why are you doing that? this coming from a man who runs a multibillion-dollar business and almost runs for senate and runs magazines. i don t think i m going to accept the challenge. that s very unfair to throw the question back to me, david. you did a brilliant job on this book is all i can say while putting out a wonderful magazine. talk about this president getting elected in illinois, senator in illinois. nobody gets to the top in these situations without some luck. right. and setting aside his skills, which are significant, setting aside his capacities and intelligence and character and the rest and his faults, his luck is also significant. three sex scandals helped him to run for state senate, there was no opening for him in the political world of chicago. mill reynolds steps down from congress. his state senator therefore runs. she loses. he s got the opening. he wins. when he runs for senate in 2004, his main and richest democratic opponent, divorce records come ope