I agree with the last post by McGrath. ( I am hoping the "Mc" is not an abbreviation.) My view is that the upcoming election is possibly a choice between good and evil, and it is certainly a choice between something better than evil and evil. I think that some members of the Democratic National Committee, including its chairman, have behaved badly,that this bad behavior has been damaging, and that it would be a mistake for the nominee of the party to connive at this bad behavior. AS for the distractions, I hated civics class and so haven't a clue about the relationship between the Democratic Party and its committee. I liked English though and was pretty careful to check up on the pronunciations of words I encountered for the first time. The language changes, but mostly my strange pronunciations were at one time correct. I don't think I have ever spoken "gratia" (GRAY shi uh) but I have said "incognito" (in COG ni toe) and "caveat" (CAVE E ot), and I have found that hardly anyone is happy with my way of saying these words.