Dear Diary: Rumor has it that my impeccable progressive credentials have led some Democrats to concludet that I should to enter the 2016 race for the White House. Of course my native American roots do give me a special advantage. "White men speak with forked tongue," the wise elders nod in agreement, as they gather in their tepee to hold a pow-wow in their tepee, smoking the pipe of peace, their silence punctuated by an occasional brief hiss, as a gobbet of tobacco-laced sputum is expertly squirted into the heart of the blazing campfire.