Sep

15

woefully unkempt blog no more

Filed Under Barack Obama, Chris Dodd, Politics, fred thompson, hillary clinton, john mccain, living history | Leave a Comment

Too much time has passed since my last post. I plan to remedy that - especially now that things are heating up - if only just a little. So, two topics…Fred Thompson and Barack Obama.

First let me say that Fred Thompson’s late announcement was so unsurprising that I’d hardly call it an announcement. I’m intrigued by his high ratings within the GOP, and I’d love to see a basically non-fundraising candidate do well, but I just think he’s too far behind the big money candidates in his party. It will be interesting to see if his lackadaisical approach is effective.

I’m on disk three of Barack’s The Audacity of Hope. My first thought is that I’m not bored. I’ve even laughed out loud a couple times - which is something I did not do with any of John McCain’s books or Hillary Clinton’s book. I’m not quite ready to jump on the Barack bandwagon, but I like what he had to say in 2005, when this book was written. I also liked what he had to say on The Daily Show. I think if he paired up with one of the senior statesmen like Chris Dodd or Joe Biden, we’d have a pretty good ticket on the Dem side.

Anyone reading anything good?