OK....here is my current take on the crop of Presidential candidates now taking up space on the mediasphere.... The list here is in no particular order.

JOHN EDWARDS
An opportunist who comes off as used car salesman. How can a man who pockets $55,000 to speak on the subject of poverty, spends $400 on haircuts, lives in a large mansion across from a shanty trailer park relate to the American people and their hopes and concerns? Not only that he shirks questions when he sends campaign contribution e-mails to those who have expressed their concern about his wife Elizabeth bout with terminal cancer. Then he backpedals his vote on the Iraq war to appeal to the Hate Bush/Anti-War folks.

HILLARY CLINTON
She really is the best candidate amongst the Democrats. But totally lost my respect tonight when she too backpedals on her support of the Iraq war to appeal to the Hate Bush/Anti-War folks. People like to say that she is "so intelligent," yet what has she specifically accomplished in her years in the Senate? Her health care initiative didn't fly. I don't see her as someone who would unite the American people much as President Reagan did. Then she does her own political mambo when she tonight has faint praise for President Bush for opening the door to negotiating with Iran's tyrant president Ahmadnejad saying that "it should have happened a long time ago." So does that mean Bill was wrong on his stance with Iran? Of course, my favorite Shrillery (Hitlery or Bitchery) quote is how she was poised to "pull up the carpets in the Oval Office and clean it up." I guess that she is confident that she wouldn't find some of Bill's used condoms left somehow behind.

JOHN McCAIN
Weak all around. I used to respect him but his weak stance on illegal aliens and illegal immigration shows that he is just another politician. He has gone through a lot in his life with being held captive by the Vietnamese, but he has allowed himself to be captured and be brainwashed by the Washington lobbyists and other special interests. His alliance with Senator Ted "hiccup" Kennedy is troublesome.....the very reason I will NEVER join the Democratic party. While I hold many liberal beliefs (pro labor, pro choice, pro environment), I would NEVER want to be associated with the same party as this fat, pompous, drunken murderer.

BARACK OBAMA
Another windbag whose message changes with whichever crowd he wants to appeal to at the moment. With whites, he acts "very white." Then when he has a predominantly black audience, then he suddenly becomes "black." How can anyone find this guy intelligent and other qualities which have been attached to him? What has he legislatively accomplished? Are gasoline prices under control? What about health care? He loves to listen to himself, but in the end doesn't really say anything of substance.

RUDY GUILIANI
For me he is liberal enough and is conservative enough, yet his liberal stance on illegal immigration is bothersome. He showed true leadership during the 9/11 tragedy. In fact, he makes a lot of sense in his views of how government is invasive in our lives. He deserves consideration.

BILL RICHARDSON
He shows a lot of promise. A centrist, Richardson’s many experiences in public service, including his roles as governor, energy secretary and congressman, makes him squarely qualified to be president.

RON PAUL
Ugh. Plus his name is monosyllabic. Bad.