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Mardi Gras and presidential politics come to head Feb. 5 The Christmas and New Year's holidays are hardly over and now we run headlong into Mardi Gras and a presidential primary to boot. Mardi Gras is early because Easter is early, on March 23. Some confusing formula ties the two together and we won't attempt to explain it here. The first parade of the season is this coming Saturday when the Krewe De La Dauphine kick up their heels on Dauphin Island. The Mardi Gras season will come to a head on Fat Tuesday, Feb. 5 which is also Alabama's presidential primary voting day. Mobile and Baldwin counties wanted to change the date but legislators were determined that the state would get some attention from the candidates with an early primary. The problem is, other states were determined to do the same thing and now 23 states will be holding primaries on what has become "Super Duper Tuesday." The early primary voting may decide Democratic and Republican candidates earlier than ever. We are not impressed with the candidates of either party. Hillary Clinton is running because she is married to former President Clinton. She's also a U.S. senator but there's a handful of those boring folks running in both parties, as well as a couple of congressmen. We don't vote or not vote for someone based on their religious orientation, but we'll note that Sen. Barack Obama, a Democrat, is a Muslim and Massachusetts Republican Gov. Mitt Romney a Mormon. That's the first time we have had strong contenders for the top office of these faiths. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is also a Baptist minister and appealing to the GOP's Religious Right. John Edwards is a former U.S. senator who was the Democrats' VP nominee in 2004. He's a trial lawyer and sounds like one as he advocates taking on big business and special interest lobbyists in D.C. Fred Thompson of Tennessee is a former GOP U.S. senator. We've heard the bit actor quit the Senate because it was too much work. Does he think the presidency an easier job? Can't decide? Neither can we. Maybe it'll be better if we all just partied on Fat Tuesday and forgot about presidential politics.
- Jim Cox
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