If he was out there hugging kids and feeling people's pain, he'd become a huge and important symbol,

Donovan McNabb is kind of the symbol for guys who play with pain, but it's hard to distinguish where the line is,

But the party doesn't want that - it would undermine the current leadership, and he'd be accused of boosting Hillary to the detriment of some other possible frontrunners in 2008.

We were hugging each other like we always do.

Hugging is not my shtick.

Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.