Former Vice President Joe Biden's list of potential running mates this year is dwindling, but Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren is still on the list, the Philadelphia Enquirer reports.
Biden, who is the Democratic Party's presumptive presidential nominee this year, has narrowed his choices down to as few as six candidates. Warren is among them, as are California Senator Kamala Harris and Susan Rice, who served as a national security advisor under former president Barack Obama.
A recent headline in The Boston Globe dubbed it "TV's best new comedy."
Columnist Scot Lehigh was referring to the Ed Markey-Joe Kennedy senatorial debates. Apparently, Lehigh failed to detect any parallels with the historic Lincoln-Douglas clashes. Of course, those contests took place long before television, and at a time when politicians were capable of stringing together more than a sentence fragment or two of coherent thought. Most importantly, the stakes were a bit higher in the lead-up to the real Civil War. The issues were weightier, concerning slavery and the Union. Today, Markey and Kennedy stoop to sparring over who can more effectively shill for money-grubbing marijuana interests.
