The real news in the Dem news

There is a wacky scene in Disney's 1951 Alice in Wonderland, at the Mad Hatter's tea party, where the March Hare repeatedly offers Alice a cup of tea but pulls it out of her hands just as she is about to drink it.

The press may be forgiven if it feels a little like Alice after last night's re-announcement of the lineup of Democratic candidates for this year's primary.

Remember that the lineup was announced in last Friday's Ledger ("Plainfield Democrats switch allegiance"), with a note that the formal announcement would come on Monday AT CITY HALL.

ALL THE NEWS WAS ALREADY OUT OF THE BOX -- the dumping of Mapp for Van Blake and granting Carter and Storch the line.

So what was to come out for on Monday -- except maybe a photo opp?

Unless the change of venue to DEM PARTY HEADQUARTERS was the news?

The reason for the venue change heard in the street was that it seemed to the powers-that-be that a partisan political announcement at City Hall was somehow inappropriate.

To which PT says, "Who cares?"

There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands
That lift and drop a question on your plate;
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea.

-- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. T. S. Eliot, 1917.

-- Dan Damon

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