What Stood Out This Week - 11/18-11/24

Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John Edwards all sent me Happy Thanksgiving email messages, which was very thoughtful of them. I can't say that I read the messages in their entireties, but I'm guessing that they're thankful for my support. So What Stood Out This Week was the candidates' presumptuousness.

By the way, Mike Huckabee is just a few percentage points behind Mitt Romney in Iowa. Iowa's caucuses are in about five weeks. Huckabee is a kind, amiable evangelical, and it turns out that the evangelicals rather like that quality. Now if the Christian Right would just get in line with the Economic Right, they might actually have a nominee. Mitt? Rudy? Fred? Actually, they might still not have a proper front runner.

All the Democrats are in Iowa as well. To hear the New York Times tell it, both parties' candidates are all just eating their way into voters' hearts. It's downright rude to turn down food. And we all remember what happened when the kinder, gentler George Bush announced that he hated broccoli. If you don't remember, the broccoli lobby got upset and said the president was encouraging bad eating habits in our kids, i.e. George Bush hates kids.

And seriously, that's about all I got. I was too busy eating a fine Thanksgiving meal to pay attention to politics. And everyone's in Iowa. I'm not.

That's What Stood Out This Week.