Posted By: John Handforth  on Tuesday, August 26, 2008

McGovern, Mondale and Dukakis were finessed out of their White House bids.

Gore, Kerry and Clinton will always claim to have had their rights and votes stolen from them.

In all honesty, the Democrats have probably not chosen a truly good candidate since Harry Truman.  Adlai Stevenson was a good, educated man, but Eisenhower was only a few years beyond having been the supreme commander of the Allied forces in Europe.  Eisenhower was a shoo-in.

Kennedy and Clinton were colorful, but they both had the benefit of the Nation wanting a change of party in the White House.  Barack Obama has that same edge, but the Democrats could have chosen better.

Jimmy Carter got the job because Gerry Ford was the only President not to be elected either as the President or Vice-President of the Nation.

America resented that fact and saw to it that he never was elected.  The Democrats could have run their National symbol and won that election, which, by the way, was the cleanest in American history.  Gerry Ford and Jimmy Carter had been friends for years and respected each other.  They shook hands and agreed not to run a negative campaign.  They both kept their word.

This election will not be that way.  I believe that both candidates have been down to the farm, gathering mud from the pigsty.  Neither candidate is the best that could have represented their party, but this race is apparently what America wanted.  It will really get interesting after John McCain announces his choice for Vice-President.