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If the leadership of the Clinton Administration was so great, why did Al Gore lose the election to George Bush?

Barack praised Bill Clinton for his leadership early in his speech in Denver. He then chastised the Bush Administration for not having followed bin Laden to the cave in which "he lives," claiming John McCain's approach would be the same.

Last I checked, Bill Clinton was the guy who dropped the ball on having the trigger pulled when it came down to the business of killing the man who ultimately is responsible for the greatest attack on America.

p>Barack may win the race for The White House. Still, I'm betting the words of one of our Founding Fathers will come to the fore of the collective realizations of all Americans soon thereafter: "The majority are not always right." br> -- Michael S. Smith II br> Charleston, South Carolina /p>

Hubris leads to Ate which in turn leads to Nemesis, but in ground zero of the Obama nation people seem heedless of this bit of Greek wisdom (although they do take to Greek architecture, I suppose).

In the nation at large mere mortals don't yet know who their next president will be, but in Hyde Park the debate which rages concerns something far in the future: where Mr. Obama's presidential library is to be located.

The Hyde Park Herald (August 20) recently published a small sample of residents' ideas on the subject. I will spare you them but I think one is particularly noteworthy because of the degree to which the person is besotted:

"...a library is thinking a bit on the small side. My vision is a complex that includes everything a community needs to ensure that any child can be given the tools necessary to become whatever their dreams lead them to. This complex will at least...include a head start program, a preschool, a parent learning center, an elementary school, a middle school, a high school, adequate physical and sports education facilities, a Presidential library (of course), an adult continuing education center and other such dream achievement facilities. The jobs, contracts, and other associated business opportunities that would go into planning, building, opening and running this great new place of hope would go first to the people in the community that it directly serves and it would be administered with the best evidence based practices that science and social services know. The idea is big, the possibilities endless."

p>Another person suggests the conversion of an abandoned church. Yes, that might do. br> -- Michel Santaquilani

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