As much as individual presidential candidates want to talk about their awesome plans for health care or great personal values, we are electing a WAR PRESIDENT--a president inheriting AT LEAST TWO wars and the costs of those wars will not end even if he or she began bringing home every soldier, marine, and/or airman the day he or she enters office.

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I found this photo and wept because my husband is going to Iraq for fifteen months and I know this could be me. On any given day, out of 455 (minimum that he will be gone), someone could come to my door and make me a widow. I look at this woman and I can barely breathe.

I personally love Hillary Clinton. I always have. I interned for her office when she was the First Lady. I think she is intellectually powerful, politically astute, and personally resilient.

That being said, I realize that for reasons I will probably never understand, a lot of people really dislike her (even hate her). Hillary comes with baggage… a lot of baggage. Her name recognition is her greatest asset as well as her greatest weakness, and the same can be said of her husband (who, of course, I also love).

Bobby Kennedy, in 1968, said the following about that year's presidential election: "[T]his is a year of choice -- a year when we choose not simply who will lead us, but where we wish to be led; the country we want for ourselves -- and the kind we want for our children. If in this year of choice we fashion new politics out of old illusions, we insure for ourselves nothing but crises for the future -- and we bequeath to our children the bitter harvest of those crises."

Supporting Senator Joe Biden is truly a labor of love.

He is an underdog for the Democratic party nomination. (Which is, of course, a testament to the diversity of our party that the old white guys are the underdogs on the Presidential ticket.)