Some fellow named Mike Gravel is running for President. That’s all right, plenty of people write in their own names.

Gravel is upset that he’s been excluded from some debate or other. He charges that, “By denying me the same opportunity afforded to other presidential candidates to discuss in public debate the major issues that confront our nation, the sponsoring media outlets––CNN, The Manchester Union Leader and the Hearst-owned WMUR-TV––are exercising censorship, unbecoming in a free society. They are dictating whose political voice they will permit New Hampshire and American citizens to hear.”

Gravel is lower than gravel. The former cab driver, railroad brakeman and soldier should have gotten a better education at Columbia, perhaps in constitutional law instead of economics. Then he’d realize that none of the MSM outlets he excoriates are public property. They are businesses and, as such, are reliant on the bottom line.

Gravel doesn’t meet their needs.

He doesn’t meet our needs, either. His lone and sole accomplishment in government is a filibuster.

That ought to tell you which side of the cooperation fence he grazes on.

Gravel is said to be, according to his bio, a lecturer. He ought to be lectured on what it takes to be President. This out of touch, aged rebel missed the sensibility boat a long time ago, probably around 1964, a year after he was elected to the House, when his brain turned to oatmeal. With books “published” such as Citizen Power (Citizen Kane was already taken) and Jobs and More Jobs, Gravel comes across like a frustrated union local boss more than a senator.

Not that there’s much difference, either in frustration or talent.

The degree of Gravel’s importance to the 2008 campaign is well summed up by Google. Searching for Gravel brings up first this relevant link. Senator Obama, on the other hand, delivers a donate.barackobama.com URL.

See you when I need to re-do my driveway, Mike, you out of touch, unpatriotic, spend-happy creep. Like the national sales tax in lieu of income tax, though.

Gravel’s humorous bio is here, though it doesn’t say he’s a Democrat. It doesn’t say he’s a communist either, or a Taliban burkha-wearer, so we’ll hold our opinion until some more feces come out of his campaign.

Digger’s Realm is covering the Lozano vs City of Hazleton, Pennsylvania case. DR alludes to the core of current immigration debate: is enforcement of immigration policy only a federal issue when the impact of immigration is at the state and local governmental levels?

If it is an exclusively federal issue, then what does the federal government do to support state and local institutions (hospitals, police and fire departments, DMVs) that deal with illegal immigrants on a day to day basis as much as the federal government (USBP, ICE)?

Hazleton has much larger implications for immigration reform than it’s motley crew of minor politicians and simpering ACLU lawyers probably think.