Speaking of politics, Howard Dean was on the Today show this morning and I actually got to see his entire interview. I like him. He�s my second choice (plus, he actually has a chance of winning, whereas I don�t honestly think Kucinich has a chance in hell). He seems to be a real straight-shooter; no bull-shit. He�s on the cover of the new Time and Newsweek, so you can read all about him. I like that he�s an actual alternative to Bush, too, whereas I consider Kerry, Lieberman, Gephardt et al to really be Bush-Lite.

I�ve been spending the morning touting the merits of Howard Dean to Barbara. You�d think I were working on his campaign, rather then Kucinich�s. Dean is my second choice (and as I said above, I think he has a much better chance of winning then does Kucinich), I just agree with Kucinich on more issues so my heart lies with him right now. However, I think Barbara would be more of a Dean person and I want to steer her away from that stinkin� Kerry.

By the way, it should be noted that one issue on which I disagree with Kucinich (the only issue I have come across, thus far) is Iraq. He wants our troops to withdraw immediately. This is not realistic and would spell disaster not only for Iraq but for us, down the line. Dean was against the war, but says (like I do) that now that we�re there we have to work with NATO and the UN and do this right. He thinks the same about Afghanistan. No more working with Warlords who were at one time working with Al Qaeda (which is what Bush is doing) I want peace too and don�t want our guys pegged off one by one, either, but we�re already there � we can�t abandon those people. We did that before, in Afghanistan, and we pissed off one hell of a lot of people, including Osama Bin Laden (remember him?). We trained Osama, if you�ll recall. We helped him and his people boot Russia out of their country. We made promises that we would help them rebuild in the aftermath. And then we abandoned them. And we made a lot of enemies in the process.

And as an addendum to a previous rant, let me just say that I am very glad we now have at least a small peacekeeping unit on the ground in Liberia. I still feel we are unable to put our troops where our mouth is because of the issues I ranted about previously, but better something than nothing I guess.

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Oh and by the way - I got my personal e-mail access back, at work. Yay!

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