Hilliary Clinton & Brett Favre

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The top two stories of the day are that Hilliary Clinton is the new comeback kid and that the greatest quarterback in the history of the National Football League, Brett Favre, has retired.

First, Hilliary beat the odds and won the Texas and Ohio primaries. This means that the battle between Clinton and Obama rages on. The latest delegate count is Obama 1451, Clinton 1376. Either one can still win the nomination. Why did Hilliary have a super Tuesday? According to reports that I've read or heard those that had the economy as the number one concern on their list voted for Clinton, seniors voted for Clinton (health care?), those that had experience in the top three concerns voted for Clinton, and Rush Limbaugh supporters voted for Clinton. Rush Limbaugh? Yes, on a recent radio show the bombastic one encouraged GOP members to vote in open primaries for Clinton because she is "hated by half the country and if she is the candidate the GOP has a better chance to win." With John McCain having already sewn up the GOP nomination it looks that the GOP may be able to recover some of their followers by being able to campaign against the Democrats instead of each other while the Dems are battling each other.
I do think this campaign has been way to long already and think that something should be done to limit presidential campaigns to six months tops.

Second, after seventeen years Brett Favre has decided to retire. I saw Brett Favre play his rookie year when he was with the Atlanta Falcons. Favre was drafted in the second round by the Falcons and then the next year traded to Green Bay for a first round draft choice. In Favre's first year a freind was head of The Oregon Dome Team, an organization that was formed to attempt to bring an NFL franchise to Portland. As part of the process an exhibition scrimmage was scheduled here between the Seattle Seahawks and The Falcons. My brother and I watched this young man on the sidelines throwing the football seventy to eighty yards on a line and never miss his target. The young man was Brett Favre. Favre played seventeen total years, sixteen with the Green Bay Packers. He was more than a football player, he was real. Fans went through more than football with him. There was the day his dad died and that night on Monday Night Football Favre played to honor his dad and played perhaps his greatest game ever. Then there was the game after it was announced that his wife had breast cancer and was undergoing chemo. The camera went down to the sidelines to show Favre, he had taken his helmet off. His head was shaved in support of his wife who lost her hair during chemo. His wife is doing well and from some reports is in remission. Thank you Brett Favre for your career for sharing your life with us. You will be missed for more than football.

May this be a day filled with love and laughter for all of you.

Bill