Random thoughts...

...on a slow news day.

If you came of political age during, say, the Clinton administration, your political analysis may lack a certain perspective. Some history is best learned from by living through it. Conversely, if you came of political age before that, you may have learned some lessons from history that are best forgotten. Things change.

If you always refer to Democrats and the Democratic Party in the third person, you are part of the problem. Time's come to choose up sides.

Bill Clinton was undoubtedly the best political candidate of my lifetime. Let's face it, though, he really wasn't such great shakes in office. Whatever you think John Kerry's failings as a candidate may have been (and there certainly were some this time around), I supported him because I though he'd be the best President of my lifetime. So, is our challenge to find better candidates, or to find a way to get better officials elected?

It's true that after four decades as a majority party in Congress, Democrats have struggled with the minority role during the last ten years. Still, they seem to be better at being the minority than the Republicans are at handling the majority. We're probably holding the tentflaps a little too wide open in some ways, but their tent is tiny and collapsing. My bet is that they won't last two decades in power, and when we get it back it will be for at least another four.

Or maybe it's just a turkey hangover...