Chapter 25

::Why did you leave? You could have effected more change as the leader of the most powerful nation state on the planet,:: Tarin asked.

::In the United States, change is not easy. You have to deal with a fractious Senate, a grid-locked house whose parties can’t agree among themselves much less with each other. You go into office with hope but you don’t get done much, or sometimes any, of what needs to be done. You need to be a real prick to move things along at anything other than a glacial pace.:: Sam sighed.

::I don’t understand. If that is the case, why did you want the job at all?::

::Because I had enough of an ego that I thought I could move things along in the direction I believed they should be going. Things changed. The plague hit and the Sarrans came. Sara needed me. Anyway, Morgan is truly better suited to uniting the Earth than I would have been and he has the advantage of not having to answer to the electorate or his own conscience.:: Then he spoke aloud.