DUELING DIVAS

A PSYCHOLOGIST CLASSIFIED PERSONALITIES INTO 4 GROUPS: POPULAR SANGUINES, POWERFUL CHOLERICS, PERFECT MELANCHOLICS AND PEACEFUL PHLEGMATICS. QUITE OBVIOUSLY, A PERFECTLY SAD SACK OR A NON-AGRESSIVE COUCH POTATO DOES NOT QUALIFY FOR LEADERSHIP. BUT...CHEERFUL, HOPEFUL, PASSIONATE, POPULAR, POWERFUL, ARGUMENTATIVE TYPES OFTEN DO. WHAT IN THIS PSYCHOLOGIST'S VIEW MAKES THE BEST LEADER? THE POWERFUL, CHOLERIC SANGUINE. ALSO, THIS PSYCHOLOGIST OBSERVES THAT IN TODAY'S KU KLUX KLAN, ALL FOUR PERSONALITY TYPES WORK TOGETHER TO FORM A UNITED ORGANIZATION WITH AN APPEALING FRONT. EVEN THOUGH 70 YEARS AGO THE KLAN TOTALED 3 MILLION AND TODAY ONLY A FEW THOUSAND, IT REMAINS CONSCIOUS OF ITS IMAGE BY FORGOING THE USE OF THE 'N' WORD.

IN WHAT ONCE WAS THE 'LAND OF THE KLAN,' THE SOUTH, IN SELMA, ALABAMA, THIS SUNDAY, TWO DIVAS DUEL FOR ATTENTION, DESPERATE FOR DISTINCTION AS A RESULT OF THEIR MESSAGE AND PERSONALITIES. TO WHOM DO I REFER?

HELLARY CLINTON AND BARAK OBAMA - WITHIN A SIREN'S SONG OF EACH OTHER -ATTENDED SEPARATE CHURCHES TO DELIVER SEPARATE BUT EQUALITY POLITICALLY MOTIVATED MESSAGES ABOUT FREEDOM AND THE MARCH FOR CIVIL RIGHTS HELD IN TOWN OVER FORTY YEARS AGO BY DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. WHO EMERGES AS THE BEST LEADER? THE POWERFUL, PASSIONATE HOPE FOR THE 2008 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

THE KLAN TREMBLES, HELLARY DISSEMBLES, BUT THE STAGE IS ONLY LARGE ENOUGH TO ACCOMMODATE ONE DOOFUS MASQUERADING AS A DIVA - OR IS IT THE OTHER WAY AROUND?