She’s doing way too well in the debates. Though I saw former Bush pollster-focus grouper Frank Luntz on Hannity & Colmes demonstrating how the one that the public really identifies with is, oddly, Joe Biden.

Truly annoying though when the people I meet parrot the media’s line that Obama lacks Hillary’s experience. Exactly what experience is that?

I don’t have time at the moment to track down the article, but I read that up until now, as a senator, she sweated the small stuff, rather than take on the big bills, to build her resume.

What’s she done in foreign policy that would give her an advantage over Obama? (Somebody might have an answer to that, I’m aware.)

For the record, I’m unashamed to admit that I’m a Gravel guy.

A little nobody named Ho Chi Minh repeatedly petitioned President Harry Truman for support with achieving Vietnamese independence from France. The French had the ear of Washington and the President considered Ho Chi Minh to be of no consequence to a world power. Nor was Harry Truman alone in his assessment. President Truman’s successor thought Ho Chi Minh to be little more than a crackpot. After all, the United States had won World War II and Ho Chi Minh only played a bit part in harassing the Japanese. Besides, he was a commie.

That little mistake only squandered about 58,000 American lives and several billions of dollars – not to mention diminished American prestige in the eyes of the world as well as a divided country at home. The ghost of Vietnam still haunts the United States and is being exploited by opponents of the Iraq debacle.

Still, despite the fact that the United States twice helped the French escape from the stranglehold of their German neighbors and largely financed their lost cause in Vietnam, our drinking buddies in Paris never liked us very much. This was especially true under Charles de Gaulle even after we helped save his worthless hide.

More recently, the infamous 1983 meeting between Saddam Hussein and Donald Rumsfeld might not have occurred if the Ronald Regan’s diplomacy had consisted of more than a de facto “Enemy of the Month Club”! In a revolving door of friendships, the enemy of our enemy is not always our friend. Then, neither are those whom we choose to assist.