The answer my friend is...

Many Things

By Jim Flanagan

(Updated: Wednesday, May 07, 2008, 6:21 PM)

Blowin' in the wind

How many years will it take to simplify the primary election system? We have one general election date for the whole nation. We have 50 umpteen primaries and caucuses, most on different days. And the politicians who plan these elections don't seem to worry about the humble taxpayers paying for them. They certainly don't ask us. And I think the word "fiduciary" has disappeared from their vocabulary, if it ever was there in the first place. Why can't we have just one primary election for the whole nation? Probably too radical. So, like you eat an elephant, one bite at a time, how about at least starting with only four regional primaries? That has been talked about. When? Like the old folk song, the answer is blowin' in the wind.

TV commercials

Have you seen the latest Ford commercial on TV? They claim that now their technology has gotten as good as Toyota's. How does that sit with the owners of older Fords and dealers with used Fords on their lots? The commercial, thank you, has just shot the heck out of the value of those vehicles. I have always wondered about those commercials that shoot the company in the foot and certainly do nothing to sell the product. And yet the companies pay oodles of cash for the ads and for the ads to run on TV. I think I am in the wrong business.

Clinton vs. Obama

Now, understand, I am a life-long Republican. And, like McCain, I'm just pleased that the other two keeping shooting each other, and therefore their own party. And Hillary will hang in there until the convention. If it was anyone else, especially since most of the negatives come from her and her husband, the Demos would have shut her down long ago. But Clinton power is too much for them and will be too much for them, no matter how their primary turns out. Just my opinion.