"Fan" is your characterization. But I do think she is tougher than he is, and she has been through the fire once on health care and, I believe, would have been more forceful both there and with the banks. I voted for Bill twice, but was not as disgusted with him after '94 as I have been this last several months with Obama. At least under him and without supermajorities the democrats passed tax increases on the rich.  And, honestly, I did not appreciate just what a disaster NAFTA would be. I am no fan of Mark Penn. I do like James Carville. Were there any pro-labor law firms in Arkansas in the '70s?

By the way, my father helped organize and was the first president of a local of the Operating Engineers in the oilfields of northern Oklahoma in the mid '50s. But I left Oklahoma in 1963 and didn't return, even to visit,  until 1991. When I moved to Arkansas in Jan. 2006 I had not been here since 1954, when I visited the homestead and farm where my paternal grandmother had been born and raised in the Boston Mountains in Washington County, western Arkansas. I spent my adult life in Arizona and Los Angeles. Most of the contractors for whom I worked in Los Angeles were union contractors and though engineering was a non-union position, the hourneyman electronics tech set the floor for engineering positions, so I do know something about unions and consider them a great plus, faults notwithstanding.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."