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• Thursday, January 24, 2008 12:02 AM

  Campaigning is Theater. Governing is different work.

  It's important to remember that campaigning is very different from governing. Campaigning for elections, in this country, is quite the media circus. From the debates, to the talking heads on TV, to the numerous articles like the ones on Salon and in every publication, they goad the candidates about the most ridiculous things. And the candidates get pulled in. They end up looking pretty distorted. Howard Dean said it well when he described it as theater. And he ought to know. The media did everything they could to make him look crazy. And they succeeded. Even when he lost the Iowa caucuses, he was 20 points ahead in NH until they played that "scream" 900 times on T.V.

  Governing is something else. I think that any of the Dem candidates would work hard to get the country back on track and would make a positive difference. I already voted for Obama absentee. I would love an Obama/Edwards ticket. But I'd vote for Hillary if she were the nominee, although I do not believe she'd win.

  I think at this time it's important for us to be pragmatic, because there is too much suffering going on in this country and the rest of the world to get too caught up in the emotional drama that our news media thrives on.

  —RedhairedGrrrl Read RedhairedGrrrl's other letters
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