John Edwards is criticizing Barack Obama for not having enough experience to be president.

Barack Obama is saying Edwards and Hillary need to explain their support for the Iraq war resolution.

Watch the three of them take each other down . . .

while Gore stands off on the sidelines, ready to ride in on his white horse. There's little they can say against him. He has been right on all the issues from the beginning.

Run, Al, run!

Put those three in a ring and I'll buy front row seats. It would be the fight of the century. One where no one wins.

Exactly. And meanwhile, they clear the way for Gore to step in.

It's almost too perfect. I keep thinking about that snippet from the recent Boston Globe article: (Boston Globe.com)

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EM, the Boston Globe article is what I was alluding to in regard to Al widening the door a bit. :clap:

Oh, shoot, Nicholus. I was hoping you had other sources for that info! It'd be nice to hear this from more than one place. Confirmation, you know. Oh well!

I know. Unfortunately, I have no special inroads into the Gore camp nor should I. We can only pray that it is true. However, if we all look at the multitude of articles written in the past month, the scenario of Al parachuting in after the current poll leaders, Obama, Clinton, and Edwards begin to lose their collective luster seems quite plausible don't you think?

It would be the shrewdest political move of this and any century in American politics! I already have my popcorn for the Oscars. I hope that the Academy gives him a noteworthy place on national television to accept the award. A photo-op not even Mike Deaver could have dreamed!

If it happens, my popcorn will be washed down with a bottle of DOM! I love the taste of champagne!

Hopefully we'll be popping a lot of corks all across the country before too long, Nicholus . . . when Gore makes the announcement that he's in! :clap:

I bet that Al is considering a run again and that he in fact is going to wait for the pack so to speak to thin a bit. And let them go at each other to do it. I think he has thought this all along and is why he won't rush to a announcement at this time. But on the other hand he can not afford to wait too long either. I still think we will know one way or the other come around Memorial Day. Just a gut feeling I have had for months.

This is an announcement for an upcoming lecture next week as part of the Dean's lecture series for graduating students at Vanderbilt University. Read the last paragraph carefully and then tell me what the tea leaves say, if anything. It's being given by John Geer and Roy Neel.



"Looking into a Crystal Ball: Forecasting the 2008 Presidential Election"

1:30 - 2:30 p.m.
103 Wilson Hall

Professor of political science John Geer is among Vanderbilt's most popular - and most demanding - professors. He is editor of one of the most prestigious scholarly journals in political science, The Journal of Politics , and has published more than 25 articles as well as 5 books on presidential politics, including From Tea Leaves to Opinion Polls and In Defense of Negativity: Attacks Ads in Presidential Campaigns. Geer regularly provides commentary on politics, including live nation wide interviews for FOX, CNN, NBC, CBS, and ABC. His teaching has earned him a number of awards at Vanderbilt, including the "Squirrel Award" for best male teacher on campus and the 2005 Jeffrey Nordhaus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.

Roy Neel is an adjunct professor of political science at Vanderbilt University. He served as Howard Dean's campaign manager during the final weeks of Dean's presidential campaign in 2002. Formerly, he was Vice President Al Gore's chief of staff.