I've never seen such a crowded field for a presidential election -- and the actual election, November 2008, is still a year and a half away! Here's what comedian Argus Hamilton has to say: "Joe Biden will announce for president today following the entry by Mike Huckabee and Bill Richardson and Mitt Romney and Chris Dodd. The number keeps adding up. At the rate we're going, the election is going to be a 300 million-way tie."
(Editorial cartoon: John Branch/San Antonio Express-News)
Prediction: Clinton-Obama 2008...?
I don't mind the "crowded" field. I prefer having choices to having a media-annointed front-runner locking up the nomination before I can vote (which is what usually happens).
Now if only there was IRV, or some other way to rank your preferences, instead of voting for "electability" or other bogus concepts.
"A conspiracy of dunces" -- not a decent one in either party!
It seems the worse our problems get as a nation, the lower the quality of the elected representatives.
It's still remains true: Politicians think of only the next election (while a statesman thinks of the next generation). Politicians run for office and then for cover. At best, most of our politicians belong on house arrest.
To paraphrase, author Ian Rankin, in his novel "Blood Hunt," (Politicians) don't have consciences. They had them surgically removed to make room for cash-flow implants.
Comedians are always a hard act to follow.