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• A hard look at death

• On the job experience

• Lodi pastor Leanne Wade finds a response to the dead goats found on church lawn

• Murders down, suicides up in San Joaquin County

• Regional Roundup

• Corrections

November 2nd, 2009

• Deputies name suspect in fatal Acampo shooting

November 6th, 2009

• Short sales make up nearly half of Lodi market

• Regional Roundup

• Lodi man accused of smuggling drugs, weapons for inmates at state prison

• 'I-5 Strangler' sentenced to 6 terms of life

• Jury convicts Acampo man of torture, assault of his girlfriend

• Young girl is 200,000th person to assemble AIDS, HIV care kit

• Woman in wheelchair struck by car

November 5th, 2009

• San Joaquin County considers moratorium on new Williamson Act contracts

• Speakers address Lodi Unified School District budget shortfalls, plea to keep programs

• Armed robbers still targeting Lodi shops

• Regional Roundup

• California voters have final say over $11 billion water bond

• Paul Tebbel shines spotlight on sandhill cranes

• Your complete guide to Sandhill Crane Festival

• David Diskin is first to give an invocation under new city of Lodi policy

• Man wanted in Acampo homicide gives up to San Joaquin County Sheriff's detectives

• Weekend bus service to continue until Lodi City Council makes decision

• A lower Lodi Lake

• Streetside scarecrows

November 4th, 2009

• San Joaquin County sues state over prison hospital planned for Stockton

• California sends Democratic loyalist John Garamendi to Congress

• Candle fire

• Rep. Jerry McNerney sets telephone town hall for Thursday

• Jason Behrmann is unanimously named Galt's city manager

• Regional Roundup

• Lodi City Council weighs raising fares to restore some bus service

• Bicycling father raising awareness of teen suicide

• Galt City Council argues over ordinance hiring residents

• Big win for Allen Baroni in reclamation election

November 3rd, 2009

• Clarification

• Correction

• Galt considers ordinance that would require city contractors to hire locally

• Regional Roundup

• Have you seen a missing guide dog puppy in Lodi?

• Jason Behrmann is top candidate for Galt city manager

• Deputies name suspect in fatal Acampo shooting

• 500 attend service for Kyle Coumas

• Galt man dies after weekend Highway 12 crash

November 2nd, 2009

• 27-year-old man shot to death Saturday night in front of Acampo home

• Public Meetings

• Correction

• Kyle Coumas funeral today

• Regional Roundup

• Group investigates reports of haunting

• Sandhill Cranes Festival comes to Lodi next weekend

• Lamborghini lovers gather for show, fine wine, luncheon in Woodbridge

• Lodi's 'Biggest Loser' Christy Richesin runs 5K Halloween race

• Downtown Lodi trick or treat

October 31st, 2009

• Izzy Laviola and Seth Siddle-Mitchell crowned Tokay homecoming queen and king

• Tokay High evacuation

• Finishing touches on Hill House replica

• Regional Roundup

• Lodi-area Halloween events

• Lodi a reflection of Halloween's retail emergence

• Area schools have no plans of closing due to H1N1 virus

• In remembrance of Kyle Coumas

• Gated communities in Lodi

• City of Lodi settles case of mistaken identity

October 30th, 2009

• Officials hope new Highway 12 stoplight will make road safer

• Red Ribbon Week

• Logbook

• Roundup of Lodi-area Halloween events

• Lockeford soldier Kyle Coumas' funeral set for Monday

• Lodi sales tax revenue less than expected

• Regional Roundup

• Local reaction to economic growth

• Get an early start trick-or-treating in Downtown Lodi

• When there's something strange ...

• Stockton breaks ground on Delta Water Supply Project

• Possible extention of first-time homebuyer tax credit?

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Does Hillary Clinton mean what she says?

As most of us remember, Hillary Clinton ran the now-infamous advertisement during her failed bid for the presidency where she asked whether or not then-candidate Obama would be able to handle the "3 a.m. call."

The purpose of that commercial was to demonstrate that it was she, not Obama, who had the requisite experience to adequately respond to a crisis while at the same time wiping the sleep out of her eyes. No doubt then she believed he was not up to the task.

Recently however, when queried as to whether she had changed her mind in the scant seven months since then, now Secretary of State Clinton responded, "The president in his public actions and demeanor, and certainly in private with me and with the national security team, has been strong, thoughtful, decisive," she said on ABC's This Week. "I think he is doing a terrific job. And it's an honor to serve with him" (www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/07/obama-answered-clinton-says).

Whether or not she really believes this is clearly something worthy of debate, but I would rather focus on her carefully statement that " ... it's an honor to serve 'with' him." (Emphasis added.) As I've always believed, none of these people utter anything without careful consideration to how they come across (except for Joe Biden, of course).

I submit that things are not as warm and fuzzy between the Secretary of State and the President of the United States as she might want us to believe. The president's cabinet works "for" him, not "with" him. This is an important distinction because I cannot fathom that Mrs. Clinton has gotten over not becoming the 44th President of the United States — not by a long shot.

Her inability to simply state that " ... it's an honor to serve him" is as nearly impossible for her as it was for The Fonz to admit he was "wrong." And since nothing substantive has occurred since Inauguration Day that would have Clinton (nor anyone else) change her mind about that wake-up call, she's secretly hoping that a call of that magnitude never occurs.

For me, if and when that call does come, I do hope he's up to the task. Unfortunately, I still have my doubts.

Jerome Kinderman
Lodi