I so wish Russ Feingold could be the President. He’d be amazing, like Michael Douglas in An American President — who was, in the movie, from Madison, Wisconsin. The movie came out 3 years into Senator Feingold’s first term in the US Senate. Coincidence?

Unfortunately, that character ran into trouble dating while in the White House, and I have no doubt that Senator Feingold would actually have even less privacy, were he to date and run for office at the same time.

So I am sad to learn that Senator Feingold and his wife Mary are separating. They say it is amicable, and I’m sure that’s true, but it still has to be a hard thing to do. And the emotional challenges of any divorce are made all the more difficult by the fact that they live in a fishbowl, and almost anyone hearing about it will think about the political implications for his career, not just the sadness for their family.

Good luck, Senator. I wish there was something I could do to help.