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Presidential pickings The deadline has passed and the candidates for Alabama's Feb. 5 presidential primary are in place. The hard job for voters will be to decide who they really want to vote for...or perhaps, against. Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich didn't make the ballot. He's one of the long-shot Democrats and the only one who has ever seen a UFO, or at least admits to it. Rep. Kucinich is a strange one but so are a lot of the other Democratic and Republican candidates. At any rate, here's your choices on the Democratic ballot: Former First Lady and New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, Connecticut Sen. Charles Dodd, Deleware Sen. Joe Biden, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama and former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards. Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel, like Rep. Kucinich, failed to qualify in Alabama. Gee, we didn't know he was running. On the GOP side, you have the well-knows: Former New York Mayor Rudy Guiliani, Arizona Sen. John McCain, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson. Lesser knowns include Texas Rep. Ron Paul and Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo. They are on the ballot too along with conservative commentator Alan Keyes and Alabamian Hugh Cort, a Birmingham physician. Alabama leaders had hoped to make the state a significant player in determing party nominees by moving up the state's presidential primary. But then, so did virtually every other state in the union. In the end, we'll have no greater significance than we ever had. So don't wait for Hillary, Obama, Rudy or Mitt or any of the others to come calling. They will probably be going elsewhere.
But we still must select candidates to support and vote for. It isn't a job to envy, that's for sure.
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