Know your candidate..

This week, the Isthmus ran a story on the Democratic presidential candidates. By now, the only surprises are to be found in the answers to the question “What little known fact can you tell us about this candidate?”

Here are some revealing tidbits:

John Kerry: he windsurfs.
Dick Gephardt: he loves baseball and at one time had hopes of becoming a professional baseball player. [how all-American!]
Howard Dean: he requested African American roommates while in college at Yale. [would that be so that he could say “some of my best friends are..” ?]
John Edwards: he was the first person in his family to go to college.
Dennis Kucinich: he’s a vegan. [he might as well just close the campaign door for good with that one]
Al Sharpton: he married a James Brown back-up singer.
Wesley Clark: At 59, he has only 5% body fat. [that’s a mean one to hurl at a nation that has most people at 95% body fat]
Joe Lieberman: as a college student, he took a month off to help blacks register to vote in Mississippi. [I think that came up as the little known fact last time he ran..]