Reply #38: Hi, 1corona4u. Those palm trees! I see on the weather charts that half

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the Great Plains is under snow and ice, with the Great Lakes region next in line.

And then you put up those palm trees.

Nice to see you this afternoon on the boards.

A close cousin, the adult son of a now passed on Indiana delegate to the Mondale, Carter, and Clinton conventions, thinks it should be either Edwards or Biden, and preferably both.

This is my closest cousin -- one of 2 or 3 who showed me a lot of ropes. I was taken out to pound yardsigns in people's yards, and nail them up on telephone poles, then later came the envelope stuffing and phone-bank work.

So I have trusted his comments and instincts a long time. He and I volunteered in much younger years for Robert F. Kennedy's victory in the 1968 Indiana primary.

Iowa Democrats are going to get a whole-hog blast of Biden, Obama, Edwards, Clinton, Richardson, Gravel, Kucinich, and Dodd in the next 3-4 weeks.

I think the ground is shifting big time and that Biden's shot at the first three slots in Iowa is for real.