Who's name goes in the blank. This is where we as Democrats get into trouble. Too often we have too many candidates running around saying things against their opponent. This is politics. However we all know that all this does is give the eventual GOP nominee ammunition. So this time lets see if we can't rally around a candidate before Iowa. We know who wants the job. So we have a little more than a year for candidates to get together and join in a concerted effort to elect a Democratic President. We cannot withstand months of Biden saying Obama is too inexperience. Feingold will charge that Wes Clark has never run for elected office. Hillary will wait as long as possible for the field to weed out the weaker candidates. Maybe Dr. Dean can call for a presidential summit. A meeting those candidates can attend and jointly agree on a field of two or three strong representatives of the Democratic Party. Those contenders can also agree to find a way to showcase their individual strengths without making claims designed to weaken their opponent. Every time Democratic candidates weaken their opponents they strengthen their eventual Republican opponent.

This upcoming Presidential election should be conservative versus liberal election part two. We are on an upswing of liberal thinking. The neocons have shown an ugly side of conservative thinking. We must show that we can be strong leaders. We need to search the Democratice Party for just that a strong leader. For years both parties have sought strong politicians to run for President. We need leaders not politicians. We have plenty of politicians but are a little light on true leaders. Politicians show us how to win elections. Leaders show us how to be a great nation. So let the search begin.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, that the torch has been passed to a new generation

of Democrats. A new generation born after the Nixon resignation, is now ready to choose their leaders. So lets give them the best choices not all of the choices.