A wry commentator on office life, he may be, but he should probably reserve his opinions on politics. His assessment of the Presidency:
You’d think that Adams had been living under a rock these past six years. There are several million people in Iraq who I’m sure would be happy to tell him how big a difference George W Bush has made in their lives.
… to say nothing of the families of the WTC victims and the families of the 3,000+ serviceman and women filled in Iraq and the tens of thousands wounded.
<update: added the link to the original Adams piece> I think there have been some holders of that office who made a difference (the two Roosevelts come to mind, Lincoln as well). So the idea that the executive branch is a poor choice for a dynamic leader to aspire to is bunk, especially when you consider how much power the incumbent has amassed. Imagine a leader who could cut defense spending to something less that what the rest of the world spends combined, and plow the rest into stuff that doesn’t kill people: I expect there is more to be gained from that than the Gates Foundation can dream of.