Voters face a large and dismal field

Cleveland Plain Dealer - by Kevin O'Brien - Feb. 21, 2007 (Opinion)
Election Day 2008 is still almost two years away, and yet we've got all sorts of campaigns announced and under way.

And when you look at the field assembled so far, one rather stunning fact asserts itself: There will be a 44th president of the United States.

Yes, my fellow Americans, 20 months hence we will elect the 30th president since Southern secession reputedly prompted James Buchanan to lament, "I am the last president of the ... More »