Calling on a full-access God
Perhaps more than most cities in the world, Washington, D.C., is a city whose central principle, the operating rule, the basic means of existence, is access. Access to information. Access to influence. Access to certain buildings. And of course, access to power and to powerful people. Of all of those, one particular piece of access outshines all the others: access to the Oval Office. That's the zenith, the pinnacle, of having made it in Washington. Never mind that that access is relatively short-lived -- the longest it generally lasts is eight years -- that's the one everybody wants.
