As I have been saying, annoyingly to some, for close to three years, candidate Barack Obama has worked tirelessly to perfect the art of triangulation which, ironically, was so successfully introduced and extensively practiced by the spouse of his current arch-rival, Hillary Clinton.

Who says irony's dead?

Voting "present" on potentially contentious legislation is, to me, a kind of triangulation. Obama's penchant for being "present" on crucial votes is one thing that causes me pause in selecting him as my nominee.

Well, that, and his evident contempt for the accomplishments of people in my age cohort--it's not a generation, per se; too few years, only about 15, 1945-'60--on many of whose shoulders (and bodies) he now stands to heap his scornful and dismissive rhetoric. The movements: anti-war, environmental, womens' rights, gay rights, civil rights, conservationist. Excesses, he calls them. Causes he's not 'tied to?"

Excessive? Consume excrement and expire, my pandering 'friend'...