As a resident of New York I have been very pleased with Senator Clintons job performance. Presidential candidate Clinton leaves a good deal to be desired. Arriving on time for events is expected of all of us she should arrive on time. The Senator also needs to change the focus of her campaign from her experience to her vision and put some stretch in that vision. The country needs to be challenged.

Goodbye Hillary, bye, bye.............

Hi Brian -

OOOOPs - when I was doing retail politics, my candidate would have been in big trouble had they not shown up on time!!  There are no excuses for that.  It's usually something simple like that which turns the voter off.  

What moves the voter is something simple like the What I learned in Kindergarten Essay:

"Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned in Kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sandbox at nursery school.

These are the things I learned: Share everything.  Play fair.  Don't hit people.  Put things back where you found them.  Clean up your own mess.  Don't take things that aren't yours.  Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.  Wash your hands before you eat.  Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.  Live a balanced life.  Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work some every day.

Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out into the world, watch for traffic, hold hands, and stick together.  Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the plastic cup.  The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.

Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the plastic cup ~ they all die.  So do we.

And then remember the book about Dick and Jane and the first word you learned, the biggest word of all:  LOOK.  Everything you need to know is in there somewhere.  The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation, ecology and politics and sane living.

Think of what a better world it would be if we all ~the whole world  had cookies and milk about 3 o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankets for a nap.  Or if we had a basic policy in our nation and other nations to always put things back where we found them and clean up our own messes.  And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together."

No matter what your age, it is good advice.

Mr. Williams,

I very much enjoy your work and am a frequent viewer of the NBC Nightly News.  I have a concern, however, and given that you are the most prominent face of the NBC News organization, I thought I would address it with you.  

In watching MSNBC's coverage of the Iowa Caucus results last week, and in seeing advertisements for MSNBC's coverage of the New Hampshire Primary results tonight, I am very upset that your network has allowed the coverage to be co-anchored by Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann.  Neither Matthews nor Olbermann have made much of an effort to hide their own political leanings.  Further, neither has made an effort (particularly in the case of Mr. Olbermann) to hide his disdain for President Bush, for the War in Iraq, and to some extent, for Republicans in general.  Assuming you wouldn't dispute this, my concern is simple: how is it appropriate or fair to have two biased (and like-minded) correspondents co-anchoring your network's election coverage?  In theory, shouldn't the coverage be anchored by someone like you who makes an effort to report the news in a neutral and unbiased fashion -- regardless of your own views on the issues, candidates, parties, etc.?  Or at the very least, shouldn't someone like Tucker Carlson (equally uninhibited in expressing his political views -- but from "the other side") be paired with either Matthews or Olbermann to balance things out?

Sincerely,

Bragg Van Antwerp
New York, NY

Dear Bill Kelly of Fairport, NY...Many of us will be glad when Senator Clinton returns all her attention on being your Senator. I was happy to see Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins pitching their considerable Hollywood clout behind John Edwards. They were standing directly behind him when NBC News cameras focused on him yesterday. These well-known actors, who hooked up while making the 1988 movie, Bull Durham, are influential actists and I trust they will continue standing behind John Edwards until his inauguration. It is the very first time I agree with what they are doing, but I commend their choice this time.

Most people assumed Hilary would be the next president.  She was at the top of nearly every poll, had money pouring in and didn't have a viable foe in the primary elections.

Now she is in second or third place in her own party she'll have to work at it to make it happen, if it will happen.  Hilary was doing a Fred Thompson - the conservatives were calling for him to enter and he thought he could come in and take the prize without lifting a finger.

The top candidates on the Democratic side are all good choices but the people should examine the candidates on their record and not personality.  Remember when bush was campaigning and said he was a Washington outsider and didn't have the experience?  Many people who voted for bush said they preferred bush over Gore because they would rather sit down with bush at the bar for a drink than with Gore.  We do need experience (as well as change) but I would rather have a leader than a buddy running the country.

Mike is too religious for my liking.  All we have to do is look at the Middle East and how religion is involved in politics as a forecast as a possible future for this country.  And the religious right want to have more religion as a basis for running the United States.  John is looking good.  Mitt came across as too arrogant
when he tried to buy the election using his own money instead of public funds.

Hilary was given a free ride up to now and I hope she starts fighting back because I see the media giving Barack the free ride only because he is on the top of the polls.  

With Hilary slugging it out with the others at the top we may see the true character of the top runners, something we won't see if the media holds the crown over the head of the one who is highest in the poll at the time.

Speaking one more time about showing up on time...I loved the comments from Cheshire, CT, with quotes from "What I Learned In Kindergarten."

There are interesting quotes about some mysertiously lost billing records showing up in the White House after two years of searching for them. Go to Google and enter:
once upon a time in arkansas: Rose Law Firm Billing Records

Brian,
I would really like to know what Obama has actually done that make people think he has any experience that would make him capable of being president?  From all the newscasts that I have seen, and we watch nightly news every night, as well as hardball on a regular basis, no one has done an indepth of what or why he should be president except he is educated, a junior senator, and can speak.  I would really like to have a show on what he has done.

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