To the Editor:

Re “Clinton Enters ’08 Field, Fueling Race for Money” (front page, Jan. 21):

Now that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has finally announced, one week after Senator Barack Obama, the presidential primaries bode to be more fun and more interesting than the general election to come.

The possibility of Mrs. Clinton, who could become the first woman to be nominated for president by a major party, squaring off against a charismatic and popular African-American seeking to become the first black president—in a field broad enough to include a variety of socially sensitive icons with urgent messages of their own (John Edwards on poverty, plus Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Christopher J. Dodd, among others)—offers the promise of a contest of ideas that will be exciting, edifying and instructive, raising the electoral process to new heights of democratic vitality.

Meyer Rangell
Lake Worth, Fla., Jan. 21, 2007

Note from KBJ: Snow White and the seven dwarfs.