I wish that Ted Koppel would run for president.  Sometimes he seems to make more sense than all of the politicians put together.  You know him as the popular moderator of ABC’s “Nightline” program.  In a speech at Duke University a year ago he said this: “We have actually convinced ourselves that slogans will save us.  Shoot up if you must, but use a clean needle.  Enjoy sex whenever and with whomever you wish, but wear a condom.  No!  The answer is no.  Not because it isn’t cool or smart or because you might end up in jail or dying in an AIDS ward, but because it’s wrong, because we have spent 5,000 years as a race of rational human beings, trying to drag ourselves out of the primeval slime by searching for truth and moral absolutes.  In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the s…