The Story

Kathie Obradovich, or as we call her Old Bromide, tries to provide cover for Christie Vilsack as she ducks her stand on the issues.

Christie Vilsack takes care in answers

In Old Bromide's tale, Vilsack compares herself to Mark Twain.

The only thing that Vilsack has in common with Twain is that their writings have been considered racist.

And the scientific community is united in that fact.

In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.  - Autobiography of Mark Twain