Let’s Be Clear: Why I never want to hear “Let’s be clear” in a speech again.

People. And by people, I mean Democratic Presidential candidates: you need better speechwriters. (I am for sale to the highest bidder unless you are a Republican in which case you just keep on keeping on, you write the best speeches ever, unbelievable, works of staggering, stable genius speeches.)

I realize I am the world’s worst self-promotor, because here I am giving out free advice, but money isn’t everything and I need a Democrat to win the Presidency. Writing about politics is tedious. I’d like to get back to my nutty family, thank you very much.

I was an actress once upon a time and even directed a couple of plays. Both won awards in their respective festivals. I think this is because I applied what I learned in acting to directing. Here’s a piece of advice from the acting world:

1) Don’t repeat an action. (Or a phrase.)

Say you’re an actor working on character development. You see someone who reminds you of a character in real life. This person has a tic. He taps on his cigarette box three times, each time he takes a cigarette.

If you are on stage, you may do that one time.

But but but, you say. First of all, don’t argue with the director. Secondly, it’s just one of those things. The second time you do it, the audience member…