Gareth, a long time ago I voted for Lyndon Johnson because Goldwater sounded like a radical warmonger.

The joke was on me. And the rest of the country. Johnson used the Tonkin Gulf incident, which did not happen, to get us deeply into that Vietnam mess. A damned lie, as outrageous as any of Bush's. Since then my custom has been, generally, to wish a plague on both their houses.

But Lyndon's damned lie does not excuse George's. And Lyndon's good civil rights deeds do not excuse his own misdeeds.

This isn't a game. I don't support any man because he wears my team's colors.

No matter what they tell you, son, it's the man, not the uniform.

clint