It was, after all, the year that President Barack Obama became the first sitting US president to visit a federal prison and meet with prisoners serving time for drug offenses, a moment that would come to symbolize the recognition that drug crime policies had locked up more Americans than, perhaps, they meant to.
Now that it is widely accepted that there are simply not enough US soldiers on the ground in Iraq to effectively fight the insurgency, the Bush administration is apparently considering a plan that would include what an article on the op-ed page of yesterday's New York Times calls "a surge of perhaps 25,000 more American troops to Iraq".
Mr Obama would doubtless withdraw more American troops more quickly, but perhaps not much more quickly.A more fertile area of attack for the Democrats might well be Mr McCain's general bellicosity.
There's perhaps nothing more American than the road trip.
Australia is one of the United States' most important intelligence partners, receiving more American intelligence than any country except perhaps Britain, American and Australian intelligence officials say.
Analysts say that the bidders for VSNL are likely to include several Indian industrial conglomerates and perhaps one or more American phone companies.
When more Muslims have hope, perhaps more Americans will be safe, too.
If more Americans shared our experience, perhaps the Republicans would not have succeeded in crushing these kids' hopes as they filibustered the DREAM Act to death a few days ago.
If a particularly strong hurricane hits, climatologists will once again explain that rising sea levels increase the likelihood of more, and more severe, storms, and perhaps even more Americans will begin believing in climate change.
Trump perhaps realizes that Perry could lower education standards in the United States like he did in Texas, low enough perhaps that more Americans will think Trump makes sense.
