We’re having a genuine blizzard here. It’s a Level Two, soon to be a Level Three (I don’t really know what the levels mean) and so we’re all closing everything up. They’re making fun of me in this office because we have the county emergency services agency/sheriff across the street and last time there was a Level Three they called me and told me to go home.
Me, specifically: “go home.” I didn’t know whether to feel cared for or picked on.
This time I looked out the window and I saw it coming so that’s progress.
We talked about this possibility in a primary (well, I did) former Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer so how about this?
If he weren’t the nation’s oldest governor, a ripe 75, Jerry Brown would automatically be counted among serious Democratic candidates for president in 2016.
He boasts a household name, an impressive list of accomplishments in the country’s most populous state — a state some once deemed ungovernable — glowing national media coverage and a deep familiarity with the pitfalls and rigors of a White House bid, having run three times before.
Now, some are pushing Brown to consider another try for the White House, even if it means taking on Hillary Rodham Clinton, the prohibitive, if still undeclared, Democratic favorite.
Asked if Brown would categorically rule out another presidential bid in 2016, a spokesman, Jim Evans, referred to a statement Brown made in May at a California Chamber of Commerce breakfast. Citing his past primary victories, Brown said “time is kind of running out on that.”
“I guess I’ll just have to stay and do the work of being the governor, which I actually enjoy because I have some perspective that I didn’t used to have,” Brown said.
The famously Delphic governor often leaves people guessing about his motivation and intentions, which leaves plenty of leeway ahead of 2016. Absent a clear-cut statement of disinterest from Brown — who sought the White House in 1976, 1980 and 1992 — some see familiar signs of a presidential-candidate-in-waiting.
He’s old, sure, but what are the other objections?
Or, you can talk about the weather or anything else.