Baggage Claim Number 4 blogged the annual NARAL dinner, and the speeches of each of the current Democratic hopefuls for the 2004 presidential election, at length.
The bottom line: only Al Sharpton wowed anyone, really. Howard Dean's heart was in the right place for the crowd. The rest? Ahem.
Al Sharpton carries a lot of baggage, from the whole Tawana Brawley fiasco to his connections to fight promoter Don King and the boxing world. He is not, in current political terms, a viable candidate for President (at least not for the Democratic nomination for President). But he can act as a spoiler, and influence the overall debate.
Considering the mealy-mouthed horde of losers that pass the Democratic party's litmus test for viability who are also in the race, that is cold comfort.
Somehow, I don't see Joe Lieberman doing a whole lot to reverse the erosion of the bill of rights that John Ashcroft . The rest…well, Dean is at least interesting in that he's unknown. Edwards is fresh meat from the same locker that we fetched the last couple of Democratic hopefuls from. The rest? Fuggedaboudit.
Looks like I'll be writing in the Zinn/Chomsky ticket again, folks. (Now that Phil Berrigan has left us for a better place.)
Sean M. Gallagher 