G98, I got the reference. I just couldn't pass up the python line. It was in bad taste and I should hae, though. I'm on my ipod more these days, so it's tough to flesh the comments out.
My point was more that his constituency sent him back decade after decade, and most of the paeans to him make it sound like a lifetime in the senate without being able to be president amounts to the curse of Tantalus.
Should have fleshed it out or not have posted.
