Editorial Comment

Voters should completely ignore the TV commentary about the Democratic debate in South Carolina last night. As a general rule, they should ignore 90 percent of what those airheads say, but particularly in this case. Watch the entire debate yourself if you want to see democracy in action at its best. It was a hard hitting back and forth among three strong candidates that ended in something of a love fest of mutual admiration, and it must have left many Democrats wishing they didn't have to choose just one.
Jim Therrien

Posted by Jim Therrien at 11:25 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

The idea that Hillary Clinton's comment that President Johnson played an important role in the civil rights movement should be offensive to anyone amazing. No, on second thought, the idea that certain factions in a close race for the Democratic presidential nomination --- including some on the Republican side --- might wish to bait Sen. Obama and Sen. Clinton into a brawl over race that will damage both of them makes perfect sense.
Jim Therrien

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Sorry, but the idea that Sen. John McCain is doing well in the Republican primaries and would do well in a general election because he was "right" about the Iraq War is a bogus theory. McCain does well because he was a war hero and POW and because of his independent political makeup.
He was right about Iraq in a strategic sense only, because he saw the need for a much larger deployment of troops from the beginning but was ignored by the Bush administration. He was wrong because it was a war the U.S. did not need to fight and one that has cost us dearly in many ways and kept us from focusing on our true enemy, al-Qaida, while costing us the respect and trust of friends and detractors alike, not to mention in lives and treasure.
JIm Therrien

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What seems interesting about the decision of Sen. John Kerry to endorse Barack Obama for president is that he snubbed his former running mate, Sen. John Edwards, and Hillary Clinton. Hmmm, must be a few grudges and/or paybacks involved there. Or maybe Kerry gets a bigger momment in the limelight by being the first major endorser for Obama. Who knows? Politics itself is a strange bedfellow.

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