ITEMS IN THE NEWS

MSNBC's Tim Curry has an interesting essay on their website today.
Curry wonders what kind of race Democrats will have in 2008: one for the soul of the party, or one in which the candidates have to nitpick to find enough differences to get any attention.
Much like 1968, there is a war on, but without the other societal changes we went through back then, like the civil rights movement and the beginnings of the women's movement.
Much of the differences, Curry says, are "binary" in nature: New York Senator Hillary Clinton and Illinois Senator Barack Obama getting much of their money from Hollywood and Wall Street, while John Edwards is hitting a nerve with many Clinton and Obama supporters with his populist stands, particularly on globalization.
The war is another issue where there is division among the three major candidates. Obama trumps the fact he voted against it in the first place, Edwards repudiates his 2003 vote for it, and Clinton talks about what should be done next in Iraq.
Interesting takes and quotes. What are yours?
--R.J. Dickens