PD article on Hackett

[OzarkDem]

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1121679066300520.xml&coll=2

Cleveland-born Hackett, who went to Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland State University's law school, is playing up his wartime duty. The 43-year-old also touts the fact that he's a gun buff and holds a state license to pack a concealed weapon. He has shown up at some campaign appearances aboard a high-chromed Harley-Davidson "Fat Boy" motorcycle.

It gets him some looks. About 80,000 of the district's 631,000 residents are veterans.

"He talks right for down here, which is a pretty conservative area," Preston said.

and..

the obligatory PD Dem slam

If he wins a special election on Aug. 2 -- and odds are strong that he won't -- Hackett would become the first Iraqi war veteran to be sent to Congress.

[Kolesar]

1. If Paul Hackett had "huevos"

He would take a position that we should withdraw from Iraq.

[MeDeMax]

2. he was against the war

before we went in, once we were in, he signed up to serve.

The man doesn't shirk when duty calls but also doesn't get caught up in idiotology (idiotic ideology) that we should support the war even if it turned out to be a mistake.

He is running in probably THE most repub district in Ohio.