It's easy to get wrapped up in the small stuff. Primary season is heated, and we're all entranced to some degree by polls, the horse race, the snubs and the flubs. Trivia and the politics of perception. I'm there too.
But when it comes to finally choosing among the alternatives, we need to think of something greater than the shadowboxing and the spin room. We need to think of the others who lack the fortune of our leisure.
When I vote, I think about the great tragedies and misfortunes of the past two decades...our generational moments where millions of lives hung in the balance, and were lost to criminal neglect and the failure of political will to rescue them. To save their lives, and thus testify to our character.
I think of Iraq. I think of Rwanda. I think of Sudan. I think of lost opportunities in Cuba. And I think of Kenya...and what may or may not become the next great horror there.
And when I think of political will and personal judgment...and who among our presidential aspirants has the greater supply to address or avert the greatest tragedies of our era, the choice couldn't be clearer.