The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
Looking back, some of the happiest moments of my childhood were spent with my arm in packets of breakfast cereal, rootling around for a free gift.
When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.
It was natural to see the struggle for dignity for black people in America as a sister struggle of the Jewish struggle. So growing up, it was always a part of my breakfast cereal to think of myself as someone who was part of a larger struggle.
Although the TV commercials will try and have you believe otherwise, there is nothing good about breakfast cereal. No matter how 'low fat' or 'high in fibre' the box tells you it is, ditching the high sugar cereals is the first step you need to take towards a better breakfast.
Everywhere I travel around my home state of Wyoming - but also around the country - I continue to hear, 'How can Washington make us buy something we don't want to buy, a product? They can't tell us to buy breakfast cereal or something else - how can they do that?'
You certainly don't want to market the president as if he or she were a box of breakfast cereal.
Right now, I'm very healthy. I have no vices left. Except sugary breakfast cereal. And absinthe, of course.
Sometimes you actually get caught in the web of things where people are talking about... what kind of breakfast cereal you like.
Really the topic of breakfast cereal is generally a very boring one.
