I was sitting in a small auditorium waiting for Barack Obama to speak. He was on the other side of the aisle --- on a light diagonal --- from me without the company of a Secret Service detail, just next to a rather old civilian gentleman. He and I were talking about what he was going to say, and I urged him to address gun control. Then I spent a long time trying to suggest a word for him to use in place of control, regulation, restriction, collaboration, limitation --- something friendlier which might pass muster with the NRA. I came up with cooperation. Gun cooperation. Not likely, I suspect. Too chummy. Too soft. Poor Barack, I decided, he just can't win. I did find that he looked exactly like his photographs and was very soft spoken and pleasant. It was a lovely experience.
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