. It is not too late for him to embellish less, qualify less and declare more.
Susannah B. Tobin '00 is a classics concentrator in Lowell House. Her column appears on alternate Thursdays.
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