But politics seemed out of place just at the moment.
"Pop music and politics all seemed to be about the same movement," he said.
Now the politics of the war seem to be working in his favor among Democratic primary voters.
The actual politics of the election didn't seem to interest them all that much.
So politics just seem to be on my mind right now.
Maybe it's a natural development, since American politics seems to have become theology as well.
These days, politics seems to be beside the point of art's role in American society.
Irish politics seems to have been especially on his mind in this period.
The problem is that politics does not seem to have made much progress.
And suddenly, national politics does not seem to be so distant an exercise.