As an Edwards supporter in mourning, I need to figure out who to support in my caucuses next week in Colorado.  I am at a loss - I like both Hillary and Obama, and I see weaknesses is both.  So, I appeal to their knowledgeable supporters here to answer a question about each of them.  Really it is the same question:  what is campaigning and what is the core person?  How will this candidate be as a president, rather than as a campaigner?  But it looks a little different in each case.

This week's The Nation has a fascinating and illuminating article about Hillary Clinton.  I was just thinking about her because of that diary a few days ago the suggested we be careful of people (I'll call them FUD purveyors, for Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) who tell us we should fear and repudiate certain articulate leaders (Dean, Chavez, Galloway) based on ill-defined and unsupported attacks.

Well, I think Hillary is another one.  I would argue that it behooves us all to take another look at her, with full skepticism about the stereotypes imposed on her by the FUD purveyors.  I am not arguing that HRC should be our presidential nominee - I'm not sure she is even my favorite at this point.  But I do want to argue that we should make our decisions about her based on what she is really like and not what we've been told she is like.

My paralegal, who was my employee for five years, has left, and so I had to hire another paralegal.  I see a lot of people here who are looking for jobs, so I thought people here might appreciate the thought process from the employer's side.  I justify this as political because a horrible job report just came out.  :-)