Kristol and Reminders
May 11th, 2008Bill Kristol made an interesting prediction today: Dick Gephardt for Vice President of the United States. It’s been written recently that John Kerry wanted Gephardt but changed his mind at the last minute, although it has also been written that Kerry wanted Dick Durbin to be Vice President, too, and changed his mind when he decided that he couldn’t run with a fellow Catholic for fear of a backlash against the ticket. I must say that I think Gephardt would be a fine choice for the political balance he would bring to the ticket, but Michael Dukakis chose Lloyd Bentsen to add more traditional liberalism to the ticket and an older figure with foreign policy credentials, and we see what that got him. Obama will sink or swim on his own merits, but Gephardt might help safeguard the Midwest from Republican intervention so he is worth a long look.
An old friend from the Chicago Debate League looked me up on Facebook recently and sent me a note saying, “I was actually reminded of you by an assignment for school. We’re reading some of the Federalist papers in my humanities class and I remembered the first time I had ever heard someone discuss them was when you spoke about them in a debate speech.” There’s very little I like more than contact with old friends, especially those that I held in high regard. I hate losing touch with people.
It has been a time-consuming weekend. Now I’m just relaxing with the film “Forrest Gump,” on TBS. I can’t begin to tell you how much I love that movie.