after watching those is the poem from Wings of Desire.

"Als das Kind Kind war,
ging es mit hängenden Armen,
wollte der Bach sei ein Fluß,
der Fluß sei ein Strom,
und diese Pfütze das Meer"

(English:
"When the child was a child
It walked with its arms swinging,
wanted the brook to be a river,
the river to be a torrent,
and this puddle to be the sea.)

And, from another part of the poem:

English:
"When the child was a child,
It was the time for these questions:
Why am I me, and why not you?
Why am I here, and why not there?
When did time begin, and where does space end?
Is life under the sun not just a dream?
Is what I see and hear and smell
not just an illusion of a world before the world?
Given the facts of evil and people.
does evil really exist?
How can it be that I, who I am,
didn't exist before I came to be,
and that, someday, I, who I am,
will no longer be who I am?"

Cool, the first existentialist candidate!

See inexperience and lack of experienced team above then.

I remember a conversation I had with Rob Portman before Cheney was chosen as Bush's running mate.  He was an advisor to the search and he seemed really high on Tommy Thompson. Then again, Rob Portman WILL be on a ticket at some point ... though probably as a VP candidate initially.

Unfortunately until the new congress begins we're still stuck with the one that ratified the San Diego election. The new Dem congress doesn't begin until January.

Every vote...what was that phrase again?...something about every ten thousand votes? Or was it every one hundred...I don't know but we'll set up a committee and get back to you.

I know people are zeroing in and hitting Kerry for not giving enough to the DCCC but maybe he's giving in other ways because he doesn't see the DCCC giving the money where he thinks it should be going...like to second or third wave and emerging races.

OH 02 could fall...closely. Wulsin is fine and Schmidt is insane.