Romney: he’s a Mormon. while this should be a non-issue, it raises eyebrows and therefore raises ratings.

Huckabee: He’s come in from nowhere and is offering to be the nation’s “pastor in chief” which draws all sorts of controversy.

Giuliani: He was “America’s mayor” and is/was a common household name.

Clinton: She’s not only a woman, she’s a Clinton. The list of controversies and drama is endless.

Obama: he’s black, possibly Muslim, used hard drugs, is wholly inexperienced… Again, the list of drama and controversy goes on and on.

Edwards: He’s disgustingly rich and living the life of uber-luxury, yet parades himself as the hero of the impoverished. Lots of drama. Lots of expensive haircuts.

Then you have people like Biden and Thompson. There’s no dirt. No controversy. No drama. They have solid positions, solid policy and are running solid campaigns… But there’s no real story there. There’s nothing to spark drama or controversy.

It makes you wonder what sort of person we’re supposed to be electing. Are we electing somebody “interesting” to the media, or are we electing the best person for the job?

On the dem side, I think the Joe Biden’s approach was right on par with Fred’s response, which impressed me quite a bit. While I am definately not a democrat, I think that Biden is the best choice on their side. Sadly he is being buried by the media (much like Fred) because he isn’t one of their choices.

I thought that this was a unique opportunity to expose the various candidates to a real-world breaking scenario and see how they would react to it. You can use hypothetical situations to reveal foreign policy issues all you want during a campaign, but a real event that demands an immediate and not contrived response stands to paint a drastically different picture.

What really amused me, though, was that Clinton did exactly what you would expect her to do.. Not only by trying to capitalize on it, but demanding an international “probe” (a’la ever useful UN methods?) and bad mouthed Musharff before all of the facts were even in. Do the dems do anything other than launch hollow investigations and bad mouth people??

I don’t care what anybody thinks about Benazir Bhutto, this was a true woman of courage. She returned to her country knowing that her life was in danger and she did it unflinchingly. This was a woman running a campaign on her beliefs and ideals. She did not hide behind anyone, and it cost her her life.

Meanwhile we have a supposed woman of courage running for the presidency of the United States of America who is running on her husband’s ideals and beliefs. She is hiding behind her husband, running on his record. And now trying to capitalize on the tragic death of another woman.

You tell me, who is the real woman of honor here?

hmm, lemme think about that for a minute. Got it. Bhutto. Hillary couldn’t even take being criticized in a debate by a bunch of rich males.