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Most readers seem to have enjoyed yesterday’s riff at the expense of out-going House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt. A few, though, thought I was either unfair or premature in counting him out of the presidential running.

I should be honest that I come to this question with certain preconceptions. People are always telling me how Gephardt is a logical contender for the nomination in 2004. And I am always confidently — though, I guess, perhaps wrongly — telling them there is simply no way that’s ever going to happen.

Why this is impossible exactly is a little hard to say. But I’ve always thought it was a little like that whole thing with nothing being able to go faster than light. Precisely why it can’t happen is a little difficult to explain. And to really understand it you need to know various complex formulas and math tricks. But even if you can’t quite get your head around it that doesn’t change the fact that the fundamental laws of the universe say it can’t happen.

Same with Gephardt.

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