I apologize for the dearth of posts in the past week. Things have been hectic at work and I haven't had an opportunity to write. School is going decently overall. I had to kick two kids out in the space of 3 minutes yesterday, but it put me in a good mood afterwards.
I finished the section of my book on General McClellan and now I'm on to "Fighting Joe" Hooker. I'm only a few pages into the chapter, but it's really remarkable so far. The author opens by making comparisons between him and Ulysses S. Grant. He shows how the two of them were so similar in terms of resume and accomplishment as of early 1863, but how Hooker was ultimately a failure as the top general, while Grant won the War. His point was that, for Lincoln, and other chief executives at the time, picking good generals was often a roll of the dice. He provides some examples to back up his point. I will have to think it over though before I pass judgment, though.
Btw, I am not posting extensively on the Kerry fiasco. If that's enough to make anyone vote Republican in this election, then you have tapioca pudding for brains. And that's me being nice. Anyway, I encourage people to post more comments! I'm curious what everyone thinks...provided we have readers left :(
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I have a hard time believing that Kerry would actually disparage the troops on purpose ... But if he had just said "you end up in charge of the mess in Iraq" instead of "you end up in Iraq," the last week would have been more plesant.
*pleasant
Oh, no doubt. I completely agree that he was directing it at Bush, not at the troops.
The right wing nut jobs have managed to turn it against him. Well, hopefully most of them will be out of a job very soon...
How are polls looking in the VA and MD races...?
"How are polls looking in the VA and MD races...?"
Dems will win the Senate and Governor's race in MD?
Jim Webb the Dem is slipping. :-(
We need somone in charge of publicity for this blog. The traffic has been decreasing!
Wait, you wrote your second to last post as a question...does it look only questionable that the Dems will win those two seats?
Any takers on handling publicity...? I'll try, but perhaps we can make it a team effort :)
I wrote "Dems will win the Senate and Governor's race in MD?"
I meant that as a comment. I used the wrong puncuation. Dems will win those races in MD.
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