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I closed yesterday's entry by saying that I would comment on Hillary Clinton's interview on "The O'Reilly Factor" over the last two evenings.

The best way to describe it, charming.  Hillary Clinton was warm and engaging with Bill O'Reilly, something many find hard to do.  I give a lot of credit to O'Reilly on this as well.

My only complaint, and I e-mailed O'Reilly to share this, the interview was too short.  He was unable to dig deeper on a LOT of issues with her.  I think that left too many things unanswered to my satisfaction.  Her stance on "Sanctuary Cities" was a bit confused.  I think there was a confusion over the term...sort of like the cappacino machine.

Here was the biggest thing, I could slam her on her answers, but I will not.  She answered most all of his questions to my satisfaction, I just disagreed with her on most of the answers.

Next week, O'Reilly has John McCain on the show.  I hope that Barack Obama has the guts to appear.  If he does not go on with Bill O'Reilly, I think that is a reflection on his ability to confront tough issues.  And if he cannot take on Bill O'Reilly, do we want him taking on Mahmood Ahmedinijad?

Many do not like Bill O'Reilly's personality.  I think of him as a hard news version of Jim Rome.  I do not care for Jim Rome, but he is a DAMN good interviewer.  Same for O'Reilly, damn good interviewer, except I like O'Reilly.

And now, I have a little more respect for Hillary Clinton for appearing, for too little time and a little too late, with Bill O'Reilly.

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This morning I learned from ESPN that Chris Lofton, former guard for the Tennessee Volunteers, learned that he had cancer in March 2007.  

The story goes like this, following Tennessee's win over Long Beach State (sorry Roger...), Chris Lofton was selected for the post game drug test.  The test flagged as a positive, so further testing was done.  Along the way, the learned that testicular cancer caused the false positive.  

He had surgery and treatments at the University of Tennessee Medical Center in secret.  His name was never put on the boards and only a few people knew he was there.

He played his senior season at Tennessee.  Many wondered why his shot was off a bit early in the season.  I was one of them.  I am proud to say that I was not critical of him as some were, but I was concerned over how he lost his shot.

Well, he got his shot back.  Tennessee won 31 games this season and a lot of that was due to his leadership on and off the court. 

He is cancer free and hopefully he will get to continue with his basketball career in that quagmire of pot-smokers known as the NBA.  

If he does, that MIGHT actually be enough to get me to watch a game again.

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The Kentucky Derby is tomorrow.  I picked 50-1 long shot, I think the LONGEST of the long shots, Big Truck.  I liked the name.

No, I am not placing any bets.  

I have not been to a horse race in about 16 years or so.  I did get to visit Churchill Downs last year, so that was cool.

I will probably watch the race.  Not like it is a BIG time commitment.

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Check out www.PresidentialBlogWatch.com to get your fix of what is being said in the blogosphere about the three VIABLE candidates.  Sorry, Bob Barr, Ron Paul and others. 

My friend Bob Wilson put this together.  It is interesting.  Lots of people who write about the campaign that ARE NUTTIER THAN ME!!!!

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Have a GREAT weekend.  Add your comments.