A short diary in the midst of catastrophe, but I just wanted to post something that would be a natural net positive: we are at a threshhold of American history where we need someone who could embody Lincoln’s Second Innaugural Adress’s spirit of ”binding the nation’s wounds.” I realize Michelle Obama would be giving up a tremendous amount of freedom and relative happiness to enter such a bleak and dismal political and economic environment, but she could rally the world at a time when it is needed more than perhaps any other. These may be the only qualifiers for a leader right now: empathy, competence and integrity.