Third-party choices looking good

There has been a lot of weeping and gnashing of teeth over the earmarks added to the Wall Street-save-me-I'm-rich bill. All the earmarks are called pork. These screamers seem to forget that the bailout bill was the pork of all pork.

We can't have a national health bill. We can't support programs to make a college education affordable. We can't help the home owners facing foreclosure. That would be socialism.

But let Wall Street thieves, dopes and the new Mafia get in trouble, and we must maintain the financial system. We will take socialism when it is to our benefit, but to heck with the great unwashed that doesn't know what is what.

Both parties have dirty hands in this mess. Third party candidates are starting to look pretty darn good.

The only bright spot in all this is that soon we will lose our current president.

Take heart, Crawford.

Tim Baldwin

Glendale Heights