It's interesting, but at the same time scary, all of the Democrats who are throwing their hats into the ring two years out. The Republicans are holding their tongues for a while, because of the train-wreck that is happening in Washington before our eyes. That is probably going to be good for them, and is something the Democrats would have done well to observe. Bush is only going to get worse, and as his own worst enemy now, there is nothing Democrats can do that will make him look worse. So why spend the politcal capital before they need to? Why become a hackneyed candidate, a joke, over the next year? They should try to stay fresh and come in strong next year.

I am sorry that there is apparently no strategy to nurture and pool talent and not use the shotgun approach to the 2009 election. Throw out a bunch of candidates and see who can survive two years in rough waters. Geez.

The political threads are starting here. I'm an ardent liberal Democrat, but I'm not interested in two years of watching these folks in the bare knuckled slugfest to come. So I probably won't be participating in the political threads. Full disclosure--I will state that while I like Obama, he's a young man and has little experience. He should have waited a few years to gain more experience instead of letting everyone push him into this idiocy now. Hillary has been around for a while and will pace herself, as will Edwards. I wish Gore would run, but he won't. The others are there for the crumbs. I'll probably feel the same in two-years, so I'm not going to get crazy about it now.

SRS