August is turning out to be quite an exhilarating month for lovers of the public affairs scene.
The Aug. 6 Republican debate in Cleveland in which Donald Trump's bravo performance dismantled his competion, apparently gave a shot in the arm to Democrats vying for the White House.
Hillary Clinton, who lost her first-ever poll Aug. 12 to insurgent 73-year-old Bernie Sanders along with withering attacks from Republicans over her emails, may now receive a challenge from Vice President Joe Biden.
On Aug. 22, Biden huddled with progressive icon Elizabeth Warren, who on Aug. 21 said of the campaign, "I don't think anyone has been anointed."
Word comes today that Biden hired Kate Bedingfield, who was spokesperson for John Edwards' 2008 presidential campaign, as communications director. The new hire makes things very interesting.
Sanders is powered by large energetic audiences in both blue and red states. A potential bid by the emotional Biden bid may in part be inspired by the recent death of son, Beau.
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The election, of course, is eons away. Clinton enjoys a huge competitive advantage over her challengers in terms of money and national organization.
The problem for Hillary: Is her heart in the race?
Speaking of winning a lot of hearts, a 15-year-old Iowa high school student is polling at nine percent in North Carolina as an independent presidential candidate called "Deez Nuts."
Young Nuts is polling eight percent in Minnesota and seven percent in Iowa, which is a testament to the lack of support for the crowd of pretenders running for the GOP.
If Nuts achieves anything, it would be to shame Rick Santorum, Rand Paul, Jim Gilmore, Chris Christie, Bobby Jindal, George Pataki, Rick Perry, Lindsey Graham etc. from the race.
The politicos who run the GOP must be secretly rooting for Nuts and dreaming that he'd challenge the Trumpster to a one-on-one debate.
But the nuttiest event of August: the New York Mets are in first place in the National League East, a healthy five games ahead of the Washington Nationals, a team that was expected to run away with the division and play in the World Series.
Let's Go Joe! Let's Go Nuts! Let's Go Mets!
The ridiculously high prices Americans are paying at the supermarket might influence how—or if—they vote in November.
At a moment in history when there are so many conflicts among peoples here and abroad, let us put our differences aside and celebrate this wonderful season in a spirit of togetherness.
The news announcing the death of Henry Kissinger, the last of the prevaricating politicians and so-called statesmen who stole my future and that of thousands of other young Americans, got me thinking about Walter Cronkite.
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