It’s the horrible political system, in my view, Frannie. I’m flattered by your interest in my opinion on the subject. I love that young man from Puhahou. My son is part Hawaiian and graduated from Kamehameha School, the other truly great private school in Honolulu. If I had started having kids at the age barry’s mom did (that’s what he was called in high school) Barak i would have sons and/or daughters his age. I’ve donated to his campaign. I made personal contact with them at the time, and conditioned any further donations to his willingness to pledge to accept the vp position should he not prevail in his quest and should it be offered to him, and to pledge to offer the vp position if the tables were turned. I also donated to Sen clinton at the time and sent similar email messages- asking for a pledge that she would accept the vp position, and also pledge to offer it to obama if she became the runner up. Obama’s campaign acknowledged my question to their credit, but ducked the question. I did not hear from the Clinton folks. I did not hold it against either campaign, but I made no further donations to either, but have strongly supported Hillary and now believe the OBAMA candidacy is doomed (see post on the last page I put there 1/2 hour ago. I’ve made dozens of calls for Hillary and met Chelsey and personally presented her with two lovely lei and gave her Garrison Keillor’s poem collection, Good Poems for Hard Times. (it’s not as depressing as it sounds.) Bill Moyers interviewed the author of a book that sounds wonderful about our undemocratic electoral system. Here’s the amazon website: http://www.amazon.com/Our-Undemocratic-Constitution-People-Correct/dp/01…

No. What I SAID was, this is what I think and you think what YOU think and we can’t settle this amongst ourselves (and believe me we’ve all worked REALLY hard at it over these past few weeks,) so….let’s finish the game the way it’s played. Actually, it used to be that the conventions were where the candidates were selected. So let’s play it out.