Monday, February 04, 2008

Thoughts About Stuff

Well, look at this. It's the first national poll that shows Barack Obama ahead of Hillary Clinton in the Democratic contest for the nomination. (Albeit in a statistical dead-heat.) Wow.

I'm thinking about all of this in a new way . . . this next President will, most likely, be in office until Maia is ten years old, thanks to our little habit of re-electing our first term Presidents. So who is it that I want to be in office for the first decade of Maia's life?? Who inspires me, who do I hope is the person whom Maia remembers as her first President?

(For me, it was Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. Ick.)

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