Excellent points, Fionn.

Most politicans are poll driven and just tailor their campaigns to the whims of the electorate. And that's the main reason that I like, and like LadyJean, will be working for Howard Dean this year. He stepped out and went against the polls. That's what *leaders* do. And they try not to let the media frame their campaigns around *squabbles* and *personal* stuff but hammer, hammer and hammer in issues. Look at the way the media is handling Dean's campaign right now. It's trying it's darndest to frame it around the supposed riff between Dean and Clark when if you were to hear Howard dean talk for one hour all you'd hear were his ideas about how to *lead* the country to a more civilized place...

Some would argue that George Bush is *leading* bu8t I see it more like *ordering* under the vile of being branded un-patriotic. This is not leadership and under Bush you cant's say that he hasn't kept his promise to change the tone in Washington! Think Joe McCarthy here...

Bobert