I agree that his gruff persona didn’t have the magic star-power to captivate the mass-media or the blogosphere. I also think that he would have been a slam-dunk, landslide victor over any shrublican candidate. Governor to Governor he would have clobbered Romney or Huckleberrybee. He doesn’t have the automatic high-negatives, albeit in small percentages, that Clinton has. And I think he has a much better grasp of geo-politics, i.e. foreign policy, than Obama.

I agree also, that he should be included in the next administration as VP or Sec State.

Edwards/Richardson???

Whenever something crops up that might be sexist, I rephrase it to pertain to race rather than gender. If it sounds racist, then the original remark was sexist.

So, what is the race version of what Edwards said? Let’s see if it might’ve been sexist using your method.

look at those people in the background for Hillary’s speech last night.

Middle schoolers?

Nah, she was just introducing her proposed cabinet. *g*

Darn! That leaves only one candidate with Mexican American credentials left in the race ;-)

Mittopia — ride the wave dude!

Isn’t Hillary’s 60 days for withdrawal of combat troops the strongest at this point?

She promises to have a plan ready and to begin withdrawal at that point. She doesn’t say how long it would take to ‘responsibly’ get out.

I find the time crunch of Super Tuesday to be the biggest obstacle to refining our candidates and getting them to promise campaign pledges, or at least bouncing the people’s input off one another and getting it on record. I would much prefer a more stretched out primary, maybe drawn from the hat a couple of states a week. An elongated regional airing would help distill particular differences, finding more common ground, forcing candidates to listen while honing the message to a solid platform.

It would be nice to see the two Senators actually authoring some legislation or backing up their words with some action in Congress. But I suspect they will be “absent” a lot.

This is obviously good news for the Republicans Gravinich.

Or maybe “Kuchavel”…”I’ll have some Kuchavel with my java, please!”