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/p> p> As usual Jackie and Raoul do not waste any words while stating the obvious so much better than most. How did we indeed end up with these two "duds" competing for the nomination of one of our major parties? How indeed although to be truthful or factual the other contenders (Dodd, Edwards, Richardson etc)were certainly no better. It has been way too long since the Democrats had worthy even if often wrong candidates competing in the arena of ideas. It seems to me that Scoop Jackson was the last Democratic Party candidate that the voters could really respect. That is an awfully long time ago in this generation of instant gratification. I try not to be pessimistic for too long a time but William Kristol's father Irving was no doubt correct when he wrote in the WSJ in the seventies that the culture war was over and we had lost. At the time as the father of two young sons I struggled to disagree with him but in retrospect he was more right than wrong. Mr. Kristol also in a regrettably neglected book Two Cheers for Capitalism wrote that corporate officers did not deserve the monstrous salary and bonus packages they were being paid because they were not risk takers or entrepreneurs but really just talented employees or bureaucrats who should be paid good salaries but not more. Viewing this idea today it seems obvious. br> -- Jack Wheatley br> Royal Oak, Michigan /p> p> Ah-h, make that three duds. br> -- Roger Ross br> Tomahawk, Wisconsin /p>

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