The problem is the process. We’ve got this long drawn out primary and caucus garbage that gets us no where but to bed earlier each night. It lasts from early January until June a total of six months. And there was a total of 10 months of campaigning before the voting even started.

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I saw Dan Webster this morning on television, waving thank you signs with children from his campaign that were having a good time, and playing nearby. It was a fitting final image of a political effort that turned away, from the hostility that you saw in almost every other race.

Newt Gingrich, the Randy Moss of politics. He has proven himself to be a great political player in years past, but has begun taking plays off when he’s not feeling it. He has a book to sell, an image to maintain, and can’t be bogged down with things like running an effective campaign. Some thought he might bring back the Newt dynasty of the 90’s, but he has turned his campaign over to owners who put ticket sales over a championship-quality team. He still has enough left in him to debate, but a few blunders have already cost him the season.

Now the real flaws in the Obama campaign had begun to emerge. Obama was put on the defensive and stayed there. Obama himself began to look desperate as he attacked Sarah; a first in U.S. politics.

He stated that “Brown systematically blocked, and personally blocked, political reform. I think that he is a desperate politician and I just do not believe him.” He makes the excellent point that Brown is only interested in electoral reform in a very belated way as he sees him self going through the exit door on the 6th May and Clegg’s party who want and need electoral reform could possibly extend to him a slim lifeline of remaining in power if they formed a coalition..

There was great rivalry between Mathison and the Russian N. Strunikoff, who won the World and European titles on two occasions, but I think that Mathison was the more reliable skater and all in all the better athlete.

At the second meeting of the N.S.A. on May 1st, 1880, again held at the Guildhall, Cambridge, Mr. Townley raised the question of the definition of an amateur which vexed topic has been under discussion ever since.