Dear Senator Clinton:
Like most Democrats, I went into the Primary season assuming that you would be the nominee for President. I was eager to see how the dust and feathers would fly because I was interested in hearing what you had to say more than anything else. That’s just how we get the press interested in hearing the message, after all. Being Democrats, a little family fight is just the way we get ourselves worked up for the real thing.
It’s the day after President’s Day, the strange little wannabee holiday that fills in the space between Dr. King Day and Memorial Day. It’s a good time to reflect on leadership and what it means, and that’s the kind of mail I’ve been getting lately.
“Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.”
In February, it is customary to put up images of Dr. George Washington Carver in our schools as part of Black History Month. Most people see his earnest and humble stare coming from the cheerful posters and think, “Oh, the peanut guy.” But he was much more than that, perhaps even the greatest scientist who ever lived. Black or white.
Many people have been asking very good questions about the Democratic Primaries. Sadly, I don’t have any good answers – but I can give a few really lousy ones.
The economy is on the minds of many Americans right now, which is the polite way of saying that things are pretty lousy. We’ve never seen a Fed cut the prime rate as much as 1.25 in eight days before, so we all have to wonder what the policy makers know that we don’t.
Things aren’t bad everywhere, however. We have only to look to our South to see a land of great opportunity developing. Way South, in fact, to the diverse and vibrant land known collectively as Latin America.
Barataria - The work of Erik Hare 