[Republican Challenger]

Wrong, Carnac! No book deal. I am a working newspaper journalist, with a byline in The New Hampshire Gazette (www.nhgazette.com), the oldest newspaper in America and the one that gave Samuel Adams his first byline. I'm pretty proud of that affiliation.

[Swordmaker]

I am a working newspaper journalist, with a byline in The New Hampshire Gazette (www.nhgazette.com), the oldest newspaper in America and the one that gave Samuel Adams his first byline. I'm pretty proud of that affiliation.

I once had an office in the Sacramento Union Building and sat at the same desk that Samuel Clemons used... but that does not imbue me with any of his talents or writing abilties. That affiliation did not bestow upon me any laurels or kudos. It did not change me.

In addition, my 10th great grandfather was the first English Governor of Massachusetts and the founder of Salem. That fact along with a dollar and a half MIGHT buy me a cup of coffee. What it does NOT do is create in me any guilt for his sins or benefits from his good deeds; a fact that seems to escape you vis-a-vis Prescott Bush and our current president.

Your vaunted New Hampshire Gazette is a bi-weekly with 7000 subscribers. Whoop-de-do!

Just because John Adams once had his name on an article in that august periodical does not bestow upon YOU the mantle of his presidential greatness... unless, perhaps, like Hilary's communing with the spirit of Eleanor Roosevelt, you have been channeling old Samuel?