TD,

Some pols are cut out for the fight. Some have the stomach. HRC has it and I have to concede Billy Boy has it.

Kerry, Mondale, Dukakis, McGovern and Gore were all decent, honorable men. They were not, however, given to soiling themselves adequately enough to cross that ‘threshold’ you alluded to yesterday.

If you’re from the Left and you want to win the Big Oval, you have have moxie. If you’re from the Right, however, you only need demonstrate ‘charm.’

It would appear Obama can get down and dirty, it remains to be seen, however, if he will.

The playing field is NOT ‘equal.’ But knowing that, we can’t complain.

Kerry, Kennedy, Biden, Clinton, Obama and McCain all fail to see that the single largest internal problem that stalks this country are the Government Contractors (GC’s) that have long term contracts with the American people to provide tens of billions of US dollars to provide contracted services and yet daily seek to find ways to convert those contracts into their corporate net revenue by doing as little as possible for as much as possible for as few Americans as possible including our wounded and disabled military personnel.

As a nation we need to rein in the government contractors who receive every tax dollar paid by citizens with reported incomes from $1 to $100,000 a year. If we want tax reform in the US, we’ll need to look at what is being paid out to the GC’s and what are we getting in return.