John Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln also had unimpressive legislative careers and were thought to be somewhat shallow but with speaking ability.

By way of comparison I watched Obama in the debates. It wasn’t inspiring. Reading a speech is one thing, but handling a debate or press conference or other think-on-your-feet situation is different. Obama is the slow-footed guy.

Hillary made some very poor choices when choosing her campaign advisors and strategy.

Yes, you would think that with her inevitability she could’ve gotten John Kerry to let her do the 2004 convention speech.

Where in the world did Kerry find Obama? Why do we have to now be stuck with another nominee who is almost identical to Kerry (Mr. Hair)?

No matter how hard they work or try, they just were not blessed with the gift.

Maybe if they had asked Deval Patrick he would have also given them the gift.

But, even moreso, it was the stolen gift of repeating things John Edwards wrote and said which was obvious earlier in the campaign.

Clinton & Obama are far from gifted thinkers. The nice voice is a fluke of nature. It hardly indicates great leadership ability.

I admire Hillary Clinton and feel somewhat badly that I’ve decided to vote for Obama in the March 4 primary. But the advisors and representatives the Clinton campaign has put forward, and the strategy, or lack of it with which they have conducted the campaign, are major reasons for my decision.

To those of us who were watching closely, it was apparent she should have been out after Iowa, after the debate when Edwards landed a clean blow to knock her out. But, those darn Diebold machines in New Hampshire seem to have saved her.

I wonder, if Obama hadn’t ‘won’ Iowa, would people favor him this way?

She’s done most of the inside political manuevering right, but that’s only going to net her 20 percent of the delegates. Most of the rest watch news channels to get their information.

The main point is that he needs to attack Bush-McCain, hard and often. It will force the thugs into making errors that will be fatal to their chances in November.

On no account should he wait until the Convention to start the campaign. No quarter!

If it was Hardball and Tweety gets 6-7 figures for doing it, why couldn’t Tweety pipe up with any of the substantive legislative history on Obama or Clinton–I mean that’s only 2 Senators, and Tweety did do a stint as one of Tip O’Neil’s top guys in the House.

I met someone with the last name Fitzhugh.

that is all.

IIRC that is a patronymic form from the French fils “son” so son of Hugh.

All of the Irish “Fitzes” descend from the Norman English nobility, sent over to tame the wild Irish.

As is the case throughout history, the Norman nobility became more Irish than the natives.

fils is pronounced “feece” so that’s plausible