Big night last night for America — Barack Obama took another step toward the presidency by winning the Iowa caucuses, and, yeah, Happy Huckabee did the same. On the sports front, Kansas held on to whip Virginia Tech in the Orange Bowl. But I got the Orange Bowl score wrong, figuring Kansas had more offense in them.
As for Iowa, Hillary Clinton was “sent reeling” by her third-place finish, according to one news report. I’m not sure how much “reeling” she did — but one hopes her candidacy will now become more “real” and less “all things to all people.” (I’ve got to learn to hold off on all the quotation marks, don’t I? Had an editor who told me that a lot.) On the GOP side, Romney hasn’t said much that I’ve heard. He’s got to be feeling a bit down (if not outright reeling himself) after spending all that money just to lose out to Happy Huckabee.
I hereby dub candidate Mike Huckabee “Happy Huckabee” — because always seems like a happy guy, especially now. So, good work, Happy, now see what you can do with all those hardcore independents in New Hampshire. I have a hunch they aren’t going to be as open and receptive to your almost-evangelical-Christian nice guy candidacy. But I wish you well.
As for me, 1) I refuse to openly cheer Kansas’ Orange Bowl win because I’m from Missouri, and, 2) I continue to hope Obama and Edwards will do well for the Democrats, because I see them as electable in the national battle come November.
Ah, well, what do I know? I’m just a guy who reads the papers.
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