I know, it's been like forever. But here we are on the night of the the acceptance of the nomination to the candidacy for the office of the President of the United States of Barack Obama, the first blak candidate not only EVER in the US, but in the Western world as far as I know. Dick Durbin is introducing him. I once shook that guys hand. Asked him a hard question at the Society of International Independent Newspaper Editors Conference at which he came to speak. It was a question about the draft, 2005. After the Q/A I went into the hall, shook his hand, gave him my card. I figured: he's a good man. I dig his positions on policy, except for the draft thing (ask me), so I may as well take this opportunity to give him my card. I may never have another opportunity like this one, here in central Illinois. So I did it. No, he never called me. But I don't have to wonder if.
BTW, J. Jackson Sr. is so obviously bitter that it's painful. I wrote the man in in 1988. Seriously. And here's what I'm saying and it applies to Edwards, too: Infidelity looks like weakness. We don't want weak leaders. If you're not strong enough to keep your pants zipped, to maintain ordinary integrity, then you're not strong enough the lead the country.
Go, evolution.
