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OUTTA SIGHT! [PART ONE] The Winnowing of the Candidates By John W. Cassell Where have all the candidates gone…short time passing? This is my attempt at an answer to the question “where has the spontaneity gone” asked earlier. This is where it gets tricky, folks. This is the part we never see. They don’t cast any blinking, blinding bright lights on THIS process…no music and special effects psychologically calculated to bring a human being to the point of joyful tears, no matter WHAT is going on at the podium. This is where both the spontaneity went and the real power...

"Always look on the bright side," my dear Irish grandma used to tell me. Well forty years later I finally gave it a try...and she was right! **************** For awhile there we had the dumbest three people ever running for president. We're down to two as one of the two dumbest got axed. Small comfort though. There was a time when nitwits as candidates meant they were being controlled by unseen forces. I only WISH that were true now. Unseen forces were at least smart enough to remain in the background...content to get results. Usually they were men used to...