If the x factor in this election is the latino vote, and Richardson can help with that, or someone else can help with that, it's a viable direction.

I like Richardson, but there's already trouble for him in vetting with rumors of inappropriate lecherous comments to women - lots and lots of smoke, no fire. However, if nominated, I am sure some matches will be lit.

The idea of Nunn is infuriating and unbelievable. If there's anyone whose on the shelf way past his sell-by date, it's that self-righteous stick.

Why not Edwards?

It still works then. Because Obama "stole" the nomination from Hillary, right?

Okay, first I'm agreeing with Tankard, now this.

Any "Serenity" fans out there? Remember the scene in "the Hero of Canton" when Simon Tam says "this must be what going mad feels like" after seeing the statute of Jayne? Right there with him.

Fortunately, Desi restored some order to the universe. Thanks, Des.

Do we get to eat what we kill?

I also love that last line, but feel I must be getting duped somehow by the author.

Agree also in large part with your generational argument, though I might be more artful in saying it! But overall, I am weary of the 'boomers running the show, and running it badly.

Anyhow, it is refreshing and touching to hear from older people who agree with Billy G, and are ready to hand the reigns over to a new generation of leadership...

I'm still waiting for the pie in the face, though.

I am Obama's age exactly.

We're both considered Boomers. Clinton is getting out of the way for Obama?

Um, yeah, whatevah.

Wow.

"My peers and I have been effectively disenfranchised for two decades by an older generation who has proven nothing but the fact that they can run the country into the ground. We're finally powerful enough to wrench the wheels from their hands and kick them into the back seat."

I hope to God this is Bizarro Day II. If not, then hey, go to it, Generation Cut & Paste. Careful with those scissors though. I think you just cut off an awful lot of legs. Oh well. Maybe you can Wiki what you lost.

Good one Billy. I don't believe you're serious. Best way to show how inane a line of thought is, is to agree, and take it one step further. Even a little bit of hyperbole works. My guess is this is very subtle satire.

Allsburg, a person, or a generation of people, doesn't get disenfranchised by being too damn lazy to vote. They get disenfranchised when they want to vote but are not allowed to or when they do vote but their vote isn't counted.

The 60's generation changed the world. More social and political change in a decade then in the prior 100 years. We made the world that could see Obama and Hillary as serious contenders for the presidency. Everything your generation takes for granted from civil rights to women's rights we made. It happened because we got of our asses and did something. I've stood on the front lines of protest movements and watched the numbers dwindle year after year. I've looked at the % of youth voting and watched it go down year after year. Lazy and apathetic is how I would characterize the post 60 generations.

I'll grant that the 60's generation might have been as apathetic as the generation that followed it if it hadn't been for the draft. The idea that you might be forced to go fight a war and maybe die there was a powerful provocation to focus one's energies. Perhaps if there was a draft today your generation might get off its lazy butt too. But what ever the reason those who were young adults in the 60's did something. Not the least was forcing the government to end the draft so your generation wouldn't have to deal with it.

Politics is not a game where people take turns. Your generation doesn't get a turn, not now, not even after everyone who was alive in the 60's is dead. You get what you've worked for and what you've earned. If you're not willing to work for it, and all that I've seen is you are not, the torch will pass from our hands to your children's. You want change you're going to have to do more then chant the words or trust obama to do it for you. You want something out of government get off your ass and work for it. Sometimes my generation might work with you for it and other times against you. May the better man of women win.

can B Glad's game be to set us up and observe our attempts at figuring out what he's up to again? as we stumble along tripping on his traps? ... while he checks that he can still put as many as ever on his particular temptingly tangential track?

clever peops need to keep the games fresh and lively; right? being bored with one's self is too dreadful to endure solely or silently ...

The "fat cat" meme is over with the Lizza article. Obama knows who the fat cats are, has them in his Rolodex, knows what they need and how to line them up. This is no populist revolution, it is an extremely efficient, planned organizational drive paying attention to all the tools available.