When I made a decision the practice of law via the "difficult-hard" construct I have explained, I didn't look back. I had thought it through to my satisfaction, I trusted myself and my process, and I had to start the trial on a fixed date. I had to decide and I decided. In as dynamic an exercise as a jury trial, I still had to be nimble, to adjust to changing circumstance; rarely, but sometimes, to change course dramatically during the trial. But I had to have a course. I decided that course and didn't second guess.
As in a jury trial as one of two principal actors, so in an election as one of 150,000,000 actors. I have given the thought that I deem sufficient to my decision, considered at length and in depth alternative courses, and have decided. It will be the right decision or it will be the wrong decision, as it was in jury trials. I control the things that I can and see by available light. I am becalmed to not be riding the waves, the daily crests and troughs.
I will not be updating the polls or the daily leaks of the president's words to others. This is my declaration of independence from that news. When the president tells us of his decision I will note it here. He is my president until he is not. He will get my vote so long as he is a choice. Any other Democrat will get my vote in the alternative.
