Is Mo Dowd crazy?

Absolutely true. Almost nobody had heard of Obama before the 2004 convention.

 

I was gonna say Warner-Schweitzer could be the ticket in 2012 (if Obama loses) or 2016 (if Obama wins).

 

I've said it before on this board, but Schweitzer is fabulous. He has a speaking gig at the convention this year. I heard him on the radio last week saying he's going to wear jeans and a bolo tie.

 

I've had the biggest crush on Schweitzer since he burst onto the Montana political scene in the governor's race a few years back. I'd love to go hunting with the man, and I don't even really hunt.

 

One of my son's good friends from college works for Schweitzer. The man is a genuine hot shit, and you don't get many of those in politics of any ideology.

 

I'm sure this board will be a Schweitzer lovefest in four years when he runs against Hillary and then whoever McCain's VP is.

 

Mizzou, that could happen. Probably not, but it could. I think Hillary's time has come and gone. Not for personal or ideology reasons, just the passage of time. If you lose a race in 2008 because a thin plurality of voters thought rightly or wrongly you were back-dated, there will only be more voters who feel that way in 2012. In 2012, there will be voters who don't remember the Clinton presidency. For my son, who's 23, it's pretty vague.

 

I'm glad everyone is so convinced what's going to happen in 2012 when we don't even know what's going to happen in 2008 yet.

 

Um ... Hillary is 60 now and will turn 65 in October 2012. How old was your St. Ronnie when he beat Mondale?

 

That could be a big help to Mo. She obviously needs a good screwing.

 

Different for guys. I'm not saying I agree with that, but there it is.

 

If by "different" you mean that women outlive men by an average of 6 years in this country (79/73); or that men suffer "cognitive impairment" as they age at nearly double the rate of women, then yes, I'm in complete agreement.


* http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/healthday/2008/07/28/rates-of-mild-cognitive-impairment-higher-than.html

Men were almost twice as likely to develop mild cognitive impairment compared with women, Petersen's team notes.