Well, it looks like John Kerry has the democratic nomination all locked up for himself. Which is a good thing. I think he’s the man to face 2nd Lt. Bush. In fact, he may epitomize the one thing that Bush has been avoiding for thirty years: a Vietnam veteran.

As someone who grew up in the sixties and felt, obliquely and with a child’s understanding, the broken-heartedness of the Vietnam time, it seems strange but fitting to me that the generation that dropped out has grown up. The torch has been passed, hasn’t it?

When they came home and stepped off the busses and planes, many of them were met with derision and scorn. What a bad dream for America. But now one of those soldiers has viable intentions for the White House. It’s beautiful, if you think about it.